Remembering when you could eat for cheap

I moved from small town New Zealand to study at OSU in 1992. I didn’t have access to fast food in NZ so I clearly remember the $99 whopper and $5 all you can eat KFC.
 
Funny how we remember the cost but forget the money.

When I was in high school, gas was 32 cents a gallon. I was making $1.60 /hour. So it took me 12 minutes to earn a gallon of gas.

You can’t find anyone that will work for $16.00/hour these days and gas is now $3.20/gallon.

The simple math would say that it is relative in cost/gallon of gas, but the truth is, a minimum wage earner is making more than $16.00/hour, so it is actually cheaper today than it was at $.32/gallon…
 
Funny how we remember the cost but forget the money.

When I was in high school, gas was 32 cents a gallon. I was making $1.60 /hour. So it took me 12 minutes to earn a gallon of gas.

You can’t find anyone that will work for $16.00/hour these days and gas is now $3.20/gallon.

The simple math would say that it is relative in cost/gallon of gas, but the truth is, a minimum wage earner is making more than $16.00/hour, so it is actually cheaper today than it was at $.32/gallon…
That's true, but that's for one item.
 
$2.99 all you can eat at Captain D's (Tuesday nites in college, obscene amounts of fish and fries consumed). Burger and small drink at McD's 37cents (including tax). 11 cent gasoline (town was famous for gas wars).

I have started looking at the cheaper meals at the drive thrus, and just wonder what they are feeding us if they can do it at that price (well, used to be cheap when a sausage biscuit was a buck).
 
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