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Meanwhile, I can get 100 black teabags for like 5 dollars.
Thanks Obama
Whatever for?!
It is a joke
Ah shit fell for that one 🤓
That’s the stuff they serve for free after every church service. Just bring a thermos and ask them to fill 'er up.
I’ll just make some at home, but thanks. Nice try, though.
What is church service, is that when Christians visit church on sundays?
A church service is the unit of church. Most of them will occur on Sundays, but there could be multiple spread over the day. Check your local church schedule and sneak in at the end of the service.
Check your local church schedule
No thanks
It’s a large part lower yields because of drought, a part increased demand (especially from Asia) and a bonus part of inflation for a bunch of other reasons.
You bought it. It’ll be $6 next summer
In the past 25 years ive been an avid coffee drinker, its rare I’ll be at a diner and look at the price of coffee. It should be between 2 and 4 bucks (for a good cup, like local roasted).
Now if they go and get the same cup again tomorrow, thats on them.
I eat apples because they taste sweet. Same for other fruit. I like beans and soups for their taste, texture, aroma and nutritional value… They make my tummy happy.
Coffee on the otherhand tastes awful, smells like ball bearing grease and look like rust behind the toilet bowl. Why do people drink that? Plus it is sometimes hot like lava and sometimes cold. If you don’t drink it, your tummy hurts for it. If you drink it you mind runs crazy and your heartbeat is not steady. It’s a piece of shit in all sorts of ways. Doctors try to get money by telling us how a cup a day affects our life. But outside in nature there are so many much more appealing things to make into a drink… Why focus on coffee? Heck pistachios can be blended into a really good tasting drink.
A lot of things taste bad when you are a child. If you are young and drink coffee for the first time it will just be bitter. But some day you might develop a taste for the different rich flavours coffee contains, the different levels and kinds of bitterness, you will train your taste. Of course you can also just never try and stay with Dr. Pepper, and that is alright. Not everybody can enjoy a good wine, a good cigar or a good coffee. I just have not a taste for wine. But do I go around and yell that wine tastes like shit and people get addicted so it sucks? No I don’t, so have a little bit of respect for what other people may like or may not like.
Your tummy hurts for it? Are you 5?
When I enter a place where coffee is brewing, the smell is amazing IMO.
Not liking coffee is kind of like not liking Chocolate IMO, the 2 beans are used very differently, chocolate is always with sweetener and often with cream.Have you tried coffee with a bit of cream in it? And maybe with a bit of sugar too.
But outside in nature there are so many much more appealing things to make into a drink
I think the stats disagree with you, not many drinks are more popular than coffee, I can only think of tea and beer that are equally popular, maybe also milk.
Coffee on the otherhand tastes awful
Well that’s highly subjective. I’m not a big coffee drinker, but good coffee absolutely tastes great.
smells like ball bearing grease
Again, highly subjective. Most people, even the ones that hate how coffee tastes, generally like the smell of fresh coffee. It’s a great aroma.
If you don’t drink it, your tummy hurts for it
Never experienced this
If you drink it you mind runs crazy and your heartbeat is not steady
You probably just have a caffeine sensitivity. Most people do not experience this.
So many things are getting harder to justify buying these days. Definitely been going out less in general. :(
It’s actually worse here in Denmark, prices on ground coffee have more than tripled since 3 years ago.
Back the we could get a 500g pack for a little less than $3.50 USD, now we get only 400g for $10, when on special offer you may be lucky to find it at $7.
So needless to say I always buy several bags when it’s on special offer. But even then it’s more than twice the price of 3 years ago.Some brands are now even reducing the packages to 350g. Which isn’t much more than a half size bag used to be.
And coffee is still way too cheap.
You’ve got coffee shrinkflation? In Germany it’s still 500 grams, but expensive, of course. I only buy the brands that are on offer.
Yes we have shrinkflation on coffee, we used to have 400g packages special roast that they claimed could be used to make as many cups of coffee as a 500g, but of course that’s bullshit, and it taste worse IMO.
Some brands still have 500g packages, and one of the most popular is 10,50 Euro!
And it’s been bought by American Keurig Dr Pepper, so I’ll never buy that again.
I really have an urge to put small American flags on that shit.
This picture is from a couple of days ago in Finland
No, I wasn’t brave enough to buy it, I have no idea how they can sell it so cheap
How much is five dollars dollars in USD?
4.99
Coffee prices will continue to go up; most people do not realize that already today climate collapse is responsible for part of the inflation. Coffee and chocolate plantations are suffering from erratic weather and droughts. In addition, demand for coffee is continuously increasing too; but overall all crops are suffering from lower productivity, so food will get more and more expensive… even if we manage to not pass the 2.5C global heating.
We’re going to be left with robusta beans, and I’m pissed.
No. You get artificial flavours and freeze dried instant coffee.
The price of coffee in a cafe has fuck all to do with coffee prices.
The cost of coffee in a cafe is more about staff and rent, sure, but when the raw ingredients go up, it still affects the price.
Let me think about this.
Sure does. They would lose money if the cost of the beans was more expensive than the coffee sold for to the customer.
Small scale growers/roasters have had 0% pressure to increase prices as their business does not rely on Brazilian hektofarms. You can get vastly better coffee at a comparative price if you care about the taste of your coffee.
