Poor guy's so broke that he ran out of money for color.
92And a final panel!
42And the last one isn't even full size. Is there nothing shrinkflation won't take from us?
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I read some article about how subway franchise owners HATED $5 footlong because it was making them go broke. You could tell if you went in there by how aggressively they pushed the cookie on you.
Just the sandwich? You don’t want a cookie? Come on buy a cookie! How about a soda?
25The lack of toppings they put on those things made them worth far less than $5. 2 slices of meat and cheese and a bunch of lettuce? I can make a better sub for cheaper than that with stuff from the grocery store.
1My subway was generous, and wrapped up a piece of their food safety glove with my sandwich. They wouldn't refund me, so I decided to be generous as well, and not ever go back to any locations.
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If you're tight on cash and getting fast food, I have doubts about how tight on cash you actually are
21Cooking unfortunately isn't really taught anymore. As someone who graduated and knew nothing about how to even do basic cooking, like didn't know how to make pasta basic, I was basically in that spot. Luckily I found cooking videos and learned, but right after school it was a hard few years. If it wasn't peanut butter, top ramen, or Mac and cheese I didn't know how to make it - and it was incredibly intimidating
28Scrambled eggs are easy enough to make
0I know how to cook, but it's hard with 2 kids, and we both work A LOT all week. Weekends we are almost always busy as well, so meal prep and cooking most days is hard. I try to do simple stuff, but it's hard, and I know I can't be the only one. Plus, I consider this guy lucky since let me check my bank account right now, and oh, it's currently negative $300 until next friday... life is super hard these days, do what you can...
5I made apple pie from scratch last weekend for the first time. Best feeling ever.
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If you run out of people to judge, remember: you can always judge the destitute!
25St. Luigi of Baltimore, forgive us our sins, deliver us from the greed of the wicked...
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Damn straight. I could feed myself for a day on $5 easy.
I could even stretch it to a weeks worth of meals, if shoplifting is allowed.
13If shoplifting is allowed, you could go indefinitely...
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They could just go to Little Caesar's! Oh wait.
17We went to Little Caesars for the first time in 5 years, and it ended up being more than Dominos, took longer, and wasn't as good. Little Caesars used to suck but was cheap, now it just sucks.
4So just Tiny Caesar's this month?
4Et tu?
2You're right; if I were ever to try to compete with Little Caesar's, I would name my facility Big Brutus.
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I recently went on vacation and experienced this for the first time,
I have never personally done it myself, but when I was in Florida one of my friends would do it every time they entered an establishment they would buy a drink they would drink the drink during the time there and then on their way out they would refill it on the soda fountain. Asked them about it and the response was that they found the establishments that have the soda fountain able to be used by customers generally seemed to have a free refill policy.
I have never heard of that, it's not a thing in my state, and I don't think they actually do, but nonetheless I never saw her get stopped by any employee for doing it, and just by sitting at the table eating I could see that it definitely was not just her doing it.
13You’re actually the odd one out here. Free refills are nearly universal across the US
40Same, every place I would assume so if it was self service. The syrup is like, 7 cents for a large drink anyway, it's not like they're going bankrupt if everyone gets a refill on a drink they paid > $1 for
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I have no clue what state you could be from where soda fountains in the dining room aren't free refills.
I'm from VA and lived in a few different states. I've work in fast food. The syrup and carbonated water combo is cheap. The cup is more expensive. Most restaurants would pay the few cents and keep the customer coming back. I always used to refill my soda when I left places. I've been cutting back on soda, so I don't do that anymore.
The 'trick' the fast food workers are supposed to look out for is the customer asking for a cup for water and then filling it with soda. Most cashiers don't care enough to track you though.
29Every place I've been to with a self serve soda fountain across the US has done free refills. Even a lot of places with the fountain behind the counter did free refills if you asked.
15Pretty common in my state for refills to be free. I've even seen claims that the cup is more expensive than the soda in it to the company.
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They usually have a coupon code for $7.99 for any footlong, which isn't too bad.
8Buy bread and deli meat. In fact, rice & beans.
7We have gotten on those cook at home flour tortillas and refried beans. Great meal.
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That won't even cover the Doordash charge.
1I don't understand why people use doordash or food delivery.
Especially people with limited funds.
18Me neither. My daughter's prior bf had $200 in the bank and ordered Wendy's from doordash. There's a strong treat-yoself mentality that says everybody deserves a little luxury and makes it practically immoral to be frugal or contradict the "healthy food is too expensive" gospel etc.
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