• CelloMike@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “Jim, we can’t [continue to] sell this hot dog for a buck fifty. We are losing our rear ends.” According to Jelinek, Sinegal replied, “If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.”

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      If they ever raise the price then the humble Costco hot dog is going to be one of those things that serves as a legendary “economic indicator” up there with the stockbrokers jumping out of windows on black Tuesday.

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    2 days ago

    Lmao at the shitty photoshop edit.

    Not even calling this a fake; I’m sure it’s for sale somewhere. Just that the seller couldn’t even be assed to take a post-print picture and just slapped a picture of the print on a generic black shirt photo instead.