Feels like more and more conservatives are feeling comfortable saying the quiet part out loud.

Except for the fact that she never said any of that, it was Rousseau

It’s almost like that’s what the first line of the title is implying as well.

Bleeding it dry? There was a thread in Mastodon recently proving there’s a massive supermarket cartel driving prices in Austria higher than in surrounding countries and the government took the side of the supermarkets.

It's also nowhere near that cheap.

McD is hella expensive, especially if you have to live of of it.

A 8-10€ basic menu is good to fill in a single meal, but while having a ton of calories, doesn't satiate enough to count even as a full meal (which is on purpose so you order more). At my local prices, you're looking at 13-15€ minimum, to have a satiating meal out of McDonnalds.

The vision of his party is to keep everything the same, they’re conservatives

Yeah I don’t know about Austria but here McDonald’s ain’t that cheap.

Exactly. Not only is it not cheap on a regular basis, but it isn't even that much food from my experience at the cheaper end of McDonalds.

You'd be far better off cooking your own food if you have the time, but the problem is a lot of these people are so busy working their arses off to atay afloat that they don't have that time.

The 1,40 burgers are barely enough to satiate a child, even with fries.

A menu that can fill an adult, that's 13-14€ easily. And that's still just one meal.

The quality 3 meals a day I consume and make at home average 5€ per portion. resulting in 450€ food budget per person per month, I generally go for white label products if the quality is good enough.

That's 900€ a month for 2 people for food alone (this was 300ish before COVID).
850-1000€ for entry level 1 bedroom rent here, brings us to 1750-1900€ a month for a roof and food, another 75-100 for electricity (and then you have to be very usage conscious) brings us to 1825-2000€ a month, add required insurance (fire/health/accidents) for another 50-100€ brings us to 1875-2100€ a month.

Now, a phone and internet sub are pretty much a requirement these days, so say the cost of a cheap phone, internet and gsm abbo combine to be another 50€ a month per person.

So we're at 1975-2200€ a month to cover the very basic living expenses for a 2 person household.

You'd need to have one person with a decent wage or two people working minimum wage to barely get by.

Any surprise or extra cost and you're in the red.

Eating McDonnalds to cover breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, you'd need over 2000€ for food alone.

Yeah, even though fast food is often looked down upon, it’s actually a luxury food. I enjoy fast food about 3 times per week and it costs almost as much as all other groceries summed up. If i had to cut costs, this would be the first thing i’d cut. I would eat rice, legumes and tomato sauce instead (maybe with toppings like canned fish or tofu) would easily save >50€ per week. You can buy ceap high quality rice in huge sacks (often with zippers on top) to save even more.

McDonald’s is not cheap food, it’s fast food. I don’t expect this cunt to know the difference.

That’s not even enough to satiate you. For that you need to buy a menu which is about 10€ here in Germany. That’s not cheap at all.

As of July 2023, the price of a Big Mac (just the sandwitch) in the US is $5.58 (€5.27). statista.com/…/big-mac-in@dex-global-prices-for-a…

If I could afford almost 4 quid per meal I’d be laughing! Think of all the nice food I could eat!

We grow all of our vegetables for most of the year. Potatoes, carrots, leeks, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, beetroot, lots of berries for jams, etc etc. I don’t know how we’d manage without that.

We live in the outskirts of a major city in England, not a stereotypically poor blackwater somewhere. This is how bad things are these days.

What can a banana cost?

3,50€ is really cheap in my country. But our grocery and restaurants prices are among the worse ones

According to Google that’s about $5 Canadian. The avegage burger combo at McDonald’s in my area is about $12. $15 if you upsize.

Not that eating healthier is much cheaper.

To be fair corruption and keeping people in cellars is about ¾ of our GDP.

I personally couldnt care less if he was leading the party at the last elections or not. Nehammer is prime ÖVP, his politics is a perfect example of what you get when you vote for this party.

I think most people can afford to eat at McDonald’s.

His opinion used to be much more widespread 10 or 15 years ago. Now poor people can’t even eat fast food without being judged for wasting money.

He’s not just a capitalist pig, he’s an out of touch capitalist pig.

TBF, their prices are localized. Say, in Russia it was always not something you can do every day. They depend on many things, supply chain, general income levels, some central strategy. It’s a franchise, as everybody knows I’m sure. You can open a McDonalds in a place lacking one if they agree.

And the reason it’s comparatively expensive now somewhere as compared to 15 years ago is that they apparently think that being more expensive and smaller in volume is better for their operation than being less expensive and bigger in volume. Or something like that.

Resting Bougface

The sentiment remains disgusting no matter how factually accurate it is.

“I only have a few dollars to feed my children”

"Oh fuck have you tried giving it to billionaires?“

Even disregarding this being a horrible choice for your child’s nutrition that’s a pretty horrible deal, you could get much more food by being cheap brands in the supermarket.

This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally EU politicians have the sense to refrain from such statements even if probably most of them believe the same.