someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

I do self-criticism constantly because I’m trapped in a Maoist cult where comrades (white terrorists) criticize me mercilessly for having a fascist credit card (VISA Silver Signature Rewards)

They won’t let me order vegan pizza anymore because the phone is fascist and “summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app” is “bad vibes”

This is the moment that I finally realize that the Maoist cult was right all along.

Where is this from?
- I think this is where it's from. Just something someone came up with that caught on and became a meme here.

They make their own food dork

Also imagine posting such a self own of your taste buds, I always eat at a hole in the wall ran by a Chinese grandma that berates me for not being a fatass and gives me free food

The best Chinese food is always in a dirty room somewhere with 90% elderly mah jong players and front of house that greet regulars by yelling "WHY ARE YOU HERE!?"
- There used to be a Chinese restaurant (or what we call Chinese in Ireland, half of it was chips and curry) near me that had ridiculously cheap meals and the food was amazing. They only accepted cash and even though there was a dining area, the only people who ever sat there were the worker's kids doing their homework. I came to the conclusion that it had to be a front for money laundering because the food was so good and so cheap
  Now its being gentrified :(
- she like, fusses over me like i was her kid, its adorable and i love her
  also yeah all their food is in this series of layered mystery vats that are impeccably clean with a 100 rating that theyre very proud of. letting it roast in the juices makes it
  its also apparently really low on labor, they just throw it all in the vat on monday and keep it simmering all week, tastes amazing. shes from like guangdong or something and used to run a communal kitchen there but moved to america when her kids moved here for university many decades ago. she hasnt been back to china in a long time so i showed her videos of her home town and she was shocked at the infrastructure changes
- I think the stereotype is that if there isn't at least one kid doing homework you should re-consider eating there.
  God, immigrant run restaurants. All the stories about doctors and engineers and skilled semastresses and on and on who were shut out of their porfession by racism and regulations so they started restaurants because it's a relatively accessible way to get a small business up and running.
- If an immigrant owned restaurant has negative reviews from entitled white people saying "service was poor" or "staff seemed rude" I'm immediately more inclined to go there tbh. Food is always top tier.

he spent more on doordash than I make in a year isn't that fun

Dudes spending half a million Rand on DoorDash FFS. I know you can't compare currencies and shit, but that's enough for a large family to live comfortably in South Africa, in a nice suburban housing complex even.
First world excess really makes me angry for some reason lol.

This is how I imagine all people who say they "don't know how to cook" live

I'm neurodiverse and cant cook without support really? Other than like, pasta and scrambled eggs. Im sorta learning though.
But yeah I get delivery like once or twice a week and if my disaiblity staff and I cant cook a week itll be more. And I'm living on socsec.
- You don't need to feel insecure or anything if the situation doesn't apply to you. I mean that in a nice way and don't think you should feel ashamed at all if you're in a bad spot right now. It's enough that you're trying to learn and do better.

Dude probably doesn’t tip on that order and writes in “you got to
and I didn’t, there’s your tip” in the notes, so it’s actually saving money on the order vs other places.
- oh fuck this is true isn't it
I know people who order pizza from Chuck-E-Cheese? Who goes there for the food? You go for the weird Star Wars arcade game and the scary animatronics

maybe this is weird of me but i have nothing but contempt for people who regularly order doordash/grubhub. Something about paying some servant over an app to go buy your treats for you pisses me off

Why on God's green Earth would someone get Hooter's delivered!?!? I hate the restaurant but it's like buying alcohol to go from a strip club. Being there is the point!

Many people when I was growing up would joke "I just go there for the wings".
This man actually does.

$1500 doordash from hooters

I can't believe no one in this thread mentioned this guy was sued for wage theft of tens of thousands of dollars

https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/2021/03/24/scoop-clarksville-ceo-jason-steen-lawsuits-employees-wages-pay/6909032002/

Oh yeah now definitely :gulag: nail his ass to one or more walls.

yes yes consumer choices don't make you moral/immoral

all i'm saying is that spending 3000 dollars at chilis is a death sentence, okay?

Yeah i'll argue til I'm plue in the face against "communism is when you don't have stuff" but some kind of intervention is needed here even before we get to eating at Chikfila.

that's more than double my entire annual income

: |

There is no god. Paradoxically, this is hell and we are being punished.

how many fucking fast food places are there in the US? you have one callled fat shack??????

The list was actually cut off, so there's more
- Wicked Good Sandwiches
  Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers
  Bojangles' Chicken 'n Burritos
  Captain D's Seafood Kitchen
  Shipley Do-Nuts
  Bubbakoo's Burritos
  This is like if that one Japanese baseball simulator generated names for American fast food places

Absolutely shameful to order Hooters when there is literally any other wing restaurant around, and I checked, there's two Wingstops near this man. And it's not because it's a breastaurant, it's because the food is terrible.
- It is shameful to order Hooters even if you are in the middle of the desert, they magically have a location right there, and you will starve to death if you don’t eat there.
- Remember back when wings were, what, 10? 25 cents? "Back in my day you could get a stake dinner for a dollat" except back in my day the minimum was was exactly what it is now. : p shit's gotten so, so much more expensive in the last 20 years.
It's gotta be parody I can't imagine anyone eating apple bees by choice
- fuck it's on there twice

$68.50 on doordash a day? for one person? also i find it hard to believe that someone would be ordering chili's, applebee's, and hooters when those are some of the worst quality food and people only go there to sit down

I dated a girl who told me she spent $600/month on take out and she was on a student's budget.
- Same. Big sushi order 2-4 times a month. Granted they didnt have a car so.
$68.50 in door dash is what, $30 of food at menu price before fees and tip?
- Which is still high, a hole in the wall restaurant is usually like 20 dollars per person and I usually tip my old Chinese grandma waitress/cook half that because I love her
- The column header says sum of subtotal, I think this is before fees, tax, and tip.
hold up have you even met americans?
A lot of people have appalling taste, often just for lack of options or experience. You wouldn't believe the shit Minnesotans eat on purpose even though they don't have to.

Imagine having enough money to not only have a very well equipped kitchen but also hire a part time private chef to prep meals for you and you spend five figures on garbage that poor people are stuck eating because they don't have time to cook for themselves.

Lol and i think it’s fair to say that most poor people can’t even afford fast food anymore. A Big Mac is almost 10 bucks now. Like what?