kingbudo101
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Jun 4, 2026 4:36 PM
kingbudo101
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glovelyday
Four meals for 25 bucks versus four meals for 60 bucks? Even I can do that math.
beelzebob23
Buy real potatoes instead of frozen pre-cut, and maybe you can afford something to drink.
GratuaCuun
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thisisjunk
The price for the homemade on the left is per serving. On the right is total. The restaurant is experiencing the same costs as the rest of us.
Kyzyl
The food ingredients need space to be prepared and tools to cook them with. If you don't have a full kitchen, then it gets even more expansive buying a pan and stove and stuff.
First burger costs $5k, second burger costs $5.
ifounditunderthere
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beelzebob23
Hmmm. Where is this "Burger Shack" you speak of?
sascottsn
Ok, so they are gonna make homemade burgers, but not homemade fries, or cut the onion or tomato’s and onions themselves, and use kraft singles?
Yeah, sure saving extra money there…
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
'made with ai' is the mark of quality, no way anybody could've put that together themselves
meganical
Nobody even mentioned that they are either missing mustard or mayo on the right, depending on the type of burger they got from BK
DarkAthena
"real version" made with AI...but yeah, you still get way more burger for you buck doing homemade.
CallMeMcGyver
$7.99 for chopped meat? Uh... maybe on sale or if you find a dead cow laying around... try more like closer to $12 for that same size package around here. The other ingredients are more or less accurate within 50¢ + (not -)... but also fuck McBurgerkings... And that red headed bitch with the pigtails too.
gitguuud
1. You can make more burgers with the home cooked burgers
2. In what fantasy land is the burger combo also not increasing in price?
dunkum09
right? personally i used to go to McDonalds pretty often about 20 years ago. the same combo i got then has more than doubled in price now, and as best I can tell that holds pretty much across the board. other than Costco Hotdogs, i guess.
zOriginal
People eat Taco Bell
Hatsodoom
Who the fuck uses those shitty cheese singles?
Idkillpickanamelater
I hate to do the "young people are____" but like Gen Z and younger millennials really love delivery apps dont really like cooking. Then spending far far far too much money on it. I work with a girl that gets uber eats for lunch every day because she says "I want to spend more talking with everyone at lunch why would I waste my time driving to get it?" bro just pack your own lunch and you do the same thing.
etopsirhc
ikr! i calculated how much a single meal delivery was compared to just buying it at resturant and before tip it was about 75% more expensive on most of the ones i'd order. fuck that!
beelzebob23
People get defensive any time someone tells them what to do. You also have the option of minding your own business.
DarkJaeger
I'm not going to make burgers at home. With that much beef, I'll do something that will last the week. Lasagna is good.
thror
the "real version" is bullshit. i get enough for 4 people with all of that. so the ACTUAL REAL VERSION is still **$6.15**
defaultname2000
the things on the right give you several burgers (and leftover lettuce)
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
it gives you zero burgers. you need eggs and seasoning to make the beef into a patty.
kingbudo101
Unless you are making exrta 1" thick burger patties, you dont need eggs. For smash burgers you definitely dont need eggs
somethingcleverlol
99.999% of the time making your own food will be cheaper. If you are too lazy to cook/too lazy to learn, just say that.
andexer
Yes, but some things are difficult to make comparatively at home. For example, homemade fries just never turn out comparative to purchased. Needs a dedicated frying setup, which just isn't worth the overhead for most home cooks.
dunkum09
the opposite can be true too though. the frozen bag fries are almost definitely not as good as the fast food fries, but the homemade burger is probably way better than the fast food burger (unless you were specifically craving greasy fast food burger, which, you know, sometimes)
DutchBoeremeisie
Just because it's different, doesn't mean it's bad. We've been eating air fryer fries for almost fifteen years now and they're delicious.
andexer
Matter of taste. Have tried numerous times to make fresh and frozen fries and never able to achieve anything tolerable to eat, IMO.
TheBymby
Have you considered lowering your standards? That's a joke, but what's not a joke is once you've upgraded some aspect of food it is REALLY hard to downgrade. When I was poor I was so happy with 99 cent bologna, 99cent off brand American cheese, and whatever value pack of lunch meat I could find. I think I'd gag if I had that now. I guess what I'm saying is, you upgraded too far!
andexer
I get you, but nah. I just don't eat fries generally. I cook most meals, at home, for me and my family, and don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I just meant that some things don't translate well to the home cook.
