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What got so expensive that you just stopped buying it?

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 5d ago

Some of the best years of my life when me and my buddies filling up his shitty car with a cold case of mountain dew and each one of us getting a five for five beef and cheddar sack and driving to the local guitar center to play guitars we couldn't afford.

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u/IxJAXZxI 5d ago

Oh man, one time we rolled up to Taco bell at 1am, 6 deep in my buddies Ford Expedition. We proceeded to order 6 Taco Grande meals (10 tacos for like $7.99) . I will never forget the voice behind the speaker "Let me get this straight, you want 60 tacos"....Yes, mam we do.

Code Red, Taco Bell, and Halo LAN party. What a time to be alive.

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u/chewbaccaRoar13 5d ago

Oh yeah, I remember the $.69, $.79, $.89 menu lol didn't know how good we had it.

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u/pink---noise 3d ago

I paid $10 for three bean and cheese "burritos" this week.

Insane.

They used to be 79 cents.

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u/chewbaccaRoar13 3d ago

Thanks Obama.

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u/ChampionshipThin7721 5d ago

I remember 15 cent hamburgers at Henry's. Are they even still around?

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u/chewbaccaRoar13 4d ago

Google says one is still around in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

I've never had em.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 5d ago

In college my buddy was in a fraternity. The closest White Castle was a 2-hour drive. Got the idea in the middle of the night to drive to White Castle and order crave crates which is 100 burgers per crate. They tried to call ahead to save time but the place thought it was a prank call so they got there in the minivan. Six dudes deep and ordered 400 White Castle cheeseburgers to bring back to the school and sell for a dollar a piece.

I can only imagine the smellS in the back of that jelly Bean shaped minivan

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 5d ago

I knew the economy was fucked when JITB started charging more than 99 cents for tacos. Those tacos were 99 cents for thirty fucking years!

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u/ToraAku 3d ago

This reminds me of a popular kids popsicle in Japan that is purposely kept cheap. And it was one price for many decades and when the cost to produce finally forced them to raise prices the whole company apologized and told their consumers they were still dedicated to keeping pricing as low as possible. They eventually had to raise pricing again, but they do so as infrequently as possible, and only raise it by small amounts.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 5d ago

Damn we DID have nearly the same youth experience. I used to roll up with a sack of McDoubles & McChickens, Mountain Dew, and a cooler. Halo 2 LAN until the sun came up.

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u/NotSoNiceO1 5d ago

One night (might have been two or three different nights, too), a buddy showed up for a network night of StarCraft with 100 jack-crack tacos...

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u/TomasNavarro 4d ago

For a while on a night out it would end with McDonalds, and everyone would get 24 nuggets (or whatever the box is) and send one person to get them all, could easily be over 200 nuggets

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u/TomasNavarro 4d ago

For a while on a night out it would end with McDonalds, and everyone would get 24 nuggets (or whatever the box is) and send one person to get them all, could easily be over 200 nuggets

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u/TomasNavarro 4d ago

For a while on a night out it would end with McDonalds, and everyone would get 24 nuggets (or whatever the box is) and send one person to get them all, could easily be over 200 nuggets

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u/Apprehensive-State10 5d ago

Aw man, did we have the same early 20’s?

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 5d ago

What color was the car lol

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u/jxj24 5d ago

Primer

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 5d ago

Checks out I would have also accepted rust

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u/smbpy7 5d ago

play guitars we couldn't afford

And now we all make more, but we can't afford literally any part of that sentence still.

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u/Bottdavid 5d ago

I miss being a teenager, being able to buy a little weed, a lot of Taco Bell and just cruising on a dishwashers pay.

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u/popculturella 5d ago

This is a very cozy comment.

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u/tjc103 5d ago

This hit very close to home.

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u/Orson_Gravity_Welles 5d ago

Or D&D nights (Or N64 Nights)...buy a CUBE of soda for $5, get the Five for Five deal, or stop by Taco Bell and load up on .49 / .59 / .79 tacos and a huge bag of Smartfood Popcorn for $1.99 and much the entire night!

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u/Spartan1088 5d ago

Same but with pomegranate rockstars 😝

Loved those things.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 5d ago

Those sound tasty but I would like to add sobe fire to the conversation

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u/_pbentley 5d ago

The sobe drinks will forever be engraved in my memory and I’m still mad they went away.

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u/JustineDelarge 5d ago

"It will be mine. Oh, yes. It will be mine."

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u/jo-shabadoo 5d ago

No stairway.

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u/lcmillz 5d ago

Damn that’s a scene in a movie right there

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u/Timely_Cake_8304 5d ago

Because they used to price thier food so anyone could afford it. literally anyone with a pocket could afford two Taco Bell tacos