this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
897 points (93.6% liked)

memes

11457 readers
2350 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And sometimes you're too tired for that or want something you can't reasonably make at home. There's nothing wrong with ordering food.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nothing wrong with it rarely or if you’re disabled, but paying $30 for McDonald’s or whatever on a regular basis is insane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's zero indication that OP is ordering delivery often, so I'm not sure why you have jumped to that conclusion?

Besides, whether or not ordering delivery often depends on what you're ordering and on your disposable income. McDonald's is far from the only option, plenty of real restaurants offer delivery too these days. If you can afford it, you can probably eat a fairly healthy diet even if you never cook. Not for me, in no small part because I usually enjoy cooking, but I'm not gonna judge people who don't. Doesn't affect me, I'm not gonna go out of my way to be annoyed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

My post was in no way attacking OP. I was just soapboxing about food delivery services that charge insane fees for something which, in my opinion, is mostly useless.

I fully admit I’m being judgmental. And people are free to disagree with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

So I don't really understand why you are paying so much for food? Looking at the local delivery app, I just now chose a "big Mac mcmenue" containing a big Mac, fries and a 0.5l drink. This would cost me 10,89€, let's say 13€ with a very generous tip.

At this moment it seems 13€ are worth $13,48. What are you ordering that costs more than double of that?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. Almost everyone on uber eats (and similar services) mark up their items. This sausage burrito meal is $10 on uber eats and is 8 something in store

  2. Delivery fee 5.99

  3. tip (whatever you want to pay)

For a normal meal this will more than double the price. Order just about anything else and you’re easily at $30 with still almost half the price being the delivery.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Not everyone is ordering for a single person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What are you ordering that costs more than double of that?

Two Big Mac Menus? And some chicken nuggets.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So people in the USA just eat a lot?

Another stereotype confirmed I guess

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Food was cheap for a long time, and mental healthcare is prohibitively expensive.

Much more financially responsible to eat one's feelings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I know some in Europe as well. A colleague from work regularly eats a large menu with an additional burger and chicken nuggets for lunch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

As an American, I can tell you it's true, and we don't realize it in large part because portion sizes in the US are crazy. A medium-sized beverage here would be a large in most other countries. Restaurants traditionally serve huge portions of food, supposedly originally so that no matter how big your appetite, everybody would get enough to eat and have leftovers to bring home. But now people just eat it all.

Add in all the sugar that's in our food (thanks to a health propaganda campaign that convinced people fat was bad, most fat is replaced with sugar - especially high-fructose corn syrup), which is way more fattening than actual fat, and the lack of pedestrian access to most things, and you've got a perfect recipe for an obesity epidemic of people who eat too much, drink too many sugary drinks, and don't exercise enough.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Nothing wrong with ordering food" - correct

But there is something wrong with paying double to have it delivered - it's called wasting money. Do y'all have a lot of money to waste?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I actually order way too much, but it costs like 2 euros to get it delivered with a 5€/month subscription. My time is worth roughly an euro per minute. Anything farther than a 5 minute walk is a net loss to pick up on foot. There's nothing closer than a 30 minute walk there and back. Car also takes fuel to get started

If delivery starts costing me 10 or 20 euros, I'll start walking or driving to pick up my food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd rather "waste" some money instead of my time picking it up ... or even worse, shopping and cooking.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

How would they complain that everything is way too expensive nowadays if they didn't?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

there's nothing wrong with it but it's a luxury service so you shouldn't complain about it being expensive