also I actually lied, there's two restaurants I could get to from here. The other one besides Bert's is The Beacon 443, at which you can pay $10 for an order of six mozzarella sticks that are actually filled with white American cheese, and where a small soda (RC Cola brand, btw) literally comes in one of those paper cups you find at doctor's offices next to the water cooler. Also, the one time I ate there I vomited almost immediately after eating. Like, on my way out the door.
Every restaurant here is either bland or that kind of experience.
I think on average, to feed myself at a fast food establishment is maybe $6-8, whereas to make myself a decent meal from storebought ingredients probably runs me closer to $10-15, and I'm not terribly picky about brands.
Hm. i'd be very surprised at a normal homecooked meal for one costing that much, but i guess we're shopping at different places?
Does Britain face the scourge of the bland white people restaraunt?
i guess? We have restaurants run by white people and they're usually pretty bland, if that's what you mean.
i have never lived in an area that's, by any reasonable metric, ethnically diverse, so i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be comparing them with. Indian food? Chinese?
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I tend to eat a lot of food that I make myself. I make food such as pasta, lentils, rice, soups, or other similar "bulk" food.
I'll often make enough food to last me a several meals at once or to feed my rooommates along with me. It's a very cost effective way of eating good food. For example, making a lentil soup with sausage would probably cost me about:
$1.89 for a small bag of lentils
$3.29 for a smoked ring sausage
$.89 for some green onions (really zero because I have my own plant, but hypothetically)
$1.79 for chicken stock base
$1.00??? for the amount of spices I'll use, which are pretty optional though they make it better. They're a high up-front cost, low cost per serving sort of thing.
$1.69 for fresh spinach.
= $10.59 (prices are from the Safeway online shopping website, since that's the place I usually shop)
Altogether, this will make enough soup for me to eat for about three to five days (depending on if I eat it for every meal or if I mix in some variety). Assuming it would end up even just three portions, a very conservative estimate, it would come out to $3.53 per meal. Typically there's a lot more than I could eat in three portions, though. Admittedly, I am a small person and don't tend to have huge portions, but it makes for fairly cheap, tasty, and filling food.
Alternatively, pasta here is dirt cheap. I can get enough pasta for ~3 meals for $.99. Alfredo sauce costs $2 and lasts me about a box of pasta. That's a dollar per meal. Maybe a bit more if I add on some parmesan cheese, but that stuff lasts a long time and has a very small cost per serving.
Also, a disclaimer: I'm not saying everyone has access to food as easily as I do. I understand some people live in areas where it's much harder to make one's own food successfully. This is just my own take on it in my own area. I was also just curious as to how much I'd typically spend on something like soup, since I'd never actually calculated it out.
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i guess? We have restaurants run by white people and they're usually pretty bland, if that's what you mean.
i have never lived in an area that's, by any reasonable metric, ethnically diverse, so i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be comparing them with. Indian food? Chinese?
this is about WENDY'S
bland?
You tell me