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What are some of your worst purchasing regrets? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 day ago by venotic@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine was yesterday, I bought a papa john's pizza of medium size and some garlic knots. I was feeling like shit because my job and store is very good at that, so I stress ate. I contemplated in the car which would've been more valuable for my buck to dine with. I picked pizza.

$20 (more like $27 but I took away the price of the knots) was what it cost for a meats-based medium sized pizza from there. The problem I had with the pizza was that it didn't look like a medium, it looked like the smaller-end of a medium. Secondly, the person cutting the slices did a shit job, because I had two smaller slices than the rest. And I felt there wasn't enough meats spread evenly.

I honestly should've picked a chinese buffet because at least I would have variety and I could eat as much as I wanted. Plus saving a few dollars.

This is the first and last time I'm ordering something out of my comfort budget.

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[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Airport Sandwich €12 and it tastes like gas station sandwich.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From the hitchkikers guide:

It is by eating sandwiches in pubs on Saturday lunchtimes that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. They’re not altogether clear what those sins are, and don’t want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever sins they are are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.
If there is anything worse than the sandwiches, it is the sausages which sit next to them. Joyless tubes, full of gristle, floating in a sea of something hot and sad, stuck with a plastic pin in the shape of a chef’s hat: a memorial, one feels, for some chef who hated the world, and died, forgotten and alone, among his cats on a back stair in Stepney. The sausages are for the ones who know what their sins are and wish to atone for something specific.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Airport prices are on a whole other level

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I thought 18€ for 2 ham & cheese croissants & coffee in the Netherlands was excessive until I paid for (my son and my lunch) 80$ for 2 burritos & 2 beers at SeaTac....fucking insanity.

They have sucked out all the joy of the beer at whatever time your bodyclock says.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's just extortion. They know you can't go anywhere so they set those ridiculous prices and get away with it