r/Economics • u/Technical_Ostrich_47 • 17h ago

News US inflation rises more than expected ahead of midterm elections (3.7%)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy8lx3pg4k2o
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u/qualityinnbedbugs 16h ago

I tell my son when it costs $20 for me and him at Taco Bell, that in college $20 could easily feed me and 4 of my fat drunk friends at 2am

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u/RIP_Soulja_Slim 14h ago

I know we all went to college at different times but dude I think a grilled stuft steak burrito used to be like $3.50 or something. If they brought that shit back now they'd be charging $12 easily.

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u/popsicle_of_meat 12h ago

And at $12 I'd rather go to Chipotle or Qdoba where it's only like $10-11. Hell, even at $8-9 for taco bell burrito I'd rather go to Chipotle.

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u/Empty-Presentation68 15h ago

And the quality of food was better than what it is today surprisingly enough.

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u/Chronochrome 6h ago

They definitely changed something about the beef. It used to be much more flavorful.

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u/HauntingPlankton7189 14h ago edited 13h ago

Yup. Lived across the street from a TBell in college. It was cheaper for us to eat there than to go get groceries. 2 Cheesy Double Beef Burritos for $2 was impossible to beat. 

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These were actually 89 cents back then. Yikes

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u/HodlStacker 11h ago

There was a place near where I went to college that, in the mid 2010s, for $20 4-6 of us could get a massive stack of nachos and probably have enough left over for each of us to have a snack/small meal later. And we were all pretty good size dudes.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 3h ago

and when my grandpa was young bread cost a nickel 😂

not quite the gotcha you may be expecting