Note I did not buy any food for myself.
To head off questions:
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No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.
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She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.
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We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.
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No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.
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We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.
I’m not a huge pizza person but paid $30 for a 9 inch from a pizzeria in Chicago a couple of months ago. It was tasty so I didn’t mind but it did seem quite a bit higher than the last time I had pizza.
I’d never give Domino’s that much for a pizza though, from what I recall their offerings are pretty subpar.
The local pizza place, a restaurant, has pizza Wednesdays. Every 11" pizza for 7 Euro and you have to pick it up, so you don’t have to tip anyone. That’s the only time I order pizza.
Inches and Euro? UK?
No, I just felt there were more Americans in this thread and I didn’t want to upset them, so I converted 28cm into 11 inches. But I didn’t feel that converting the price would make sense, because of cost of living, so I left it in Euro.
Ah. Makes sense. Didn’t want to scare them with units of liberté.
I think the UK still uses pounds for money. Pizza is one of those weird things that is frequently measured in inches even in otherwise metric nations.
Huh. In former land of victorious socialism(or at least in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) common pizza sizes are 25/26, 30 and 40 centimeters.
i always start ordering something for delivery and then get to the checkout screen and see the price and am like LOL NOPE CANNED BEANS AGAIN
I sure don’t blame you! If I could cook, she would be getting a cooked meal.
I wish I had your self control, cravings ruin me. But I am trying to be better lol.
I felt bad reading this. Fast food is way too expensive here in 2024. And then you had to write an essay justifying yourself because of all the pedantic jerks who love to pounce on the smallest of things.
The thing about inflation is the food is not expensive, its the value of money that’s gone down. Its salaries that are way too low to afford the new prices. The food isn’t too expensive - employees are being underpaid.
Yeah but that’s an academic, maybe even a pedantic, difference.
It can be both at the same time which is why the problem is so exacerbated right now.
IMHO all that matters is the difference between the two.
And someone already didn’t apparently read it since they told me I should have picked it up myself.
You seem to think you mentioned that not being an option, but you didn’t mention anything about that.
I didn’t think it was necessary to mention that I can’t drive it home in my car what with the “extremely smell sensitive part.”
A pizza inside a car tends to have an odor in my experience. As does all other hot food. It’s generally one of the reasons people like hot food.
“Extremely smell sensitive” just tells me you have a keen sense of smell. Sorry bro, just saying not everyone can read your mind.
You’re retro-justifying your mistake, dude; when ‘sorry’ is just faster.
It’s like when you’ve lost the argument and you’re still piping up with “and another thing”.
Exactly like that, actually.
You’re lucky squiddy here isn’t a mod on this sub or you’d probably already be banned for “trolling” lol
I guess so. Honestly, though, if you have a rare condition and don’t want people suggesting things that you can’t do, it helps to be clear in your communication.
If you go to a restaurant and tell the server “I can’t cook and I’m smell sensitive”, they’re going to say “Ok, you’ve come to the right place”. Instead, tell them “Unfortunately, if I catch a whiff of food I’ll feel sick.” Then the restaurant can see if there’s anything they can do for you.
I just think most people, if they weren’t already aware of his Mayo Clinic saga and his rare condition, wouldn’t guess “oh this guy must have that thing where smelling food makes him feel sick” based on what he wrote. Something that rare and, let’s be honest, strange, needs to be stated clearly if he really wants people to know about it.
I mentioned the fact that he paid $8+ for someone to deliver food, and his response rubbed me as overly defensive – “Some people just don’t bother reading the original list of 5 items, comprehending each one before commenting on my precious post.”
I see this guy around all over the place and he’s always getting into slap fights with people over the dumbest shit lol
The dude mentioned a medical disability, stated he couldn’t eat solid food or cook and you assume he can drive and then criticize him for delivery? He didn’t spell out that he couldn’t drive but it was pretty obvious if you read the post… Say sorry and move on buddy. You’re in the wrong and look like an incel loser when you continue to double down.
Have you never smelled your car after picking up food? Hell I rarely drive but I’ve done short trips where all I’m doing is picking up food and having it in my car 20 minutes max; even the next evening the smell lingers in my car.
In fact my wife had to put carbon-based air fresheners in her car because she’d reheat steamed vegetable then eat them in the car during her lunches at work.
How is this hard to figure out?
I know all about his Mayo Clinic saga and his rare condition. It’s important for someone like him to be clear about what’s going on, or accept the fact that people are going to suggest things that he can’t do. If he’s not absolutely clear about it, people aren’t going to automatically assume “oh yeah, he must have that rare condition where smelling food makes him feel sick because he said he can’t cook and has sensitive smell. It’s obvious to me after reading that that there’s no way he can go pick up a pizza and not pay $8.60 for delivery.”
Most people in this thread, myself included, already know about his thing, but if someone doesn’t know about it ahead of time, I’m just trying to make the point that hey, this needs to be spelled out. If it’s not spelled out, then don’t get defensive when someone responds with an otherwise reasonable comment.
