85 Replies to “How was your lunch?”

    1. Looks like it was frozen for a month and thawed out in the microwave then sold as ‘fresh’.

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      Dude… once Justin and the WEF run all the carbon criminal farmers
      out of business, you’ll be dreaming about the crappy fast food you
      used to be able to get.

      Nine meals from anarchy.

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  1. I’m old enough to remember when my father could take a family of six to McDonald’s for supper and get change from a $20.

    1. Yeah, but your house was only worth $40k back then! Oh wait! That’s actually a GOOD thing … when The Canadian Dream was still affordable

        1. We have TWO In and Out Burgers in my Nor CAL suburban zone. There is a massive line of cars at their drive in aisle virtually all day long.

          BTW … there are only TWO In and Outs because every single new franchise gets fought with vitriol by every Planning Agency and Activists … the new restaurant proposals all get killed. You can guess why …

    2. I am old enough to know when you got a burger and fries for 50 cents, and gas was 26 cents a freaking gallon, not the BS metric lie.

      1. My dad used to reminisce about the days he could eat, fill his car, and go to a movie for under $5. He was also so offended they raised the price of a pack of smokes from 42 to 45 cents that he quit cold turkey.

    3. When they built the first McDonalds in Oakville about 1970, you could get 2 cheeseburgers, fries and a coke and get change back from a dollar.

    1. Well, “they” are trying real hard to make sure there is no food to cook. Keep up now.

    2. 1000 thumbs up!

      That “food” has always been expensive and always unhealthy.

      Look at the physical state of the people serving it to get an idea of what it does to you.

    3. I won’t consider someone an adult if they lack the ability to cook. Seriously, if you can’t help cook breakfast for a cottage full of the sunburnt and semi-starved then you’re sitting at the kids table with a bib on.

      1. And, if you’re Prinz Dummkopf, you expect that someone else cooks your meals for you.

    4. Yes, but other food is also expensive.

      It sounds like something a convoy might address.

    5. I havnt been able to find good quality beef for less than 4 bucks a pound. Even that is going up in Sept.

      I can’t do less than 1500/mo on groceries for a small family of 8. Even cooking at home is very expensive. Garden input costs are going up too. And that only provides fresh produce for a few months in any case.

  2. With the major fast food chains available in Canada, I find you get the most beef for the buck at Wendy’s…a triple patty Dave burger with cheese combo will run you under 15$….more protein than carb is the ticket.

    1. Had a great burger at A&W a month or so ago. It cost about 11 bucks, but it was one of the best damn burgers I had eaten in some time. My wife went and picked them up. With fries, onion rings, drinks and the governments share, the bill was 32 dollars. It was still a real good burger.

      1. Had to be the Uncle Burger.
        Me I’m partial to Wendy’s Dave’s Triple Burger w/cheese , chilli and Frosty.
        Can just feel my chest tightening up thinking about it.

      2. “Had a great burger at A&W a month or so ago. It cost about 11 bucks, but it was one of the best damn burgers I had eaten in some time.”

        I vote for A&W as well (for fast food). Something about their meat makes them just taste better than most. Wendy’s is second, Burger King third. Burger King has huge burgers and some interesting condiments, but the meat tastes bland to me.

        1. Our A&W was good then new Canadians took over.
          It went downhill fast. Have not been back.
          McDonalds, BurgerKing and Wendy’s are all good the last time I went, but the past 2.5 years we stayed away from the NAZI protocols so I have mastered a great burger at home so why bother going out? I can feed two people for under $10 with fresh everything including home fries if I choose to make them.

  3. I enjoy telling yutes working in stores that when I was in school I could get: a coke (10 cents) a chocolate bar (10 cents) and a small bag of chips (5 cents) for a quarter. The stunned looks — priceless!

    Graduated in 1965 a full 6 years before Nixon’s infamous closure of the “gold window” in 1971.

    Gubmint did not give us money. It was invented by the people spontaneously over a very long period of experimentation. There is an urgent need for a total separation of state and money. Chance of this happening: 0%, which is why I lost all interest in the Austrian School of economics think tanks.

