Prices going up

[Jewels7]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

I have had an egg McMuffin but they can not do too much to that. I remember when I was in grade school there was a McDonald's at the back of my school. When they first opened I would go there and get a cheeseburger and fries. It was walk up only then. No place to sit inside. There was a person cutting the fries right there and they were really good and fresh. The burgers and cheeseburgers were 25 and 35 cents. Now everything is mass produced and over prices and the last time I had a Big Mac which was a while ago it did not even taste like meat.

I remember the 35 cent cheeseburger. We'll not see that again. Heck, I remember the 10cent postcard stamp. 

I heard McDonald's makes their operating costs for the day during the typical breakfast period in the mornings. All else through the day is profit. 

They're also one of the foremost clear cutters of the rain forest. Clearing land for cheap grazing area for the cattle they use for their meat products. They raise cows but they still used a pink goop filler years ago? Makes no sense . 

[missmuffet]

20 minutes ago, Jewels7 said:

I remember the 35 cent cheeseburger. We'll not see that again. Heck, I remember the 10cent postcard stamp. 

I heard McDonald's makes their operating costs for the day during the typical breakfast period in the mornings. All else through the day is profit. 

They're also one of the foremost clear cutters of the rain forest. Clearing land for cheap grazing area for the cattle they use for their meat products. They raise cows but they still used a pink goop filler years ago? Makes no sense . 

They are very,very popular in the mornings. When I drive by the line is very long. We have another local burger place where I live called Burgerville. The hamburgers are a good quality and their products are local. They are about the same price as McDonald's and the food is way better in taste and quality.

[Jewels7]

Those price changes bring back memories.

I remember when people were picketing gas stations because gas jumped ten cents. Went from .47 per gallon to .57. You'd have thought it was a local response to the federal announcement America had turned to Communism. Boycotts of the local stations, picketers with signs. 
Then the gas crunch came after that. You could only get gas on certain days of the week depending on the last digit on your license plate. Made me feel sorry for people with vanity tags. 

[missmuffet]

9 minutes ago, Jewels7 said:

Those price changes bring back memories.

I remember when people were picketing gas stations because gas jumped ten cents. Went from .47 per gallon to .57. You'd have thought it was a local response to the federal announcement America had turned to Communism. Boycotts of the local stations, picketers with signs. 
Then the gas crunch came after that. You could only get gas on certain days of the week depending on the last digit on your license plate. Made me feel sorry for people with vanity tags. 

I can remember in Oregon where I lived they were rationing gas in the mid 70's. A guy I was dating had a pass because of his employment to get as much gas as he wanted. So he would slip some to me

[missmuffet]

28 minutes ago, Gary Lee said:

Last Friday my wife and I went to Sonic's drive in and got a chicken sandwich and a foot long chili dog and drinks. Nineteen bucks. Only had a fifty. As I sat in the car and waited for the food to show up, I held the fifty out and said,  Would you believe,  this is how much I paid for my first car, a chevy in the mid sixties"

Heard about this below on the radio last week:

Liang Zhao Zhang’s job is to clean up BART stations in downtown San Francisco and clean up he does: He swept in $162,000 in overtime pay last year, records show.

Call Zhang the super janitor, an extraordinarily high earner in a field where the beloved school custodian rarely brings home more than $50,000 a year. 

Zhang grossed $235,000 in 2015, four times more than his base pay as a janitor. Benefits brought his total cost of employment at the rail agency to more than $270,000. And records show this isn’t the first time he raked in six-figure compensation at BART. Zhang received a combined $682,000 in pay and benefits over the last three years.

What is it about San Francisco.........................................

Gary Lee

In Him Who is

Semper Fidelis

 

 

A few years ago we got a Sonics by where I lived. I wanted to try it. I did not think it was much better than McDonald's.

[missmuffet]

This is in the 60's

[missmuffet]

A cheap gas station right now where I live $2.45/gal is cheap gas. It is hard to get in and out of the station but it is worth it when you are on a budget like me.

[Jewels7]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

I can remember in Oregon where I lived they were rationing gas in the mid 70's. A guy I was dating had a pass because of his employment to get as much gas as he wanted. So he would slip some to me

Sometimes it's not what you know but who you know that gets you down the road.  Gas rationing. Cars use to block a lane of the road bumper to bumper waiting to get their turn at the pump on their tag number day. I wonder how many people ran out of gas before their turn at the pumps?

59 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

A few years ago we got a Sonics by where I lived. I wanted to try it. I did not think it was much better than McDonald's.

We had a sonic back in my hometown that lasted just two years. Then a Starbucks coffee bought the place. Which was right next to a mini-mart that served bunches of different coffees. 
You can have a real Kona cupa for less than $2.00 or a fancy coffee next door for over $8.00. 

 

56 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

A cheap gas station right now where I live $2.45/gal is cheap gas. It is hard to get in and out of the station but it is worth it when you are on a budget like me.

Is that regular unleaded? 

The cheapest we have here is $2.17 a gallon regular. 

 

Now near 50 years after the 70's gas rates that were less than .50 per gallon and when there was regular leaded gas, to now when its been nearly $5.00 a gallon at times. 

[missmuffet]

Just now, Jewels7 said:

Sometimes it's not what you know but who you know that gets you down the road.  Gas rationing. Cars use to block a lane of the road bumper to bumper waiting to get their turn at the pump on their tag number day. I wonder how many people ran out of gas before their turn at the pumps?

We had a sonic back in my hometown that lasted just two years. Then a Starbucks coffee bought the place. Which was right next to a mini-mart that served bunches of different coffees. 
You can have a real Kona cupa for less than $2.00 or a fancy coffee next door for over $8.00. 

 

Is that regular unleaded? 

The cheapest we have here is $2.17 a gallon regular. 

 

Now near 50 years after the 70's gas rates that were less than .50 per gallon and when there was regular leaded gas, to now when its been nearly $5.00 a gallon at times. 

Yes, unfortunately it is who you know which gets you what you want in this world. Not always fair but we do not live in a fair world.

The $2.45 is regular unleaded. I live in the State of Washington and we have the most expensive gas in America for some strange reason.

[Jewels7]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

This is in the 60's

Classic.  

Have you seen the movie about how McDonald's grew to be so big? It's called The Founder. Starring Michael Keaton. What's that line from the trailer? "Let's franchise this sucker." Brilliant.