Not cheap at all. And really bad for health, so doubly costly.
It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50.
3.50€ for a meal isn’t cheap and nothing a poor person can afford on a regular basis. I can cook a great meal for under 2€ that doesn’t consist of trash. What a detached asshole.
McDonald’s is not cheap food, it’s fast food. I don’t expect this cunt to know the difference.
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.
The quality 3 meals a day I consume and make at home average 5€ per portion
That’s really very high, are you guessing or did you actually work it out for an average day?
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What can a banana cost?
According to Google that’s about $5 Canadian. The avegage burger combo at McDonald’s in my area is about $12. $15 if you upsize.
Not that eating healthier is much cheaper.
As of July 2023, the price of a Big Mac (just the sandwich) in the US is $5.58 (€5.27). https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-in@dex-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/
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.
Exactly. Not only is it not cheap on a regular basis, but it isn’t even that much food from my experience at the cheaper end of McDonalds.
You’d be far better off cooking your own food if you have the time, but the problem is a lot of these people are so busy working their arses off to stay afloat that they don’t have that time.
Those 1€ (1.40 in Austria apparently) burgers are barely enough to satiate a child, if combined with fries. They are nowhere near enough to feed an adult.
It’s been very long that these are 1€ here in Germany. Mcd is expensive and in a normal restaurant you can get very good meals for 15€.
Shows how detached these politicians really are.
I propose that we should eat this austrian chancellor instead.
I mean it’s one Big Mac, Michael, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?
Are you enjoying your capitalism?
“Communism is when no food”
Capitalism:
“So what does it mean that a child doesn’t get a hot meal in Austria? Do you know what the cheapest hot meal in Austria is? It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50. Now someone is seriously claiming that we live in a country where parents can’t afford this meal for their child,” he said.
“If I have too little money, I go to work more,” he added in the video, which was filmed during a wine-and-cheese event near Salzburg — with no burgers in sight — his conservative People’s Party confirmed to Plus24.
i hope he chokes to death on a piece of rotten cheese in his wine cave
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.
lol, in my experience French conservative politicians are equally out of touch. They’re bourgeois fucks, they have no idea what a bus ticket costs. See this compilation from a few years ago
They live on another plane of existence, they can’t do anything themselves so it’s not surprising they don’t know the price of things
‘It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?’
Or even better:
C.J.: It’s not that I wanna don a shroud, I just think the Polly-Anna act’s not wearing well. Sir, I’m worried that at some point avoidance starts to look like maybe we just haven’t noticed. We run the risk of appearing out of touch, like one of those President’s who doesn’t know the price of milk. Sir, do you know the price of milk?
BARTLET: Not precisely.
C.J.: Neither do I. Do any of us?Milk has up to 30% pus in it where I’m from (legal limit). Who buys that crap anyway?
Bananas are less than a dollar per pound.
What country is that?
United States
Oh dear
I’d assume Malaysia (from the @monyet)
well to be fair I don’t know the price of milk and I buy milk at the store. That’s not information I memorise
You probably know the ballpark. They have no idea what the correct order of magnitude is
it’s been harder since the ukraine war as things keep getting more and more expensive rapidly
€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
Not unless I take that fuckin 1.40 burger and [REDACTED]
If I have too little money, I go to work more
Something tells me this guy has never had a real job in his life
which was filmed during a wine-and-cheese event
Not sure this is indicative of anything, there are many countries where such events are not luxurious at all, neither is wine as a drink. Dunno about Austria.
I can almost assure you it was one of those gatherings of pretentious snobs that extend their pinky when sipping from their Château Latour.
this line of thinking has never backfired on aristocrats before, and certainly not Austrian aristocrats specifically
Death to America
lol, su true! It’s literally the first thing that comes to mind!
Mr. Karl Marie Antoinehammer skipped some history class
What on earth happened to all the small businesses in my “poor” rural village? Oh right, that pedestrian unfriendly stroad next to the freeway with the Walmart and all the fast food restaurants sucking up the village’s life force happened.
This is another way to tell people to go kill themselves.
Basically yes.
mcdonalds is not cheap though
Fast food is now treated as a “expensive night out” for us. It’s like $30 for standard cost.
And after the delivery services started taking over, it’s not even fast. At my local place anything other than nuggets and fries takes 20-30min minimum.
Crazy how fucked the economy has gotten pretty much everywhere lol
: “But look at the SHAREHOLDER VALUE!”
It’s inflation. This is simply what happens when the governments print money.
no, this is what happens monetary policy is the only tool in the neoliberal toolbox, corporate profiteering is unchecked, and 2 million workers die off to keep the rent checks coming.
Low-income families should eat long pig taken from the rich.
😠
Are you banking on a prion disease to take them out? Because cannibalism is a major risk factor for that.
P sure you just avoid the brain and it’s fine
Brain and spine. Just for the sake of clarity.
McDonalds is disgusting
McDonald’s is also more expensive than the grocery store which is the logical fallacy in his callous statement.
I never hear anything about Austria. And when I do it is this asshole?
I am gonna take a guess at the dude has never seen what fast food did to Americans. Because he’s as stupid as his statement.
Jesus. Throw that bad nutrition at them. Go on.