    1. Not as old as you, my favourite is telling people I could order a beer in the University pub and give the waitress a buck and get a smooch because it was better than a 15% tip. About 1980ish

      1. $.20 a glass at Riverview Arms in Freddie NB.. 72/73.. College Daze..Best years of my life.

        1. My first beer was $0.15 a draft or 2 for $0.25 at Magnan’s in Point St. Charles in 1968 the day after Bobby Kennedy was shot’ Got in at 18 because I was 6′ 2″ and looked legal. A luxury in university was a cheeseburger, fries and a coke for $0.75. Back then they were really good.

          Today you can hardly get out for much less than $15 bucks.

          Sucks

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          “$.20 a glass at Riverview Arms in Freddie NB.”

          About the same at the Embassy Ballroom at Bay & Belair in Toronto.
          Back in the times when people weren’t being shot like wild animals
          in the street
          like clockwork.

          If only someone could figure out where we went wrong.

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        3. Hey Ultra Maga, the last time I was in Riverview Arms in Fred, the Canada/Russia
          playoff was being broadcast. Hello fer a party!!

      2. My favourite is telling a yout they gave me the wrong change, and I didn’t even use a calulater

      3. Going to the high school dance if 74 I would stop at a pub and have 8 12oz draft for 20c a piece and a 5c tip for a grand sum of $2.00. Good buzz, good times.

    2. And my $0.50 weekly allowance went far in those days … add a couple lawn-mowing jobs to that … and I was FEASTING on junk food. But like a hard-working farmer … I burned it all off running around the fields and hills.

      1. Where you you in 62? I was driving around Manhattan in my uncle’s new Chrysler New Port. Thought I was king of the world. There were no street people that I could remember and no one ever bothered me. Today I would not spend 2 minutes in s**t hole.

        1. I was 7yo … playing with pollywogs in the creeks that extended for MILES … undisturbed … in pristine natural condition on the FAR edge of the Sacramento suburbs. Running in fields of poppies and lupine … with grasses higher than me. Now my childhood home is in a sea of suburban-cum-urban squalor. NOT one of the best neighborhoods in the metro area.

          Progress … yecccch

  4. Hope y’all are looking forward to the $60 burger, and when you buy it you think “Man, that’s a pretty good burger for only $60.”

    Because the other burger joints charge $80.

    I’m looking forward to paying off my debts with that devalued money. Sweet.

  5. BC?
    Hidden is the CARBON TAX, and possibly the lower mainland virtue signal super duper tax on fossil fuel which moves everything from producer to consumer.
    Alberta, Yukon, Nunavut and NW Territories at 5% total tax.
    Best to feed yourself food prepared at home.

  6. Here…let me make you feel better about that price. Five Guys received over $5 Million in taxpayer money under the Paycheck Protection Plan. So $20 is undercutting what you actually paid to that PRIVATE business.

    Welcome to the Land of No Repercussions.

  7. Even in the US, Five Guys has always been on the pricey side.

    Do they have In-N-Out in Canda yet? By far, the best,

  8. Five Guys has always been over priced.
    But damn if I don’t want a burger now.

  9. Large hot dog and large pop with free refills at Costco, still a buck fifty. I won’t pay a fin for a burger and shake let alone twenty bucks.

    1. True dat.
      Love their cooked bbq chicken, that’s a deal.
      But what is exactly in that dog ?

      1. It’s advertised as all beef and kosher. I trust Costco, I don’t think they’d pull a fast one on their customers, they got too much to lose.

        Heard a story that one of the two guys that started Costco said he wanted to raise the price of the dog and pop and his partner said he’d kill him if he even brought it up again. I’ve been shopping there since 1985 and the price has never changed.

      2. You should ask yourself what’s in that chicken?

        It’s saturated in brine, before they cook it. Enough sodium to kill a horse.

        Gimme that Polish Dog, 7 days a week. Now, if those cheapos at Costco would return the self-serve condiments again. Enough with the shitty little packets of mustard and ketchup/catsup. The only good dog is one that oozes both everywhere!

