• kalpol@sh.itjust.works
          7·
          6 months ago

          It is pretty shocking how much food five lbs each of beans and rice make. Cost, about $5. Super boring but hey

        • hissing meerkat@sh.itjust.works
          7·
          6 months ago

          I’ve eaten on about that before, but decades ago when food was cheaper. Nothing is satisfying, you are hungry all the time, constantly craving some nutrition you no longer even know how to acquire or what it is, but it’s absent from everything you eat.

          Peanut butter and bread was too expensive. Peanut butter was a treat. Bread from bakery surplus cost two to three times as much as rice. For your example, at $400 a year you’re looking at $8 a week. If a jar of peanut butter is $3 and has 4800 kCal in it and bread is $1 a loaf and has 24 60kCal slices in it, then a jar of peanut butter and 5 loaves of bread a week only gets you 12000 kCal a week, which isn’t enough for a moderately active adult. And you’re going to be missing out on all sorts of nutrition.

          At the time the best things to buy were eggs, beans, rice, and processed dry foods. Then you buy things that make eating them bearable and are also cheap in combination: whole or powdered milk to eat cereals, raw sugar, fat to cook into things, very cheap meats, cheese when it was cheap, and processed frozen foods that are similar in price to their constituents, which at the time were common because they are a way of storing food from a production season to sell in an off season. Then you get a few things to try to stave off cravings, like some long-term storage plastic-packed cuts of meat, or canned vegetables, or concentrated frozen fruit. At a low budget a can of food represents everything you get to eat for a day, or more. Fresh vegetables or fruit were completely unobtainable unless there’s a local surplus.

          Now the structure of food markets is different and everything is priced based only on demand and not on supply, so frozen processed foods that were available then due to the product being made to take surplus or trimmings and then store them are now priced based on demand for the product. The only things that have stayed similar are the prices for eggs (usually), the cheapest meats (sometimes), staples (usually), and canned foods which are priced based on the cost of transportation and are still routinely too high for such a low budget.

      • gerryflap@feddit.nl
        1·
        6 months ago

        Hmmm yeah I think I had a bit of a math failure haha. A month is a bit more reasonable unless I wanna eat the bare minimum

  • techingtenor@lemm.ee
    25·
    6 months ago

    Lol if you zoom in there is clearly something weird going on with the numbers. I would believe 0s were added to the prices. Even without the 0 at the end the prices would still be absurd but this is way too expensive to be believable. If it is real just burn the whole place down

    • techingtenor@lemm.ee
      52·
      6 months ago

      Alright I’m gonna be the dude who replies to myself but I did some research and these prices are probably real. What’s crazy is they appear to be significantly lower than last years prices. Another important thing is that the formal menus mention the dishes being sized to serve 4 people. That makes it slightly more okay but also still ridiculous. This has to be inside the paddock or VIP areas though as I dont think they would even offer caviar to the peasants in the general admission.

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        It’s the hard rock vip area, it is indeed not the peasantry. The people in this area don’t even ball at these prices because they don’t care about price tags, whatever it is they’ve got it.

    • efstajas@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      I zoomed in and stared at the numbers for quite a while… What’s weird about them? The only thing I can see are compression artifacts around them, but that’d be totally expected

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      Caviar isn’t even that expensive. Unless you’re looking for a very specific brand and type.

      I mean, it’s still expensive compared to most foods by weight, but buying a tin isn’t absurd if you’re doing it once in a while for a special occasion.

      Tsar Nicoulai caviar (served at Quince, a 3 Michelin star restaurant in San Francisco) sells 1oz of their classic caviar for $60 for comparison. A single serving is usually 0.5oz, so that would serve 2. Of course they have more expensive options, but since the menu doesn’t specify it probably isn’t something super special. There are cheaper brands as well of course, I specifically chose this brand to look up aince I know it is served at a 3 star restaurant, and they would of course be using a high quality product.

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Oh definitely. I just wanted to point out that even the “expensive” brands used by places like Michelin rated restaurants aren’t even that expensive. A lot of people only ever see these very artificially inflated values at events, or super exclusive types of caviar, and think that’s just how expensive all of it is.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
      43·
      6 months ago

      Looks like it was in an “exclusive” area of an F1 race. Best I can tell, it’s just a vehicle to keep the unwashed masses away from the privileged and their playground.

    • oo1@kbin.social
      12·
      6 months ago

      it says crypto, its probably in bit-dollars.

      surey this is photoshop though.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        6 months ago

        There are other photos and handheld menus. It isnt photoshop. Same story ran last year for the same event. It is just rich people pricing for a rich people event.