America, portion sizes are killing

our wallets.  One of my most favoritest food items is the Fast Food Pizza, which is made by topping a cheese pizza with two cheeseburgers, two crunchy tacos, 12 chicken nuggets, a 'large' order of french fries, and a 'large' order of chow mein noodles.  I'm going to prove to you that American restaurants are overcharging on the meager amounts of food they give us by making this delicious food item with store bought products and another with restaurant products.  We will then compare the prices, and I'll prove to you that they do infact charge too much.

First, let's start with my shopping list for the homemade Fast Food Pizza.  We have:

• 1x DiGiorno Cheese Pizza: $5
• 1/2 lb. ground beef: $1.50
• Package Kraft American slices: $2
• 8x Hamburger buns: $1
• 12x Taco shell: $1
• 1 head lettuce: $1
• Frozen chicken nuggets, 36 count: $5
• Frozen french fries: $2
• 6x Ramen noodles: $6/1 (can't pass up a deal)
• Grand Total: $24.50

• Pizza: $5
• 2x burgers: 1.40
• 2x tacos: 1.25
• 12x nuggets: 1.75
• Fries: .50
• Noodles: .35
• Grand Total: $10.25

• Large Cheese Pizza, Pizza Hut: $12
• 2x Double Cheeseburger, McD's: $2
• 2x Crunchy Tacos, Taco Bell: $2
• 12 ct. Chicken Fries, BK: $5
• Large Fries, McD's: $3
• Large Chow Mein, Panda Express: $5
• Grand Total: $29!!!

You posted about drinks being too expensive aswell didnt you...

Omn nom nom nom.....

What?

Or you can buy reasonably priced goods in a grocery store that *won't* kill you within 3 years...

This isn't surprising, restaurants have always been charging people more money than it would cost for the consumer to actually make it themselves. But that's the whole point, they are profiting on people's laziness. Why go through all the hassle of making it yourself when you can just order it, even though it usually takes the same amount of time of making it at home.

"topping a cheese pizza with two cheeseburgers, two crunchy tacos, 12 chicken nuggets, a 'large' order of french fries, and a 'large' order of chow mein noodles."

This must win the award for the most awkward to eat Pizza in history.

"Or you can buy reasonably priced goods in a grocery store that *won't* kill you within 3 years..."

This kind of thing is pretty much a staple of conservatism. Let the free market decide how much a dominos pizza is worth. I certainly dont have any problem with it, but if you do, i recommend you stop buying those food products, because as long as people will buy their product at that price, they will continue to sell it at that price. 

a friend of mine visited the US to stay with her father, she sent me a picture of some food she bought at wendy's and it was crazy big in size it would probably be equivilent to meals for me

your paying for convenience, besides you can get a large cheese pizza for 6 bucks at pizza hut now.

those prices dont add up at all either.

you forgot the ketchup, pickles and mustard.

"MC_Izawa said:

"6x Ramen noodles: $6/1 (can't pass up a deal)

that's expensive! its 15 cents per package here, or $1.50 for 12."

The key to saving money is buying ingredients as a smart shopper.

Gunner said:

"your paying for convenience"

"MC_Izawa said:

"6x Ramen noodles: $6/1 (can't pass up a deal)

that's expensive! its 15 cents per package here, or $1.50 for 12."

"Commando said:

"MC_Izawa said:

"6x Ramen noodles: $6/1 (can't pass up a deal)

that's expensive! its 15 cents per package here, or $1.50 for 12."

Damn where are you then?"

Ummmm.....what? Are you trying to say Americans eat too much?
 
That reminds me, it's time for fourth meal.

2 bags of Dole mixed lettuce - $1.99
Bottle of ranch dressing - $1.99 (every other week)
16oz. water from the kitchen sink - $0.005
Box of Nature Valley Granola Bars - $1.99
Bag of 10 Apples - $3.99
4 Lean Cuisine or Healthy Choice Meals - $8.00
Bag of Chex Mix - $1.50

So it costs me about $20.00 every Sunday night when I go shopping.  Yeah, I am trying to point out that I eat healthier foods and it's too bad more people don't.  You would feel better, look better and save a hell of alot of money.  No one is forcing anyone to lay down $11.99 for a large Pizza Hut pizza.  Yeah, a salad doesn't taste as good as a pizza, but a fat ass doesn't look as good as Miss February.

Dude I bought a fucking Whopper meal at BK the other day with a medium fry and drink, and almost couldn't finish that shit. And I'm a pretty big teenager that can eat a shit load. The drink sizes is what really got me, a fucking medium size drink looked like an XXL. I was like "wtf I think this is the wrong size"and the fat black chick was all like "naw baby that be the right size."

"LeoMinor said:

"2 bags of Dole mixed lettuce - $1.99 Bottle of ranch dressing - $1.99 (every other week)16oz. water from the kitchen sink - $0.005Box of Nature Valley Granola Bars - $1.99Bag of 10 Apples - $3.994 Lean Cuisine or Healthy Choice Meals - $8.00Bag of Chex Mix - $1.50So it costs me about $20.00 every Sunday night when I go shopping.  Yeah, I am trying to point out that I eat healthier foods and it's too bad more people don't.  You would feel better, look better and save a hell of alot of money.  No one is forcing anyone to lay down $11.99 for a large Pizza Hut pizza.  Yeah, a salad doesn't taste as good as a pizza, but a fat ass doesn't look as good as Miss February."

