Does nobody here find it a bit insane that 11 dollars is seen as an acceptable price for a sandwich these days?
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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Pretty sure a potato is going to cost $11 soon at this rate
We're going to have to put the Arrested Development banana meme out to pasture soon.
We were supposed to get another ~100 years out of that meme. Thanks, Trump.
I didn't know there was an xkcd for this. Nice! Thanks for sharing.
There is an xkcd for everything!
There really is holy shit, I wasn't fully convinced until this
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I expected to pay $5 for a good sandwich in 1995 and with inflation $11 sounds about right.
Double checked and yup: https://www.calculateme.com/inflation/5.00-dollars/from-1995/to-now
The main problem is that since wages haven't kept up the proportional value to the paycheck doesn't follow inflation which is why it isn't actually as simple as just looking at inflation.
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Me. I think it's outrageous 😳
Dude I'm always so stunned by comments like this. I'm in aus and a zoomer, even after converting to USD decent sandwiches have cost more than this my entire life
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I mean, if you're going out to sit down restaurant and getting a good sandwich, I don't think that's unacceptable at all. That said, my local sub shop has amazing subs for $6-8
Going to a sit down restaurant for a sandwich is very suspicious behavior. Like going to a bar and ordering a glass of milk.
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Yes, but they probably don’t mean a sandwich using the standard size of bread slices that you find in a store. Something like Jimmy John’s Favorites subs or my local gyro place (technically not a sandwich but similar) are around that price and contain a lot more volume of food than a basic sandwich. Subway’s footlongs are about that size/volume but their quality is not worth $11 by any means. I think hamburgers also would be an exception to that price-quality-volume metric for sandwiches.
If I'm going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.
nah that's a reasonable price for a quality sandwich in Canada
now if you convert that $11 USD to CAD, then no, that's high
This must be old; it’s $15 everywhere near me now.
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$11 dollars
Eleven dollars dollars?
I withdrew $11 dollars from the ATM machine using my PIN number to buy some DC comics which I converted to a PDF format to view on my LCD display e-reader.
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This is definitely big city language. 11$ is an expensive sandwich.
$²11
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There’s a really popular sandwich shop in my hometown. It regularly has a line out the door. I just checked their prices and it’s 10.75 for most options so I’d say this is spot on.
Reminder that if you make minimum wage in the US that sandwich cost a quarter of your daily income.
£8.36 for a sandwich? Fuck off.
This is probably perfectly true if you live near Mike ginn and eat at the same shops he does. I paid $13.50 for a chicken sandwich today and it was pretty crap.
Are you suggesting that it was not foolish to pay $13.50 for that sandwich?
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The best sandwich costs $1.50 but it exists in Vietnam so you need to factor in travel costs. The longer you stay, the less it costs.
The fact that this number has crept up without meaningful wage increases is what I'm pissed about.
What kind of a sandwich are we talking about? A monsteous long ass sandwich that would feed me for a week, or something to eat at lunch in its entirety to hold me over until dinner?
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2 - 8€ range contains bangers
2-4€ at the butcher's
5-8€ at the bakery
Different style, all delicious
11 dollars for a sandwich? what are you putting in it? a ten dollar bill?
I can spend less than $11 and make a giant hoagie at home that's the ssme or better quality than the shop selling me a 6 inch sub for $11.
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Big assumption I'm going to regularly pay someone else to put fillings inside of bread for me.
If I'm paying for food out, it's gonna be something I can't or really don't want to make myself. Not a fucking sandwich.
I get whatcha saying, but there was this place I used to go that would make this awesome Torta Oaxaqueña (various Mexican food in a hamburger-like bun) that I don't think I coulda ever made myself.
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This is around right. It's about $11 for a generous half sub at the beat sandwich shop I know, $20ish for the full sub, but it varies a bit depending on what's in the sandwich.
Jersey Mike's Big Kahuna Cheese Steak is $13.49 so this is demonstrably false
Well, first of all, it’s a Philly cheesesteak sandwich with a Hawaiian name and it doesn’t even have pineapples or spam on it. I’d say that definitely counts as foolish.
Yoooo, does anyone make a spam pineapple cheesesteak? Asking for a friend that is also me that would destroy that.
You could be the pineapple spam cheese steak slinger
I'm fixin' to here in a minute. Spam musubi is one of my very guilty pleasures.
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Jersey Mike’s seems to be the pinnacle of sandwichsmithing these days.
Firehouse is also decent.
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And if you do them yourself, you can get a perfect sandwich for four dollars or less easily.
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I will not pay 11 dollars for a sandwich ever. I have bread, i have meat and cheese... i'll be fine
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Counterpoint: good bahn mi in SF is around 6 dollars
Best sandwiches are home made and cost a few dollars
*in America.
Divide by 4-5 for asia.
I like those simple Tesco (UK grocery store) ham sandwiches. They're nice. Fluffy bread, ham nice and fresh. They're £1.50. I have to be fair! They do what it says on the box! Haha
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