You’re assuming it’s different in the US. Here in LA, a large Domino’s pizza with a few toppings costs $27, while a small pizzeria near us has a pizza that is the same size, with the same toppings, but tastes 100x better than Domino’s, and it’s $17. People don’t bother to even try looking for places to eat beyond just watching ads that are filled with obvious marketing tactics.
It’s insanity. Every time in the last month I’ve thought about ordering food I opt not to because of those charges. Your $8 sandwich is going to become $20 and at that point the chicken and rice in your fridge starts to look pretty tasty again.
Yeah, we have that kind of stuff. In here, the cheapest (tiny-sized) one is around R$ 21,90. For R$21.90, I can order one from a pizza place in one of the poorer neighborhoods and it’ll come better and bigger. The larger ones here are R$ 91,90. Minimum wage here is R$ 1300,00 a month, which is around 248,22 dollars. So they’re prohibitively expensive, low-quality and, frankly, just a waste for one to feel like a gringo for a day.
The kicker? Domino’s and fast-food in Brazil like McDonald’s tend to be expensive, on top of crappy.
Why? Because “oooh, it’s something the Americans do, monkey see, monkey do.”
We call that “complexo de vira-lata,” the “mutt complex.”
You’re assuming it’s different in the US. Here in LA, a large Domino’s pizza with a few toppings costs $27, while a small pizzeria near us has a pizza that is the same size, with the same toppings, but tastes 100x better than Domino’s, and it’s $17. People don’t bother to even try looking for places to eat beyond just watching ads that are filled with obvious marketing tactics.
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Yeah, $27 is before you add almost 10% sales tax, exorbitant “delivery fees” that don’t even go to the driver, and a tip
It’s insanity. Every time in the last month I’ve thought about ordering food I opt not to because of those charges. Your $8 sandwich is going to become $20 and at that point the chicken and rice in your fridge starts to look pretty tasty again.
Yeah, we have that kind of stuff. In here, the cheapest (tiny-sized) one is around R$ 21,90. For R$21.90, I can order one from a pizza place in one of the poorer neighborhoods and it’ll come better and bigger. The larger ones here are R$ 91,90. Minimum wage here is R$ 1300,00 a month, which is around 248,22 dollars. So they’re prohibitively expensive, low-quality and, frankly, just a waste for one to feel like a gringo for a day.
But I didn’t know it was that awful in LA.
my heart cries seeing a 17€ pizza
Yeah, there’s very little chance of finding a decent pizza here for less than $17. That’s already pretty cheap for a pizza here.
WTF? Domino’s and Pizza Hut in India have full size stuffed base topping pizzas for $4.
Same here, a good genuine pizza costs about 6/7€ where I live and in naples costs like 4€, on the other hand an average domino’s costed like 14€
Gonna steal that term lmao
Wow, I didn’t know that. I’ll tell my grandmother (she’s from Naples - or ‘Napule’ as she says) just to gauge ger reaction XD
And, please, use it well, comrade!