Most outrageous food pricing

[Dion]

Fat Burger - Junior bacon cheese burger with fries and drink for $11.00

[Bertuzzied]

Any Pho place that has a bowl of pho for more than $9.

Bolsa was terrible. small and expensive.

[moncton golden flames]

bottled water!

a 591ml bottle of water costs $1.69 at shoppers. that's $2.86/litre of water. compare that to the price of 1L of gas ($1.15), and water is very expensive.

[stuckinchuck]

Originally Posted by moncton golden flames

bottled water!

a 591ml bottle of water costs $1.69 at shoppers. that's $2.86/litre of water. compare that to the price of 1L of gas ($1.15), and water is very expensive.

Whoever buys bottled water deserves to be ripped off.

[burn_this_city]

Especially at those Shoppers mini grocery stores, they gouge on everything.

[CampbellsTransgressions]

Extreme Pita and Hungry Sultan in the NE.

[CaptainCrunch]

Human flesh at $37.00 a pound.

Outrageous

[return to the red]

Anybody golfed silver tip and had the 6 oz. Steak? $26 dollars for a little nugget and the sides are a-la-cart too.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

In New York.

Yeah, I mean I've accepted that things will cost more here, although in general I don't pay much more for things here than I did in Calgary and in many cases (particulary booze) it's cheaper, but paying that much for a fast food salad always makes me feel like a chump. It's probably a pretty decent deal given the ingredients, but man $12? Just doesn't seems right.

[albertGQ]

Even pasta tuesadys at BPs is expensive IMO

[Travis Munroe]

Originally Posted by moncton golden flames

bottled water!

a 591ml bottle of water costs $1.69 at shoppers. that's $2.86/litre of water. compare that to the price of 1L of gas ($1.15), and water is very expensive.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by stuckinchuck

Whoever buys bottled water deserves to be ripped off.

What about people who just want to drink something, but they don't want pop or juice? Am I a sucker for stopping at a gas station and buying a bottle of water?
How about a crew keeping a case of water in a work truck?

Just because it flows for cheap from a faucet doesn't make it easily portable or convenient. I'm not going to fill up an old 2l coke bottle with water and take it with me for a day of work.

Anyway, I don't really see why it's a "ripoff" to begin with. I want it cold and I want it in individual packages. That's what I'm paying for. I suppose it'd be nice if it was cheaper than pop, but I can't complain that it's the same price because after all, it is the same convenience.

[Machiavelli]

Bottled water can be pretty cheap, too. You can get often get the 12-packs on sale for $0.99 at Shoppers Drug Mart.

[stuckinchuck]

Originally Posted by 4X4

What about people who just want to drink something, but they don't want pop or juice? Am I a sucker for stopping at a gas station and buying a bottle of water?
How about a crew keeping a case of water in a work truck?

Just because it flows for cheap from a faucet doesn't make it easily portable or convenient. I'm not going to fill up an old 2l coke bottle with water and take it with me for a day of work.

Anyway, I don't really see why it's a "ripoff" to begin with. I want it cold and I want it in individual packages. That's what I'm paying for. I suppose it'd be nice if it was cheaper than pop, but I can't complain that it's the same price because after all, it is the same convenience.

At my work there are lots of people who fill up Nalgene's at home and bring them in. I don't see how it's less portable than buying a bottle of water. Less convenient sure, but at a cost of a factor of thousands more.

And not to sound like a hippy, but the environmental costs of bottling and transporting water is astronomical. There's a decent documentary on this called "Tapped" on Netflix if you're interested. Anyways, i'm kinda derailing this thread.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by stuckinchuck

At my work there are lots of people who fill up Nalgene's at home and bring them in. I don't see how it's less portable than buying a bottle of water. Less convenient sure, but at a cost of a factor of thousands more.

And not to sound like a hippy, but the environmental costs of bottling and transporting water is astronomical. There's a decent documentary on this called "Tapped" on Netflix if you're interested. Anyways, i'm kinda derailing this thread.

How is it any different than buying orange juice from the gas station? I can make orange juice at home for a fraction of the price and then put it in a nalgene (never knew there was a fancy name for a reusable container)?

No, the people that love to make fun of people who buy water do so because they once saw someone filling up a water bottle at a water fountain and decided that that person was a poser rather than a person that ran out of water and didn't really *care* where the water came from, but rather wanted water in a portable, disposable container.

People who drink bottled water aren't killing the environment any more than people who drink or consume anything out of any disposable container. In fact, if the only thing bottled was water, then I suspect the environment would be a much, much better place without all those sodapop factories churning pollution into the atmosphere.

But yeah, keep your nose in the air, hippy.

[stuckinchuck]

Originally Posted by 4X4

How is it any different than buying orange juice from the gas station? I can make orange juice at home for a fraction of the price and then put it in a nalgene (never knew there was a fancy name for a reusable container)?

No, the people that love to make fun of people who buy water do so because they once saw someone filling up a water bottle at a water fountain and decided that that person was a poser rather than a person that ran out of water and didn't really *care* where the water came from, but rather wanted water in a portable, disposable container.

People who drink bottled water aren't killing the environment any more than people who drink or consume anything out of any disposable container. In fact, if the only thing bottled was water, then I suspect the environment would be a much, much better place without all those sodapop factories churning pollution into the atmosphere.

But yeah, keep your nose in the air, hippy.

Difference is you have to squeeze oranges vs turning on a tap. If you're too lazy to turn on a tap and fill a nalgene (oh sorry, water bottle) around with you, then yeah, you deserve to get ripped off.

And of course it's different than other products. It's an unnecessary product in a country with the highest percentage of fresh water on the planet. But whatever. I get it. The tap is hard to turn on. Convenience is worth paying the exponential mark up.

[united]

Saddledome Nachos. I feel like a complete idiot paying $7.50 (or more with extra cheese) for a bowl of chips every game yet I still do. They are sooo good though.

[ricosuave]

Breakfasts in general.

Bacon and eggs, hash browns and toast is hovering around $8-10 now.

Why?

[prarieboy]

Rack of Lamb or Lamb chops. I hate paying the price but it's so tasty!!

[4X4]

Originally Posted by stuckinchuck

Difference is you have to squeeze oranges vs turning on a tap. If you're too lazy to turn on a tap and fill a nalgene (oh sorry, water bottle) around with you, then yeah, you deserve to get ripped off.

And of course it's different than other products. It's an unnecessary product in a country with the highest percentage of fresh water on the planet. But whatever. I get it. The tap is hard to turn on. Convenience is worth paying the exponential mark up.

Lol. Ok, am I allowed to purchase water 5 days into a camping trip, or should I have used the garden hose and a barrel?

Listen to yourself, man. Suddenly I'm lazy because I didn't think about filling a nalgene before embarking on any excursion that will take me far enough away from my kitchen sink that I'd consider buying a bottle of water?

It's my money, so how about you let me decide how I spend it. Go ahead and buy your bottle of pop when you stop at a gas station. I'll have water, TYVM.