Used to sit and drink coffee and talk to friends for hours at the small town diner for 52¢, bottomless.
I try to reduce my coffee/caffeine consumption but if I get a coffee at a diner, you’d better believe I’m slamming five or more.
There’s really no value in going to a coffee shop any more unless its to socialize, and the social element is dying by design. The coffee quality is never better than you can make at home for a tenth of the price, and most places are now redesigning their interiors so that they encourage people to move on, not hang out.
I mean look at the chair in OP’s pick - sit on that for more than 10 minutes and you’re going to have a crimp in your back. That’s an intentional design element to keep you moving and not taking up space for new customers.
You give me a coffee shop with big ass sofas and a piano and chess sets and wifi and I’ll gladly pay $5 a cup to hang out. I’ll probably end up spending another $20 while I’m there. But the coffee alone just ain’t worth it.
Totally agree. There’s one or two privately owned coffee shops that still have tables and chairs made for sitting and doing things at.
Forget it with any of the big chains. I’m halfway expecting some anti-homeless architecture on their small ass stools next time I’m there…which won’t be ever since they priced me out.
You give me a coffee shop with big ass sofas and a piano and chess sets and wifi and I’ll gladly pay $5 a cup to hang out. I’ll probably end up spending another $20 while I’m there. But the coffee alone just ain’t worth it.
I agree with Chandler. I heard Central Perk is cool.
Ground coffee is about $8 a bag at the grocery. Much cheaper to make your own at home.
AFAIK drip coffee is made from ground coffee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_coffeeThe difference is getting a coffee at a bar vs getting coffee at home, not switching ingredients.
OK doesn’t look like a bar tom me.
OP is not clear about that.
But yes buying out is always expensive.You’re right it’s not clear, but to me it’s a very unlikely price and a very unlikely cup for a coffee at home.
The price does not seem unlikely if it’s a pack of ground coffee.
That kind of cup is pretty normal here. Not as much as it used to be, but some people still prefer traditional coffee cups instead of mugs. And the little creamer thingy is pretty normal too if you use milk in your coffee.
Also most bars here would have bigger cups than that.
But it’s impossible to say for sure one way or the other. There is not a lot to go on in that picture.But the headline says “this coffee” and that would indicate it’s just the 1 cup of coffee.
So maybe it is a bar?
Coffee is going extinct, the price will only go up from here.
The point is that we should be able to maintain a certain standard of living…
Whats the point of constantly telling people to eat at home and not enjoy anything that costs money?
Why even eat food when we can just eat soylent? Why even eat when we can just live in a pod of goop and be connected to the matrix? Much cheaper to live like that!
Because if you continue paying the high prices, then companies will just increase them again. Because the market will bear it.
The only way to stop it is to vote with your wallet. It only took like 1% of subscribers canceling to get Disney to change its stance on Kimmel.
It wasn’t subscribers. It was Disney adults cancelling their vacations. That’s how Disney actually makes money, they won’t fuck with those people.
but you’re comparing disney to a local cafe…
these guys aren’t just willy-nilly increasing the price of coffee for funsies. a lot of these issues have to do with supply chain, commercial rents, and billionaire created issues… the real solution isn’t just to stay home and let your local cafe go bankrupt… need to solve the big picture issues that are causing inflation without the wage increases that we all need.
You make an excellent point. It had just occurred to me because i have been having to cut back and find solutions to ridiculous price gouging like this. Between the high prices and the cost cutting quality of eating out these days, i find myself making a lot more stuff at home. I’ve also had to remove a lot of restaurants from my list of places to eat. One place charged me $30 for scrambled eggs, oatmeal, and iced tea. I haven’t been back.
and i wasn’t calling your post out specifically… i see this all over the internet… people complain about the price of going out and the advice is always “just stay home and make food/coffee!”
i don’t want to just survive on the cheapest possible budget and never enjoy anything… that’s just a race to the bottom and ends with us sitting in little pods living out whatever dystopian nightmare they predicted decades ago…
No worries. I think we’re on the same page.
In microeconomic theory, an agent gains utility from consumption and has a willingness to pay. If a normal product has a higher price than the willingness to pay is, he will not consume that product. He will consume another product.
I am not sure if I shall laugh but you are suggesting to ignore the willingness to pay and just pay whatever the price is because your utility from dining out is incredibly high.
You can easily substitute food at a restaurant. Food at restaurants is mostly not even good anymore. You are doing yourself a favor if you do not consume their ultra high processed food.
Also, you may have enough money to spend as much as you want for a cup of coffe but there are people, most people, who can (or should) not afford a cup for 5 bucks because buying a pack for 8 lasts all month vs 150 if consumed every day.
Craving is a very bad state for the mind. Becoming free of craving gives you more than consuming all the shiny stuff that you see all day long, everywhere.
If you’d stop buying avacado toast, you’d finally have enough money to buy an NFT of a house
The most expensive stuff I buy is $18 per 12oz (used to be 16oz) bag. Still makes about 20 cups of some of the best coffee money can buy.
The price of good coffee has definitely risen lately, but the price at the bottom of the market has really cranked up. Something like a can of folgers has basically doubled in the past year or so.
I say this, but i shouldn’t jinx it. I’m sure there are a lot of companies who are salivating at the idea of jacking up the price of ground coffee at the grocery to match the ridiculous expense of retail.