TBH that’s a logic fail on your part.
In bullet point (1) we have two important statements
Statement A: “I can’t make the food”
Followed immediately by the explanation…
Statement B: “I am dealing with an illness that makes me unable to eat solid foods and extremely sensitive to smells”
The only way Statements A and B can be related is via the smell. Being unable to EAT solid foods wouldn’t prevent OP from MAKING the food. The only possible explanation is that the sensitivity to smell is what makes them unable.
That’s, like, really basic reading comprehension skills. 🤷
Maybe you’re making an assumption. Maybe he just doesn’t know how to cook?
Maybe you can’t/won’t read an entire prompt before ejaculating your emotional retort?
If that were the case then the other statements within bullet 1 are completely irrelevant, and the relevant information has been omitted. That would be a far greater assumption than taking the statements at face value and connecting the information we have into coherent logic
LOL! Of course!
people love acting like they’re perfect and always make perfect decisions in these posts. like, you can easily advise the OP and sympathize but people love to be smug instead
Ain’t that the truth.
My delivery charge is $4.99
i had a kid workin at dominoes fairly recently. the margin is insane, and they were always understaffed. in our area they also pay the least of any restuarant. kids make more working at walmart.
the franchise owner was just a douchebag who didnt care because he knew people would keep ordering.
Do you have grocery delivery in your area? If she isn’t picky with the brand of pizza, maybe a $6 frozen pizza heated in the oven would be an alternative. Not sure if you have to tip, I haven’t tried it myself.
Cooking a frozen pizza is not an option due to the smell sensitivity. If we order a pizza (which my wife usually does), I can go into my garage office while it is here, they can turn on the kitchen fan for 15 minutes, then I can come back in.
Wow, that’s pretty out there.
Because it’s completely bullshit.
Yea, pizza places have gotten out of hand in recent years.
Adding a delivery fee (which doesn’t go to the driver) from locations that only do delivery.
How about fuck you and your delivery fee. Which is why I refuse to have pizza delivered any more. Plus they invariably get lost, though we’re a few hundred yards from their store.
Little Seizures sells the same pizza for half the price, or less, than Papa John’s, before those fees are tacked on.
The driver still gets an hourly wage, so they still need to pay them for delivering. I don’t understand how you expect delivery to be the same price as pick up.
Now compare in-house and delivery. What’s a delivery guy but a waiter who won’t come back and refill my root beer? Worst waiter ever.
Domino’s where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?
Domino’s where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?
they get paid like $2/hr when actually out on a delivery, it’s pathetic and is absolutely no reason to justify the fee
The people who order delivery must be subsidized by the pick up customers now?
Because if you pay those wages from the price of the pizza, then everyone is paying for deliveries even if they don’t get pizza delivered.
Notice nobody said the charge is too much, they immediately didn’t want to pay anything
Notice you said something factually wrong, got called out on it, and pivoted to a different argument.
What? It costs money for the delivery. That’s a fact
They don’t get paid minimum wage.
They do, except they have a $5.12 tip allowance
If they don’t make $7.25 an hour the employer must pay the difference
The only LC here is inside a gas station, but I used to love their crazy bread years ago.
I’m kind of the opposite. The only places that tend to have their own delivery drivers now are pizza joints.
I cannot stand DoorDash, the delivery always sucks but I really don’t blame the drivers. The restaurants that say “we deliver” but then offload that shit to DoorDash, take 50% of the tip piss me off the most. And now the food is nasty because some dude in his car is working up a sweat trying to deliver 16,000 other orders at the same time.
Little Seizures is my second favorite pizza place after Delicious Aneurysm.
Stroke hut is underrated
Hard to go wrong with a
$5$9 CAD Hot N Ready.
I’ve always been too much of a cheapskate curmudgeon to pay for food delivery and I’ve been increasingly baffled by people who pay hundreds of dollars a month to have cold, soggy fast food delivered at an eye watering premium.
I get laziness, I really do. For me, personally, going to pick up food is the lazy option.
Completely agree here. If I do order delivery and it’s a third party delivering I always tip a fortune because I know otherwise they won’t care — and yet it still comes back nasty and cold.
It would have only cost $22.40 if you picked it up yourself.
See “smell sensitive” in the body of the post.
You need to rewrite that to make it clearer, or maybe you enjoy belittling people for not knowing what you mean.
Who did I belittle? When did I belittle them?
1: read the post 2: that’s still a ridiculous price
She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.
Lol, with attitude like that she’ll be a delightful adult
You don’t have children, do you? She had the option of Pizza, Jimmy John’s, Chinese or nothing. She said no Jimmy John’s or Chinese.
Edit: I suppose technically I could have used Uber Eats or whatever, but that’s even pricier.
It’s crazy that you went way out of your way to placate the internet assholes and they still found something to be insufferable about.
Yeah, gotta love it.