RalphH
you need to have a working kitchen and time and not be depressed because you experience the 20st catastrophic-century-event in your life. (i really love cooking but more often than not i just can not because it is just to hard to stand up and do something, and yes, i am getting help)
RalphH
and yes, cooking and preparing is much much cheaper.
spitfires2000
Should it be mentioned the amount of groceries on the right would make - at least - 4 burgers? Without the coke tho. :-)
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
makes zero burgers. you need eggs and seasoning to make hamburger pattys.
Regis500
No, you do not need an egg for a smashburger. A true smashburger relies entirely on high-fat ground beef (like 80/20 chuck) and the smashing process itself to bind the meat, rather than binders like eggs or breadcrumbs, which turn the patty into meatloaf. [1]
Clockworkdancerobot
The secret is Capitalism. As covid hit, a lot more people cooked at home, so capitalists jacked up prices repeatedly at every excuse. In Shareholder calls company CEOS admit to drooling over the prospect of blaming inflation for raising prices and therefore profit.
kingbudo101
It is still way cheaper to cook at home than to order fast food lol
Clockworkdancerobot
This depends on where you are. Grocery prices can very widely on your location. Access and pricing depends on who is nearby. Cities tend to have higher priced groceries because they can pay more and some groups have less ability to travel further out, thus they price higher. Heck, even in city areas you can see big swings depending on area.
kingbudo101
I can guarantee you, anywhere in the world, it will be cheaper to make food at home then to order takeout
Clockworkdancerobot
Sure, I think I can agree with that.
DaniElleXDress
Not defensive but empathetic. The real cost/commodity is time & convenience.
It takes a lot of time and effort to plan, shop, cook, & clean… and only becomes efficient when maintained for multiple people multiple days of the week… which is a part or full-time job by itself.
Not everyone has the time or partner with time to dedicate to maintain that. It’s like saying “you know you can sew your own clothes and save money?”
AzgarOgly
planning and shopping and cleaning and cooking is called life, being an adult
providing for yoursefl or yourself and the family
of course, you can pay someone to live your life for you
kingbudo101
DaniElleXDress
I think you miss-understand. I personally cook 95% of me & partners meals mostly all from locally sourced scratch ingredients, then compost & recycle 95% of the waste.
But I pay for other services that I could do myself to spend time how I want.
Just trying to say if you throw out judgmental conclusions about others life balances, of-course they’ll be defensive.
kingbudo101
excuses. even if you seriously dont have a single hour in a week to go shopping, you can get groceries delviered. Cooking can be as easy or complex as you want it to be. You can buy ingreidents to make a sandwhiches and assemble one in 5 minutes if you truely have zero time
DaniElleXDress
That’s awesome you have it all figured out!
Life is tough we all have our strengths and weaknesses… but yeah generally people are sensitive to having their life critiqued like that.
RUFingKiddingMe
Sorry but you could meal prep for the whole week in under an hour. That's not a strength. Eating every meal from a drive through is not only crazy expensive but horribly bad for you. I think anyone can find the time to make a sandwich or a can of soup. Even just a pot of spaghetti that you can refrigerate or freeze for a quick reheat will only cost you around $10 for 5+ meals.
kingbudo101
yup. I meal prep for the week. At most it takes an hour of my time. Then for the rest of the week I reheat it. Its really is easy
endem1c
I don't think the sewing analogy holds -- I wear pieces of clothing for years, so buying rather than making is an OK tradeoff since I'm not doing it often. Meals are every day (hopefully), so it makes more sense to invest the time to learn to do it yourself.
DaniElleXDress
It’s definitely an exaggerated example. This is great discussion thanks!
I think it holds at scale.. food is daily, but aren’t clothes daily? You wear clean clothes every day yes? They dirty/wear/tear, outgrow (for kids), every time you use them.
I try to mend & fix myself.. but that takes time. Some would just throw away the ripped garment & buy a new one. Some may pay to dry-clean EVERYTHING… I think this would be crazy wasteful, but if it allows you to focus on other things whose to judge?
DaniElleXDress
Some choose to be more fashionable and this makes it harder and more wasteful..
But don’t some choose to eat simply while others need more variety to enjoy life?
We all hold an incredible balance in life. Try not to judge others for their less-logical to you way of handling that balance is all I’m trying to say.
DaniElleXDress
And yes you can wear jeans for years… but how many people have the knowledge, experience, tools, machines to make pair of pants. You paid someone to make them cause they have a factory and experienced workers and can whip out hundred a day…. Like a fast food chain maybe???
