• @[email protected]
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    I’ve almost completely eliminated fast food from my diet (Taco Bell is the only one I will go to on occasion because it really is its own genre of food. I love me some real Mexican food, but I also love Taco Bell. They are different things) because it has gotten so goddamn expensive.

    At this point, I can spend another $3 and go to a local place with fresh cooked food that is 1000% better, and then have enough leftovers for two more meals.

    The only reason it ever made sense to get fast food, historically, was that it was dirt cheap. I remember when Chick-fil-a value meals were $5-6. That price has increased by like 150% in ~10-15 years.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 hours ago

    I just spent 25 dollars at Hardee’s for two meals. I never buy fast food but I wanted to get my kid something quick at 6am for wrestling. Breh. What.the.hell…

  • Flying Squid
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    22 hours ago

    You used to be able to get a soft or hard-shelled taco for 59 cents.

  • @snootchiebootchies
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    56 hours ago

    Taco Bell is fine but have you seen Wendy’s prices? Holy crap!

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      Yeah except I can get s whole ass meal every Wednesday and Friday for $2… No matter what I have to pay $7 at taco bell. Used to be like $2-$3 for a few decent filling burritos

  • @[email protected]
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    68 hours ago

    Their $7 lux cravings box is the best deal out there right now as far as I know. But that’s it, the rest of the menu is overpriced just like the others.

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      Rally’s also has a $7 meal, some brisket burger. It’s nowhere near as filling as the luxe cravings box though.

      Oh and Popeyes has a $6 meal that is two pieces of dark meat, a side, a biscuit, and a drink. Still not as filling as the luxe box, but more filling than Rally’s thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    1710 hours ago

    Fast food is still affordable!!!

    If you use the app and don’t get only exactly what you want but what the app gives deals on! At the low low cost of sharing your personal data to their marketing and development teams! (And maybe their 3rd parties depending)

    • GHiLA
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      32 hours ago

      “I found a way to stay tied to giant megacorporations!”

      head pats at the speed of light

      WHAT A GOOD CONSUMER

    • SeekPie
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      You’re not getting better deals. They’re subsidising the cheaper prices with the data they collect on you with the app.

    • Scrubbles
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      32 hours ago

      The amount of people who have responded to me saying “I don’t go to fast food anymore, it’s too expensive” who proudly proclaim “just use the apps!!!” Just saddens me.

      For all the reasons you said and more. No, they lost my business, I go to the local place now. Only time I get fast food now is in airports

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      my local Domino’s has a store specific coupon that sells large pizza 1 toppings half off. Had it for years. It’s great paying $9 for a large pizza, but i know one day corporate will ruin it :(

  • Endymion_Mallorn
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    2213 hours ago

    If they’re too expensive, stop giving them money. Make food at home or go to a local small business, not a chain franchisee.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      Making food at home is great, but how does going to local small business help? Taco Bell taco costs $4.69 and local restaurant taco costs $21?

    • @[email protected]
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      510 hours ago

      Sometimes you just want a Crunchwrap quick, and you can’t get that from a local joint. I don’t always want to wait 20 minutes for a local joint, and half of them are closed by 8. So they’re useless at the time I want Taco Bell.

  • pruwyben
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    2714 hours ago

    My question is, why does the crunchwrap suck so much now?

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours ago

      I started making my own at home using the seasoning packet and sauces. Target also sells a kit that includes the tortillas. Tastes like a better Taco Bell, you can stuff it as much as you want, and you don’t get spicy butthole after.

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      Way less of everything in it. Seems like it’s just tortilla, tostada, and lettuce now. A token smearing of beans and/or protein.

      • @[email protected]
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        It seems the same as it’s always been where I am, but my local Taco Bells are out of beef every other day or their system is down…so I’m lucky if I can just get them