Huge delicious bowl of Ramen in Tokyo was like $6 on my last trip…. yeah you are going to be in for some culture shock.
Coming back to the US from overseas is always super depressing imho.
No public transportation!
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what are $2.99 tuesdays at now?
One of my misses on my Japan trip is that I failed to get a great bowl of ramen. Tried twice, and they were solid, but not mind blowing compared to what I get at the spots near where I live. Maybe I just had a bit of runbad. However, prices were great. Less than 1/2 of what I’d pay here for only a slightly smaller quantity.
The irony is that I tend to pay US prices for ramen in Japan, since the ramen I eat is usually vegetarian & gluten free, both of which are charged a premium here.
It always makes me laugh when idiots who never get past Econ 101 think they know how humans behave.
I remember reading about a private school that tried to price discriminate and offer discounts to boost enrollments… Where of course the entire parent population got outraged
Seems reasonable, I can’t imagine too many people want that. Seems like a lot of work for a very small number of customers.
US prices may be even crazier than you realize. As it turns out, wife and I recently went to a ramen place for lunch.
Here was our exact order
1 Vegan Ramen (Wife’s; she said she just wanted to try it. She has never ordered it before and will probably never order it again). Added extra spinach.
1 Spicy Chicken Ramen with extra chicken chashu and chicken soboro.
1 order of Brussel Sprout Tempura
2 diet cokes
Guess the total after tax and tip (I left a smidge over 20%).
$80
I just added tip and signed the CC bill reflexively and after about 2 sec, I said to myself “Wait, did I just pay $80 for this”, and I looked back to discover that I did indeed spend $80.
I’ve heard rumors of $20 bowls of ramen from San Diego friends, so without peeking at your answer, I’m going to guess around $60?
Another factor is that most of those who do want this type of ramen are tourists, and hence, the unspoken tourist surcharge.
That would be my idea of pretty standard US ramen prices.
My first real ramen was drunk at 4am in Tokyo. It was one of those places where you buy a ticket from a vending machine, then hand it to the cook. The smell of the meat coming off the grill was insane.
I lived in SF at the time and couldn’t figure out how this wasn’t drunk coming out of bars food. Ramen is pretty popular in LA now, but more for dinner than 2am bar food.
https://twitter.com/dschw89/status/1762385444426104874?t=8n0XzPH-IRRkjdHa2yQQ3A&s=19
Tl;Dr: Major TERF figure caught reading Harry Potter fanfic porn on a train.
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Upper middle class men bitching about the price of food for their ramens when poor people are selecting limited produce from dollar general is great.
I’ll take it with a side of telling poor people they are idiots for not realizing how good they really have it.
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Yeah I went to subway for first time in years. Was shocked at the prices.
After having meat pies and sausage rolls in Australia a while back I couldn’t figure out how the US missed out on that, it seems like an even better after bar food than a giant bowl of soup.
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Love the idea that TV prices have plummeted but fast food prices have (finally) gone up. That rumbling sound you hear is the quivering of a hundred million monkey paws.
Yeah fast food ONLY makes sense now woth coupons. For instance, Wendy’s is running Daves singles for $1 and Daves doubles for $2 once a week during March madness.
If I was still eating fast food, that would be the only time Id ever go to Wendys
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