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Yeah I’m seeing $20 sandwiches in NYC now.
by etrautmann 5y ago
Yeah I’m seeing $20 sandwiches in NYC now.
- cookiengineer 5y agoJust last week I've spent 20 bucks for 4 balls of ice cream. It felt like being mugged...
- lupire 5y agoWho forced you to buy the ice cream?
- itake 5y agoIf they wanted to buy ice cream and that was the price, then they had to pay it or they wouldn’t get ice cream. Are you saying there is a lower cost ice cream store across the street?
- pc86 5y agoThey're saying that it's pretty silly to compare buying ice cream to being mugged. If it's too expensive, don't buy the ice cream. The price of ice cream isn't an invariant, if nobody buys it the price will decrease. If nobody has a problem paying $5/scoop for ice cream, that's what the price is going to be.
- thereare5lights 5y agoThere's nothing silly about it. It's just a metaphor. It's more incredulous that people have a problem with figurative speech like this than the comparison itself.
- bally0241 5y agoIts called hyperbole. Seriously HN can be so pedantic sometimes.
- refurb 5y agoHyperbole, like sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet.
- lamontcg 5y agoAmerican scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.
- geoduck14 5y ago>American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word. I feel like this is sarcasm, but I guess that my inability to know proves the point
- scsilver 5y agoI went into a bar and asked for a glass of wine they had already poured it into a plastic cup before informing me it was 19 bucks. I was mugged.
- vba616 5y agoThere's a convenience store chain where I live that has a "flavor of the week" available at $3.39 for a half gallon. But if you want to lose weight, perhaps it's better not to know.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoSometimes prices are inelastic after you've stood in line wanting ice cream. You have to price in human emotion. Next time he'll probably find a cheaper place.
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- fowkswe 5y ago$20 is the new five
- vba616 5y agoI heard the phrase "Yuppie food stamps" meaning ATM-dispensed $20s, a long time ago, and didn't people start using the term "Yuppie" in the 80s?
- jimmaswell 5y agoSounds like typical NYC to me, as someone from the rest of the state. Every time I've eaten in NYC it's been mediocre and expensive.
- etrautmann 5y agoTo be fair, there's a lot of incredible food here too...