I just take it as an opportunity to block people these days. “You gave your kid pizza so you’re a shit lazy parent and no mitigating factor will be considered” is a pretty clear indicator that they don’t need any openings into my attention span lol.
Nobody said that? Why make stuff up? People here talk about the pickiness being the issue. Children are picky unless you put the effort in to change that (most of the time, some just eat everything). It just sounded odd the way OP said it. If there were 3 options and the kid chooses one I would not call that picky to begin with.
You don’t have children, do you?
I’m not sure that person has ever seen a child
Look man, picky eating is way more complicated than, “just make the kid get over it.”
Trying to force food choices isn’t gonna do anything but give the kid complexes about trying new foods due to the high pressure they were taught to see those experiences as.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have gotten dinner as a kid if I was that picky.
I’m pretty much with you on this one. A lot of these people sound like they have terrible boundaries with their children. I get OP’s in a difficult situation, but I don’t get why they’re complaining about spending $30 on pizza when they agreed to pay that before it was even delivered. I’m not saying OP should’ve been like “you will eat what I say or you will go without dinner,” but really, as a parent you can give your child realistic options that don’t require you hiding in the garage for a couple hours. Ham sandwiches don’t smell, lots of foods don’t smell. If they “refuse,” they’re still going to want to eat later when they’re hungrier, and you make the same food choices available.
Also a large deep dish pizza from Jet’s is like $18, and it’s really hard to overstate how much more food and how much better their pizza is. Domino’s is clearly preying on people who don’t know any better or who don’t have any other options.
Hahaha, let me ask my toddler if he wants salad or chocolate.
This is why whenever my toddler asks for Mac and cheese I give him a dry salad. Gotta build that character.
Mmmm… Garden droppings
Haha my son ironically hates both of these things. He would choose to eat air in his room.
Me, living in Japan: that’s cheap for pizza and a side!
Not even any places deliver to where I live now so I have to drive a couple towns over.
Not even 5 years ago it would have been maybe $20 here.
In general, people don’t live in Indiana because it’s a great place to live. People live here because it’s affordable. In our case, it’s our elderly parents, but the fact that things used to be cheaper here is another reason we moved back.
The issue isn’t the prices. It’s that the prices go up but income doesn’t. Get out the pitchforks, but let’s go after the real villains.
And the timespan of the increased cost of everything.
Since the pandemic, construction ply more than tripled in price and isn’t going down.
That’s insane. Income can’t keep up with that.
Your income maybe didn’t go up, but this isn’t true in general
That graph doesn’t help you, it’s cropped
It looks fine on my device, maybe it didn’t finish loading?
What am I missing about your point?
Looks like income dropped following 2020 and hasn’t returned yet… am I miss reading?
During the shutdowns there’s a compositional effect of lower wage workers losing their jobs.
I’m talking about the difference from 2019 to now, people are making more money even accounting for inflation
Curious what shift there has been in full time/part time numbers. Full time wages going up is great for those who are experiencing it, but if there are less actual full timers, is that an improvement?
The art of a good statistician is to make sure what their numbers are saying is an actual reflection of reality. I’m not saying this graph is falsified, I don’t know. But numbers can be made to say anything. I learned this years ago in arguments about what “unemployment” meant. It’s much more complex than a single number, but a single number is used in the media because it’s easier to paint the picture wanted.
More full time jobs
Yes, definitely increased some. Where’s the rest of the data, such as part time or unemployed, or even population growth? Like I said, a single number means not so much without context. But it’s an impressive graph.
Unemployment is very low
Not really an improvement from 2019, but basically has been around that 4% value for a while
In fact, president Biden noted “unemployment has been at or below 4% for 30 months—the longest stretch in 50 years.”
Yes, there is a low unemployment number. As with the rest, you haven’t validated that it’s a good measure of the current state of things. It’s arguably never been.
Frozen pizzas exist.
Please read the body of the post.
Have you tried breathing through your mouth?
Also in Indiana. Pre-pandemic you could get two pizzas, bread sticks and a 2-liter of soda for that price.
Right? I moved back here in 2012 and probably last ordered a pizza before the pandemic. This was just shocking.
I can pretty rarely get under $30 for just myself ($50 for two i consider quite the deal now) and we live in a city with many options, and most places i would order from are about a 10 minute drive. I’m not saying it’s right or good, just that the prices you see are in line with what I’ve been seeing. Food is quite a bit more expensive right now.
It’s a good 1/3 more expensive than it was pre-pandemic though. I could have gotten that order for $20 in 2019.
Absolutely. Pandemic “inflation” threw all kinds of prices too high and nothing is coming back down because most industries are so small that they’re all essentially oligarchies now.
I am dead certain that the pandemic has actually put the US into a hard recession which the Fed has been covering up with various tricks. I’m pretty sure that after the presidential election, whichever way it goes, the economy is going to tank.
Ordered pizza last saturday. Two large pies, one sau+pep, one pep+olives. $30.
Local joint/non-chain.
