• @CluckN
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    226 months ago

    This image is so old I thought the joke was how good the prices were.

    • @Jiggle_Physics
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      16 months ago

      It isn’t that out of touch with contemporary prices. Maybe 10 years at most, as a lot of the cost increase has been the past 5 years. Doesn’t mean the image isn’t older, just commenting on the price here.

      A current restaurant serving Lobster Thermidor costs about 55$. While any place serving this dish is likely a high quality restaurant, it’s not until one obtains a michelin star that it becomes a 3 digit affair.

    • @[email protected]
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      06 months ago

      This really wasn’t that long ago. That was 10 or 20 years ago I think (can’t remember which because I’m old and time is compressed for me), but I can remember when you could get ultra basic breakfast, granted in not very classy places.

      Actually no, I might be remembering 30 years ago. Sitting in a bowling alley in the 90s, that served food. Little paper placemats with right-angled celtic knot patterns all around the edge. Silverware wrapped up tight in a napkin.

      That kind of place would have a basic breakfast for about a dollar.

      Seems like prices shouldn’t have risen as much as they have in just that short a time.