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
Yeah, support a local sandwich shop.
Probably won't be much cheaper but it'll be ten times the quality.
My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.
If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitors at the low end. And Subway, period.
You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.
They charge that much because the market will bear it. 🤷🏻♂️ That's on us consumers.
pikes place
Speaking of mildly infuriating 😆
Not entirely true, the stores that unionized have better tasting coffee in comparison to regular sb
Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it's the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.
At least post some original content!
No. Steal the shit out of Reddirt. Idgaf.
I'm just disappointed they didn't do the proper conversion from USD to GBP. Should only be about £6.50!
And in the UK is actually costs £5.10.
This is just a lie, and people are (ironically) eating it up!
Exactly. A repost is a repost but this guy just Good Will Hunting and "pawned it off as his own".
People here arent usually on reddit. So its nice to see things crossposted here
No, you could not be more wrong. We did not leave reddit just for the admins, we also hoped to leave low effort posts and outright lies behind, there's no karma here so what's even the point of OP?
Who cares? Aren't most memes posted on here coming from other places? Nothing wrong with showcasing content from across the Internet.
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.
Starbucks is a union busting piece of shit organization, regardless of their piece of shit food, fuck Starbucks.
I've clearly eaten too many lunches from food vendors (including SB) inside convention centers because I expected see maybe 2 slices of ham and 1 of cheese for $8 (in 2023 money). And maybe a lettuce leaf that is probably a recycled hot coffee sleeve dyed green.
I mean you could see what was on it before you bought it, that's on you dog. All you did was prove people will pay that much for a shit sandwich.
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And they served it to you on a Dixie paper plate? I call bullshit but idk why I'm even posting here because you just reposted this in pounds instead of dollars LOL
Wow. The fyre festival sandwich at least came with a salad.
Only if you traded it for a blanket
Dont buy food in a shitty ciffee shop.. lol
this is the kind of sandwich i make while hungover, take one bite, and then go "oh god i forgot the mayo"
Ew, mayonnaise?
Mayo is so delicious
Reminds me of Weird Al Yankovich's masterpiece "White and Nerdy".
Just slap a label on it like with artisan bread and any hipster out there will grab it up yum.....
I went to Niagara falls the other day and they were selling $10 pizza slices, my wife got one. I went to the grocery store across the street, bought a large roll from the fresh baked ones. Got cheese ends and ham ends at the deli aisle, and grabbed salad cup. It cost me about $8 but I got a much better, massive sandwich compared to what my wife ate.
We were at Niagara Falls earlier this year and we did the same thing. Food prices there are insane.
Tourist hot spots are insane. I was having a cup of coffee in a small cafe at St. Mark's Square in Venice and it was 6.50€ for the coffee and a 12€ cover charge. Rip-off.
$10 for a slice of pizza? And you paid it? What in the world? No wonder food prices keep going up.
No they keep going up cause we have shitty governments who side with corporations and don't give a shit about us
This is not a sandwich.
Maybe they should call it "Ceci n'est pas une sandwich" and charge £12 instead.
The Treachery of Starbucks
It's my wife! millions of boomers laughing
People giving money to Starbucks only tells them they can continue to charge what they want. I've never been a customer because coffee gives me the shits, but I'm constantly amazed to hear what people are willing to pay for a single beverage. Most Starbucks drinkers pay what I would pay for an entire meal drink included for their one drink.
FWIW most of those Starbucks drinks have more calories than your entire meal. So from a purely energetics standpoint they're winning.
You don't buy Starbucks food for the value. You do it cause there's one on the way to work/school.
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.
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."
Now I have to re-read snow crash. Such a great book.
All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units. With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain't what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream. In twenty years, ten million white people will converge on the north pole and park their bagos there. The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous. It will melt a hole through the polar icecap, and all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it.
Snow Crash is one of the greatest books ever written.
It's a little game I play whenever I am abroad to go check out a chain place to see how different it is. Very anecdotal
7-11 is all over the place. Prices and what they have will vary by country.
Starbucks is consistent on high end drink items both in price and what they make.
