I’m in Canada, when I order pizza for my family of 3 it comes out to like $65+ with tax and delivery, it’s insane. Took them to burger king the other day, we got 3 meals and a couple of apple turnovers and it came out to $50+, shit is insane.
YOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lung@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tfw burger king costs same as sit down
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah man, sit downs have doubled in price too. I took them to a sit down place a few months back and it came out to like $150
Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Just prepare your own food at this point?..
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I generally order only when I can’t. Like when the day has been a hectic disaster, it’s 20 minutes from dinner, I haven’t had a chance to go to the store or cook, and the kids gotta eat.
pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Yeah. During the pandemic I realized fuck eating out. Why is the main public activity going to a fucking restaurant anyway? We need more museums. Like, lots more.
I will say tho, fast food salads (pick up not delivery) are worth it. I bought a $25 salad from a deli chain & said this is too expensive. So next week I spent $20 on salad ingredients & made a salad. I didn’t feel like a salad for a couple days & all ingredients wilted.
Toes@ani.social 11 months ago
You gotta order online and use their apps or can cut the price by half if not more. They are making their prices punitive for not using their apps now.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 11 months ago
They’re giving you a discount via app because they’re collecting your data
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did a fast casual place last week with 3 other adults. 65 dollars for 4 burgers, 3 drinks, and 2 small fries. Of course they asked me for a tip.
I really try to avoid restaurants. Every time I go I end up angry.
blotz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s that 20$ per pizza. 3 pizzas? That’s pricy pizza. Is it good pizza at least?
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
In Romania a pizza is $4-6 for a small one and for a large one $8-10
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
We (loc: krautland) totally stopped ordering take-out. It gets less and less, worse and worse, cheaper and cheaper, but also more and more expensive. It’s not worth it anymore. At all.
We may be just some cheap fucks (as many still do, even those with way less moneyz), but takeout is no viable alternative to cooking anymore.
Donkter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Chinese food place near me still sells lunch specials for <10$. It’s the only place I order out from anymore and it will probably close soon.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah, we have one like that (just classic german) here too. The last fighting survivor…
bob_lemon@feddit.de 11 months ago
Gustavo Gusto frozen pizza is better than at least 80% of delivery pizza anyway.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Oh is it? Often seen, never tried. We will try next time!
Though the majority of delivery (or even fresh there) is not what a pizza should be and no real competition for self-made or frozen. Here in the Ruhrgebiet at least. They all just seem like money-laundering-stations with mediocre pizza 😩
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Make pizza at home. Stop falling into poverty traps.
franklin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I understand wanting to give people the tools to help themselves but it’s also important to keep in mind that this sort of logic has been used to punish to poor and victim blame for any excess pleasure expenditure.
Poverty is a symptom of a failing system and does not fall solely on the individual to escape.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are assuming the people have the time to learn, the energy, even a kitchen with enough space to do it. Now if you’re just talking about like a frozen pizza sure whatever but if you’re talking about making it from scratch that’s a lot of fucking work not everyone has that kind of time
JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who doesn’t ever have time to cook? Making pizza from scratch is maybe 30mins of work at most. To me it Sounds like you are infantilizing poor people into a position where they are too stupid to feed themselves. I have never in my life met a single person who couldn’t just have made pizza at home.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tbf sometimes you don’t have the energy or time to cook at home. When that happens pizza is one of the cheapest options. But not freakin $36 pizza that looks marginally better than Little Ceasars.
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pizza is an exception in my book because I can never make it as good at home as they do in a restaurant kitchen.
theImpudentOne@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I saw Home Alone on TV during Christmas and the cheese pizza Kevin orders from Little Nero’s was $12 or $13. I’m impressed and grateful that I can still get a pizza for that price sometimes like 35 years later. Cheaper if I go to Caesars and pick up
Misconduct@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Their crazy bread is like crack to me I stg
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s still a better price for what you are getting, but somehow a large Little Caesars pizza is only as filling as like three or four slices from anywhere else. I can easily finish it in one sitting. But you can’t complain about $5.55 for a whole pizza. And the “Hot-N-Ready!” signs have been making me giggle for 20 years.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…and they’re still asking for tips.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It all went downhill when they let the delivery people set the prices
…?
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Last time I ordered pizza it came out to $30. We make it at home now. Better quality anyway, besides one of my daughters really loves cooking it with me.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you are culinary challenged like myself but would like to making pizza at home, here’s some suggestions:
Frozen grocery store cheese pizza but fancied up by adding whatever topping you are in the mood for. An “Italian seasoning” spice adds a lot of flavor.
Instead of a traditional pizza dough opt for something simpler like French bread or pitas. Slather on sauce, cheese, toppings. This was my introduction to “cooking” when I was broke.
Pre-made pizza crust like Boboli which is nice but ups the cost. You can also buy uncooked dough though I’ve never gone this route. I tried making my own dough back when bread machines were a thing but I could never get the hand of it.
Robin Hood pizza flour. I’m sure there are other brands but this is what our mom would use to make pizza most weekends. Now that I’m thinking about I’ll have to pick some up
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I feel about the word “slather” the way a lot of people seem to feel about the word moist.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really miss RES. I would tag people like you so I could always use the word slather whenever I saw you again.
raynethackery@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope whatever they are slathering is moist.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Should I change it to “spread”? because I’m sure that will make somebody uncomfortable
planish@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You can make tortilla pizza.
Lennnny@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes! We use mission low carb wraps (they seem to crisp up better) and spread tomato puree on top, then season it with garlic salt and Italian herbs, add clumps of grated cheese, and then toppings.
The trick is to preheat the oven to 400 with a cast iron in, and then spray with oil when you take it out ready to cook on (use gloves, it’ll be hot). Carefully transfer the pizza to the hot pan, return to oven, and cook for 10 mins. Depending on the toppings, and if you like it a little more top crispy, switch the oven to broil at the 8 min mark for the last two mins.
My new obsession is a little smidge of grated brussel sprouts (don’t knock it til you try it) with an oil spritz.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is it as fun to make as it is to say?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For years I’ve improved frozen pizzas by just adding more mozzarella.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know if you order pizza from a place that’s actually good, which is to say not Dominos or Pizza Hut, then that’s actually a fair price. That’s how much I pay including tip and delivery. In Chicagoland.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I’d would say it’s a normal price… Not so sure about the fair part.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I remember when you could get a large pizza at Little Caesar’s for $5.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I remember when Little Cesar’s didn’t suck, but that didn’t last either.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I haven’t had it in years, but I used to think their crazy bread was the shit. Sorry to hear it’s gotten awful like everything else.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Now they’re $6. At least where I am.
sjh@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Making your own stuff is more fun than ordering delivery and watching TV while you wait for it to get there
MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Maybe it’s where I live but most people don’t have pizza stoves or pizza ovens at home
Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure you can get by with an oven
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
If you don’t have a cast iron pan, you should get one. A basic Lodge does the job as good as any (it’s just a hunk of iron). It’s super easy to use a cast iron pan to make pizza.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Guess what kind of oven you have after you put a pizza in it
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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Sakychu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Goated
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months ago
If this is the pizza for 36 $ I feel pitty for humanity.
stockRot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re forgetting the neutron star on the side
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like how I feel when someone puts the dollar sign after the number
ranoss@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MVP
XTornado@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Modern problems, not sure if it’s the original tweet image or they used AI to autocomplete the image…
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
it is, i was infuriated by the cropping situation and took 2 minutes of my time to visit the evil site to save the original picture in the reply :)
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 months ago
then dw bt it