Codythetiger

my acid reflux went away completely along with everything you listed

I've been told I look like Chaz Bono

Idk how it works now a days but in rural arkansas we had less than 25 players on the football team my Junior and senior year. Everybody just played a lot.

we also only won 2 games in the 3 years I was there :lol:

and somehow, someway, we had to play against the Warren 3 and that was just uglier than a meth smile

Chris Gragg
Jarius Wright
Greg Childs

3 small town guys who all played in the NFL, and all from the same year.

I remember one basketball game, our team was actually ROOTING for them because they were doing some of the craziest dunks we'd ever seen in person. :lol: :bow:

If I don't understand you the first time I say

"one more again" but I pronounce the again with a silent A and just "gen"

so it's like "one more gen?"

and then other person is trying to figure out what the frick i said back :lol:

Per AI for this thread summary

Yeah, the thread is real, and the basic complaint is legitimate—even if the original poster’s exact $38 order is being questioned.

The poster says four tacos, nacho fries, an Enchirito, and three small drinks cost $38 and change. Other posters calculated that the listed items should have been closer to $30–$33, suggesting something was omitted or the location charged unusually high franchise prices. Either way, $30+ for Taco Bell feeding three people is still nuts. The thread also repeatedly makes the annoying-but-accurate point that you now need the app or a bundled box to get anything resembling the old Taco Bell value. Read the TigerDroppings thread

Why fast food became so expensive:

Labor got considerably more expensive. Fast food depends heavily on paid hourly employees. A sit-down restaurant can legally shift part of its labor cost onto customers through tips, while Taco Bell must incorporate virtually all labor into the menu price.

Food, packaging, utilities, rent, insurance, repairs and card fees all rose simultaneously. The National Restaurant Association estimates that the average restaurant’s total expenses increased approximately 36% between 2019 and 2026. Food and labor each consume about one-third of a restaurant’s sales, leaving a typical pretax margin around 5%. National Restaurant Association cost breakdown

Fast-food chains discovered customers would tolerate higher prices. Inflation provided the initial reason to raise prices, but chains continued testing increases until traffic finally began falling. Taco Bell still produced 7% same-store sales growth in 2025, so the company had little financial incentive to reverse course. Yum Brands 2025 annual report

The regular menu has effectively become the “convenience price.” Chains deliberately keep individual tacos, drinks and entrées expensive while putting the reasonable prices inside app offers and meal boxes. That allows them to charge impatient or occasional customers full price while offering discounts only to price-sensitive customers. It is essentially airline-style price discrimination applied to tacos.

Franchisees set many local prices. They have different rent, wage and operating expenses, while also paying royalties and advertising fees based on sales. Consequently, the same Taco Bell order can vary surprisingly widely between locations.

Cheap ingredients don’t necessarily mean a cheap restaurant bill. The tortilla, beans and small amount of meat may cost very little, but you’re paying for labor, the building, equipment, drive-through convenience, franchise expenses and overhead.


And your comparison with sit-down restaurants is correct. Since 2019, limited-service menu prices have increased roughly as much as—or slightly more than—many casual-dining prices. The gap has narrowed enough that a Chili’s lunch special or local Mexican combination plate may cost about the same as a premium fast-food meal. The latest BLS figures show fast-food prices are still rising 3.1% annually, while full-service prices are rising 3.7%. June 2026 BLS report

The one catch is the tip: a $13 sit-down meal becomes approximately $16 after tax and tip. But if Taco Bell is already $12–$14 per person, an additional couple of dollars gets you table service, free drink refills and usually a better meal. At that point, fast food is selling speed and convenience, not affordability.

My honest conclusion: Taco Bell remains inexpensive only when you order a carefully selected box or app promotion. Ordering individual specialty items and drinks from the main menu is now one of the worst values in fast food—which is exactly what happened to that guy in the thread.

good morning all

Just continuing to price regular people out of shite

Good morning,

Wife and kid are about to head out of town for the next 8 hours. I can either get a lot of shite done or nothing at all

Good morning OT,

Full week and then I got next Monday and Tuesday off before a 200 hour PTO reset

It's little rock

They already have Islamic shite next to schools

A lot of fatties keeping fast food in business.

They priced my cheap arse out of it