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Michael considered fate at 14:43   |   Permalink   |   Post a Comment

Ever notice you can't go to a sit down restuarant anymore and order a garden salad for less then around $5? And that is here in Maine. I can only imagine the exorbitant prices in a more urban area. It's obnoxious.

Really!

I've looked. I've done my research. In most of the joints now you're lucky if you can even find a normal green salad on the menu. It's usually squished, in tiny tiny print, inbetween the Ceasar Chicken salads and the Mexican Enchilada Super Extra Bean salads and the Philly Cheesesteak salads. There is almost no such thing as a normal salad anymore.

I am a big salad fan because sometimes you want to go out with friends cause they are going out to eat and you want to be social but you just ate or you aren't hungry so you go - thinking i'll just have a salad - and the fucking salads are as expensive as a hamburger and fries with Coke - so you thinkwell, if I'm paying that much.. might as well have a burger and fries - and then america over eats and no one buys the salad and we all get FAT and OBESE - except anorexic bitches who only eat three forkfuls anyway.

And then.. before you know it you've spent almost $10 on food/tax/tip and you weren't even hungry! It's the restuarants way of saying "Fuck you, give us all your money". This fortifies my theory that it is impossible to come out of a normal restuarant without spending less than $10 (approximately). Try .. I dare you. You will lose.

So why do you care, Mike? You make money.

Just cause I make money doesn't legitimize an exorbitant price for LETTUCE. Where's the demand? Where's the kink in the suppxly chain? Peter Rabbit can only do so much damage!

And people wonder why American's eat at the fast food joints... When every restuarant you find is raising it's prices there is McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's coming out with 99 cent menus. **99** cents. How can someone argue a $6 dollar salad over a 99 cent box of fries?

Wendy's, in fact, has it's own garden salad. They have a "mini" version at 99 cents and it's carefully rationed out: 2 cherry tomatos, two rings of onion, a few slices of cucumber, and a predefined amount of lettuce. Now, it isn't the largest salad in the world but at 99 cents.. Minus the perils of mass-produced produce in a fast food setting you can't really beat it with a stick.

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