Dunkin is pretty much the same everywhere except you can't seem to get drip coffee in some countries.
MacDonalds is the same with maybe one local item. Kinda cool getting a beer in Germany with some French fries.
It is consistent, has bathrooms, and they don't bother you if you sit there for a while. I have been avoiding them but you asked and I answered.
That's $9.77 in Freedom Dollars.
This is making the $7 footlongs at Walmart seem like a super great value.
If you lived in LA, this would be a £12 sandwich. the sandwich economy here is out of control.
Didn't know LA used Pounds instead of USD
It's that out of control
Yeh I was thinking to myself "they're probably $13 here in Vancouver ". If you think LA is bad, Tacos are $6 each here now and burritos are $20-25.
8£ is roughly 13$ Canadian. So yeah.
The parts I like are the attention to detail on the size of the bread being perfectly rectangular, the cheese slices being perfectly equally sized, and the consistently overlapping slices of ham that span the exact length of the bread. Then that all combines to form a shitty looking sandwich. Perfectly optimized sandwich designed by accountants.
They're supposed to toast it at least
The fuckers didn't even put the pieces of bread together.
Weigh it again!
Jk
That's twice as much cheese & ham as the ones in the U. S., which cost about the same.
"Have a day." - Starbucks
Now that's something to give you a big ol' case of the fuck yous.
"Yes, go fuck yourself in your fucking face."
-Starbucks
Wait, is this real? No way.... I make better sandwiches in the 2 minutes time that I'm late for work.
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.
So, the pictured is still a legitimate Starbucks sandwich?
Bought a cold sandwich at a quick-service place in England.
There's your problem. This one has a certain appeal, though. I'd pay eight pounds just to be spared the usual pile of cucumber slices, old egg, and obscene quantity of mayonnaise.
There is no such thing as an "obscene quantity of mayonnaise".
That opinion is apparently spicier than your condiment of choice.
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I too am impressed they managed to not include tomatoe, avocado, bacon, lettuce, or a sauce of any sort, while simultaneously not bothering to interlace the cheese between the meat for a more interesting texture profile.
It looks like prison food.
I'm still firmly of the belief that if you're going to be having a cold sandwich for lunch than it should've been in your backpack and you should expect nothing but disappointment if you have somebody else make it.
Then.
That's genuinely shocking.
It's not shocking for me. They don't make real coffee, how would they know how to make food?
I wouldn't know : I never support them.
They don’t make real coffee
The coffee at Starbucks is real, I've seen it in person
The sandwich itself ain't that bad. I would like some sauce/oil/whatever wet but apart from that looks ok. The issue is the price...
That's like $13 up here in Canada. But I'd assume they have the same sandwiches here. But wow, that's outrageous.
Crime!
I paid 6$ CAD for brie and ham with pepper jelly from the grocery store
I can make that for less than a dollar
Don't they make the sandwiches to your specification in the UK?
Edit: I'm stupid, I read that as Subway.
A whole bread, a block of cheese and a ham is not even 8 bucks. Just make a sandwich at home, it takes like a minute.
Enough meat, one slice too little of cheese. But why is there no butter nor salad on it?
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.
The last time I bought a latte at a coffee shop it cost about as much as a POUND of coffee beans from Costco.
Stop. The. Insanity.
A baguette with just that is a war crime
Ham and cheese plain or buttered on a baguette is a French staple
Looks more like a type of ciabatta.
Still not a high enough price for animal abuse.
Are the animals humans? And is the abuse the act of eating that sad sandwich? If so, I agree, that is animal abuse.
You're a union hating boot licking nazi cop if you support starbucks
As a supertaster and inveterate picky eater, that actually looks pretty good. Could use some mayo and/or mustard though.
As a normal customer with the lowest standard, that actually looks pretty disgusting. Could eat a shoe with some mayo.
Disgusting? It's a few slices of ham and cheese. It's basic, but you find ham and cheese to be disgusting?
A little mayo, sure. But not for 8 bucks.
Too much ham, no mayo or dressing, and nothing green like lettuce.
Youre nuts.
