No. This is not about the orgy at the yoga convention. I want to know how I can give a $5 bill to somebody, get change, and leave with five pounds of food? The days of going to McDonald’s and getting change from you dollar are LONG gone. Why is it I can leave my little family run Chinese restaurant with a bag heavy enough to know you bought something. It’s not a bag full of Styrofoam either. I do get a quart of egg-drop soup in a Tupperware bowl, but none of their containers are half full of air. The shrimp fried rice carton is packed to bulging and the shrimp are not hiding. The bag has ALL the accouterments WITHOUT begging and it ends up being a couple full meals.

We all are aware of the many places we are constantly being strangled by the profiteers that have us over a barrel (pun intended!). Everybody has a right to make a profit and should, but how can some be doing very well with some hard work and reasonable prices while others (like ink jet suppliers) stick it too you so deeply and for ever, for so very little?

What other RARE product or service jumps out at you as not being rape?

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I've wondered the same thing PF. My wife and I for $ 5 something can by a Chinese lunch and come home and split it with plenty of food for both. Why do I ever eat anything else? Why do I ever go to the grocery store?

There's a little place in town here (local place) that serves two eggs any style, two pieces of toast; hash browns or American fries; and either two sausage patties or three of either the sausage links or bacon for $ 2.99. Probably the best breakfast deal around here. (And it's all good, too!)

I love eating breakfast out and rarely do so.

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I was just making a similar much less wordy observation about Chinese food last week. It amazes me the quantity you can get for so little money. Oddly enough a bowl of rabbit food (salad) while healthier is probably twice as much.

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One reason Chinese food is so cheap is one of the main ingredients is rice which is dirt cheap. Now shrimp is more expensive but what they use is in the rang of 40-50 count (40 to 50 shrimp per pound) or pop corn shrimp both of which is also a lot cheaper. As for the soup most soups are about 75 to 90% water unless you get into the cream or cheese soups. As for breakfast it's cheaper once again because what you get is cheaper.

One of the great myths is the restaurants get all their food a lot cheaper then what you spend in the store when it truth other then a few things this is true(rice being one of the exceptions). Most items they are maybe pay 5 to 10 cents less per pound then what you do in the store.

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