My granny used make her family’s clothes from scratch, it is doable, it’s just not a preferred way to spend time anymore. And my granny had 50s era single income finances.
Myotragus
Yeah, it's cheaper to make your own, but $8/lb for ground beef is a fucking embarrassment. I live in the middle of black Angus ranch country, and I've removed beef from my diet for budgetary reasons.
Sorrontis
REmember, on the homemade makes 4 burgers
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
well im only feeding 2 people and then ive got 4 buns left over. oh and the homemade one in the image makes 0 burgers. unless you like unseasoned beef that wont form a patty because you left out the eggs.
FetaForMoses
Beef and buns yes, but the cheese like 8, the lettuce 40 and the ketchup 80
Sorrontis
exactly
CheesecakePi
At least.
meganical
Unless you use two patties per burger. I can’t tell if the burger combo is single or double patty
Sorrontis
Fair, its not a perfect 1-to-1 but still
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
the "home made burgers" is missing a lot of ingredients. you cant make a hamburger with just raw ground beef. you need eggs to make a patty and you probably want some sort of seasoning.
justsotired
seasons are a seprate thing. You can get bottle of seaons for cheap and it can last of months. Also eggs? you dont need eggs lol unless you are making thick steak house burgers. even then they arent entirely necessary
Idkillpickanamelater
what burgers are you make that need eggs???. seasonings are one time cost that last a lot of meals. doesnt make sense to add it here
whoknowsanymorelol
you do not need eggs. Sure add saly, pepper, and garlic powder too. then you can use those for 100 other meals
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
how are you keeping the beef in a patty shape?
whoknowsanymorelol
have you never cooked burgers before? its not a meat loaf. It doent need eggs to keep its shape
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
ive clearly cooked more burgers than you
whoknowsanymorelol
not really if you think you need eggs lol
Babomonkey
Yeah, but the ingredients on the right are enough to make at six of the combos on the left and still have stuff left over
ifounditunderthere
Hmmm... maybe more like 3.5? https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cjF0Nm1nY29qb21sNjk2MmE1ZDBmMzk2b2xmbTc5MDJpZnI4N29lYSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/9zMrydRBc7VqTbbZWo/200w.webp
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
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Buckman1988
1 lb beef / 4 = $2 for one thick or two thin patties
$2.5 / 8 buns = ~$0.32 per bun
$2.69 for 24 cheese slices = ~$0.12, or $0.24 for two slices
$4.29 / 5 = $0.86 fries serving
$3.29 / 25 servings = $0.14 ketchup
79 cents onion / 4 = ~$0.20
$1.89 / 4 = $0.47 yucky green stuff
$0.99 / 4 ~$0.25 tomato
$4.48 Per serving ~ 4 McDoubles in 2008 or ~18 bananas
terajack2048
Switch to generic products it would be even lower
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
guess my wife and I are eating burgers for 3 meals in a row.
and the right one is missing ingredients. enjoy your unseasoned beef that wont stay in a patty because you didnt have eggs.
Babomonkey
Buy 80/20 beef and leave the eggs out of the equation.
kingbudo101
you very confident about needing eggs in your burgers and that is very wrong. also seasonings are both cheap and last a long time
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
ah i see the problem. you dont know how to cook.
Regis500
No, you do not need an egg for a smashburger. A true smashburger relies entirely on high-fat ground beef (like 80/20 chuck) and the smashing process itself to bind the meat, rather than binders like eggs or breadcrumbs, which turn the patty into meatloaf. [1]
MauroMolinero
Americans when they learn that buying food outside costs more than making it themselves (they didn't learn math at school due to malnourishment and because their government gutted public schools. its sad)
IndependenceHallPhiladelphiaPA
if only that were true.
MauroMolinero
it is true buddy. buying food from the grocery store and making shit yourself is cheaper than buying food from a restaurant.
Them3OtherGuys
You won't have any meat left over. That's only a pound of beef at most, which would be four Quarter Pounders, not six.
See? Americans can math, you just have to put it in terms they understand.
Babomonkey
I don't see anywhere indicating the size of the patty on that burger but it doesn't look big enough to be a quarter pounder. Now maybe you eat at the place often enough to know their patty sizes and prices so I'll allow you may be the voice of expertise.
ArchaeoEejit
But my family is 3 people which would be 1/3 pounders which is smaller than 1/4 because 3 is smaller than 4!
alittlekinkinthenuts
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