McDonald's is not cheap food, it's fast food. I don't expect this cunt to know the difference.

Yeah, even though fast food is often looked down upon, it's actually a luxury food. I enjoy fast food about 3 times per week and it costs almost as much as all other groceries summed up. If i had to cut costs, this would be the first thing i'd cut. I would eat rice, legumes and tomato sauce instead (maybe with toppings like canned fish or tofu) would easily save me >50€ per week. You can buy cheap high quality rice in huge sacks (often with zippers on top) to save even more.

Yeah I don't know about Austria but here McDonald's ain't that cheap.

The 1,40 burgers are barely enough to satiate a child, even with fries.

A menu that can fill an adult, that's 13-14€ easily. And that's still just one meal.

The quality 3 meals a day I consume and make at home average 5€ per portion. resulting in 450€ food budget per person per month, I generally go for white label products if the quality is good enough.

That's 900€ a month for 2 people for food alone (this was 300ish before COVID).
850-1000€ for entry level 1 bedroom rent here, brings us to 1750-1900€ a month for a roof and food, another 75-100 for electricity (and then you have to be very usage conscious) brings us to 1825-2000€ a month, add required insurance (fire/health/accidents) for another 50-100€ brings us to 1875-2100€ a month.

Now, a phone and internet sub are pretty much a requirement these days, so say the cost of a cheap phone, internet and gsm abbo combine to be another 50€ a month per person.

So we're at 1975-2200€ a month to cover the very basic living expenses for a 2 person household.

You'd need to have one person with a decent wage or two people working minimum wage to barely get by.

Any surprise or extra cost and you're in the red.

Eating McDonnalds to cover breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, you'd need over 2000€ for food alone.

That's not even enough to satiate you. For that you need to buy a menu which is about 10€ here in Germany. That's not cheap at all.

Even disregarding this being a horrible choice for your child's nutrition that's a pretty bad deal, you could get much more food by buying cheap brands in the supermarket.

This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally conservative EU politicians have the sense to refrain from such statements even if probably most of them believe the same.

€3.50 every day would be €108.50 per month for a single person eating a single meal per day

that's way more than i spend at the supermarket and i eat two meals per day that are way more filling and actually healthy lmao

I personally couldnt care less if he was leading the party at the last elections or not. Nehammer is prime ÖVP, his politics is a perfect example of what you get when you vote for this party.

Resting Bougface

Bleeding it dry? There was a thread in Mastodon recently proving there's a massive supermarket cartel driving prices in Austria higher than in surrounding countries and the government took the side of the supermarkets.

The vision of his party is to keep everything the same, they're conservatives

His opinion used to be much more widespread 10 or 15 years ago. Now poor people can't even eat fast food without being judged for wasting money.

He's not just a capitalist pig, he's an out of touch capitalist pig.

Fast food is now treated as a "expensive night out" for us. It's like $30 for standard cost.

He's the kind of guy who looks like he could use a quick session of his teeth being on fire.

Yeah, I always heard in my youth that McDonald's is the poor's restaurant (in the US at least). However it was never really the case e.g. in Hungary. It was always average priced at best. You can eat far better for far less in every moderate-sized town.

McDonald's is also more expensive than the grocery store which is the logical fallacy in his callous statement.