It’s just a meme, but I take your point. Since I can’t do all of the math myself, threads where folks like you compare prices of foods at stores/restaurants to home cooking, prices of ingredients, etc. with sources is, of course, highly encouraged.

And to be clear, I’m not saying that to be lazy; I genuinely can’t tabulate everything on my own though I am tabulating a lot of the prices for things I happen to know about and can thus throw in to the giant soup pot of knowledge, as it were. There’s gonna be stuff I forget and get wrong. It’s just part of being human.