• Globulart@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d just like to point out that OP is either lying or has been scammed.

    Starbucks have consistent pricing and the most expensive sandwich in the UK is £5.10, technically 5.25 for a plant based breakfast item, see here for full menu prices.

    But people like getting angry at cost of living issues right now (understandably) so this will get hundreds of upvotes despite being a lie.

    • viralJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lying. They reposted from a Reddit post that shows an eight dollar Starbucks sandwich.

    • sharpiemarker@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Because in Starbucks, you get to look at the sandwich before you buy it… oh wait that’s not right.

        • sharpiemarker@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          You do know how prepackaged food works right? You buy it, they take it out of the package and heat it up or serve it to you… it’s behind the counter. You don’t get to pick one out and ask for it. Dumbass…

    • Globulart@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      No, it’s not.

      This is a £5.10 item in the UK, the pic is taken from a reddit post complaining about spending 8 dollars in the US. Which is still a lot but not £8.

  • Littleborat@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I could make that for 80c but I won’t because it looks gross.

    Sandwiches made from garbage out of the supermarket dumpster look a lot better than this.

  • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s your own damn fault for trying to get food at fucking Starbucks, the coffee isn’t even good unless you’re at pikes place

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been to a Starbucks once in my life and that was in August of 2012. I have never been back since I never plan to go back. I absolutely do not understand the appeal.

    • Dave.@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It brings that consistent Seattle blandness everywhere it goes.

      Neal Stephenson said it best in Snow Crash :

      "In olden times, you’d wander down to Mom’s Café for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home. It worked just fine if you never left your hometown. But if you went to the next town over, everyone would look up and stare at you when you came in the door, and the Blue Plate Special would be something you didn’t recognize. If you did enough traveling, you’d never feel at home anywhere.

      But when a businessman from New Jersey goes to Dubuque, he knows he can walk into a McDonald’s and no one will stare at him. He can order without having to look at the menu, and the food will always taste the same. McDonald’s is Home, condensed into a three-ringed binder and xeroxed. “No surprises” is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.

      The people of America, who live in the world’s most surprising and terrible country, take comfort in that motto."