I cant beleive u just spent 20 bones on a fancy salad. Ummmm....."

Uhh... what? I would have happily settled for just the pizza...

"Dude I bought a fucking Whopper meal at BK the other day with a medium fry and drink, and almost couldn't finish that shit. And I'm a pretty big teenager that can eat a shit load. The drink sizes is what really got me, a fucking medium size drink looked like an XXL. I was like "wtf I think this is the wrong size"and the fat black chick was all like "naw baby that be the right size.""

Of course restaurants overcharge, its a business as everything costs more than its "true" value, but you also need to remember there are employees they need to pay, make profit to keep a business open, pay for rent, etc, etc.
You also claim that Americans over eat and make crazy large portions...but ummm never heard of a "Home Made Fast Food Pizza" in all 23 years of my life, as a pizza with say some vegetables and meat is the normal but topping a pizza with another class of food like mexican, and continental...ya "we" are clearly the over eaters. I think maybe a "Home Made Fast Food Pizza" would feed a family of 8, 1 slice per person.

Man. Some food is really cheap. I could live off of multivitamins and ramen and a few other foods. Sometimes it blows my mind how much could be saved for other things. Now if I just liked tap water....

"2 bags of Dole mixed lettuce - $1.99 Bottle of ranch dressing - $1.99 (every other week)16oz. water from the kitchen sink - $0.005Box of Nature Valley Granola Bars - $1.99Bag of 10 Apples - $3.994 Lean Cuisine or Healthy Choice Meals - $8.00Bag of Chex Mix - $1.50So it costs me about $20.00 every Sunday night when I go shopping.  Yeah, I am trying to point out that I eat healthier foods and it's too bad more people don't.  You would feel better, look better and save a hell of alot of money.  No one is forcing anyone to lay down $11.99 for a large Pizza Hut pizza.  Yeah, a salad doesn't taste as good as a pizza, but a fat ass doesn't look as good as Miss February."

"Man. Some food is really cheap. I could live off of multivitamins and ramen and a few other foods. Sometimes it blows my mind how much could be saved for other things. Now if I just liked tap water...."

"Maxszy said:

"Commando said:

"MC_Izawa said:

"6x Ramen noodles: $6/1 (can't pass up a deal)

that's expensive! its 15 cents per package here, or $1.50 for 12."

Damn where are you then?"

Auburn, Al. They're 17 cents in my hometown, Mobile Al."

"Omn nom nom nom.....What?"

Thank god for Little Ceaser's Hot-n-Ready $5 pizzas. Those are $5, ready to order pizzas you just grab and go, then put whatever you like on at home for much cheaper than a traditional pizza joint.

In these tough economic times, we must cut costs wherever we can, but I'll be sodomized with a spoon before I stop eating my pizza.

I swear when I opened this thread I thought it would be a comment on how most American restaurants have serving sizes that are larger than they commonly are in other countries.  As a result, America is fat and in poor health.  Heavily fried and rich in calories, the food most Americans enjoy when they go out to eat leads to higher rates of heart disease and other related illnesses.  Instead the thread is a diatribe of how eating out is more expensive than preparing the same meal at home.  Duh!  You know why food in restaurants cost more than food you make at home?  Because employers have to pay higher medical insurance rates due to all the fat Americans getting diseases related to poor diet and lack of exercise.  A good place to start would be smaller, reasonable portion sizes served in national restaurant franchises.  The sad thing is, for most Americans, unless they push themselves away from the table stuffed, feel they've been cheated.  So portion sizes will remain unhealthily oversized and Americans will just keep getting fatter.

"I swear when I opened this thread I thought it would be a comment on how most American restaurants have serving sizes that are larger than they commonly are in other countries.  As a result, America is fat and in poor health.  Heavily fried and rich in calories, the food most Americans enjoy when they go out to eat leads to higher rates of heart disease and other related illnesses.  Instead the thread is a diatribe of how eating out is more expensive than preparing the same meal at home.  Duh!  You know why food in restaurants cost more than food you make at home?  Because employers have to pay higher medical insurance rates due to all the fat Americans getting diseases related to poor diet and lack of exercise.  A good place to start would be smaller, reasonable portion sizes served in national restaurant franchises.  The sad thing is, for most Americans, unless they push themselves away from the table stuffed, feel they've been cheated.  So portion sizes will remain unhealthily oversized and Americans will just keep getting fatter. "

PenguinDust is right, it is disgusting what we've turned food into.

$5 for a pizza is ridiculously expensive


But yeah......

"PenguinDust said:

"I swear when I opened this thread I thought it would be a comment on how most American restaurants have serving sizes that are larger than they commonly are in other countries.  As a result, America is fat and in poor health.  Heavily fried and rich in calories, the food most Americans enjoy when they go out to eat leads to higher rates of heart disease and other related illnesses.  Instead the thread is a diatribe of how eating out is more expensive than preparing the same meal at home.  Duh!  You know why food in restaurants cost more than food you make at home?  Because employers have to pay higher medical insurance rates due to all the fat Americans getting diseases related to poor diet and lack of exercise.  A good place to start would be smaller, reasonable portion sizes served in national restaurant franchises.  The sad thing is, for most Americans, unless they push themselves away from the table stuffed, feel they've been cheated.  So portion sizes will remain unhealthily oversized and Americans will just keep getting fatter. "

It's nice you know so much about 'most Americans' If you knew anything about 'most Americans' you'd know how much they hate condescending, conceited little pricks telling them how they should live their lives."