  10. Local golf club offers 12″ pizza for $20.50.

    Good pizza, but 2 years ago it was $12

  11. If Canadians quit being little bitches and just committed to an economic boycott, buyonly precisely what you need and when you need and be viciously local with who and where your dollars go to, they’d win something. Plenty of wants still being conspicuously satisfied.

    1. Re. buy local. I bought a jar of jam at Costco that was made in France and my wife said ‘we make jam in Canada’. I told her all of that is made in Ontario or Quebec and they’re just as foreign to me as France.

      1. the Grimsby Costco only had that French jam when they used to carry the E.D Smith brand which is located in Grimsby in a neck of the woods that grows it’s fair share of fruit. Oh well, time to start making my own again

      2. I’m sure if you’ve got to have jam some old lady within a days’ drive can hook you up. The only food we buy that come from outside of about 10 miles is the crap from Costco for the kids that they shouldn’t eat anyway. Say la vee.

  12. Garwood Grille on Pembina. Best burgers in the city and can get two deluxes (1/3lb loaded burger, fries and coleslaw) for $20.

    Too bad they close for the summer….

  13. In order to get the best bang for your buck at fast food burger joints , always order an extra patty on your single burger.
    It’s usually less than 2 dollars more,and you end up with twice the meat.
    When I go for a burger I usually go to Harvey’s ,because they have a multi grain bun and an extra patty is like $1.75 more

  14. I stick to my venison burgers. Hell of a lot cheaper and a hell of a lot better.

  15. I’m perfecting my Oklahoma Smash Burger the way God intended it and all with the help of this gentleman.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo8GVZkYEHE&t=440s
    Making my own fries as well with a Tfal. When you’ve impressed my chip truck aficionado wife…you’ve done something special.

    That said – A tasty looking burger, Francisco!!!!

  16. I haven’t been to a FF joint in months. Too damn expensive anymore. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a wave of bankruptcies in the near future if this keeps up.

  17. But I have a question. Why is turdo la doo mentioned on the bill?

    Oral Syphoning POS

  18. There was a place in Montreal I used to go to, in the early 2000s-2010s called “La Pataterie”, a standard greasy spoon, could get a bacon double cheesburger, fries and a pop for less than $6.

    1. Jumbo’s Restaurant in Lachine Quebec, only open breakfast and lunch..
      https://www.facebook.com/JumbosRestaurantMontreal

      They have a healthy side and and unhealthy side of the restaurant.. Pasta is great (healthy) and Chef’s Poutine is to die for (unhealthy)..

      Way better than LaFleur! Too bad Ben’s closed..

      Closer to home, Flavours Of Montreal and Pauls Pizza in Airdrie… There’s a Fat Guys, I Mean 5 Guys, as well, if you must.
      Went there once, when it first opened..

      1. I remember the last time I ate at Peter’s – Single 99ȼ, Double $1.99, Triple $2.99.

        I’m dating myself, aren’t I? ………….DX

        1. 1978ish, high school teacher would take us by Peter’s after driving us in to a Centennial’s game. $2.40 got you a double, small fries and a shake. Doubles were $0.85 IIRC. Almost would fill a teenage boy up.

    1. Yep … $8.05 for a double cheese burger, Milk shakes $6.50. Quality is slipping just a bit, but both are still very eatable.
      Boogie Burgers (Calgary) have some pretty outrageous burgers. The Don’t Fear The Reaper burger $22.00, contains 4 patties, 2 slices of cheddar cheese, 4 strips of bacon, a butterflied hot dog, fried egg, red sauce, white onion, tomato, shredded lettuce, and topped off with a mini corn dog.

  19. There used to be a place not far from the UBC campus in the western part of Vancouver some 40 years ago. I can’t remember the name, but good burgers and that’s where I had my first Kalhua milkshake…..

  20. The last Five Guys I went to was four years ago near Savannah. OK burger but way too expensive. I just had a great burger in Prince Edward County, Ontario this past weekend for $10 including excellent fries.

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      The sub at ‘Farmers Daughter’ on Hwy 2 between Belleville
      and Trenton is ‘to die for.’ Can’t remember the price.

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  21. What do you expect in a place where the cashier spells her own name wrong.

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