u/Cool_Twist4494

I see so many posts of expensive groceries and people are still not purchasing everything they used to.

Did anyone else like me not change their shopping habits? Me and my wife could easily go through 300$ a week in just regular groceries. Mostly meat and vegetables some dairy. Nothing pre made or processed. The occasional cleaning product. We don't even eat breakfast and mostly just a snack for lunch. We eat leftovers for up to 3 days from most meals.

I don't know how families are out there with their fruit snacks and frozen treats and juice boxes are doing it. I would say me and my wife easily bring in 100k a year after taxes and only have a 1000$ mortgage until PMI drops then it's like 800$. We drive old cars we don't vacation. We barely buy clothing, we don't drink often

If I wasn't a handy electrician /plumber/ carpenter we would have been fucked if I had to pay someone to fix my a/c, fridge , dryer, sink, deck, car repairs.

It's just wild to think about how others are no doubt suffering unless they have insane amounts of help from family.

Giving your kid a worse life than you had growing up has got to be the most soul crushing feeling in the world and probably a pretty new feeling in the civilized world right?

Fellow millennials/ gen x , why was cheese sauce so much better when we were growing up?

When I was a kid Cheese fries were the food of the gods that you could only get so often. It had the best gooey, fry-coating cheese that actually tasted like cheddar. Now everyone has the same nasty overly tangy bullshit that like tastes nothing but putrid yellow lubrication.

I know it's not my pallet changing because I've gotten the good kind sporadically over the past 20 years maybe only 5 times.I feel like Nathan's cheese fries are still good but I haven't had them in over a decade.

I thought they were literally just procuring bags/cans of it so what's with it? Did they not use sodium citrate when we were growing up? Is this syscos fault somehow?

We don't need to look better than our enemies. We don't need to have people happy enough to reproduce. We don't need to worry about revolting because our police have military grade weaponry and qualified immunity.

Am I missing something here? I feel like people are waiting around for things to get better when I'm having a hard time finding a reason for them to get better.

All I can think of is things should get better because that would be nice.

My groceries cost 300$ a week and I have nothing to eat unless I cook it myself.

You know the cult I'm talking about. It's crazy to see how 30% of Americans usually hold the absolute worst takes consistently. Almost like someone is telling them what to think.

Any other studies come to mind when you can tell who the people answering are ?

Was this not how everyone just googled already? Even before reddit you would find your answer in like a body building or video game forum. Were people getting too stupid to do that? Do people think the AI is actually answering them? How is this worth this much money? Were regular Google searches in need of huge centers?