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I’d just like to point out that OP is either lying or has been scammed.
Starbucks have consistent pricing and the most expensive sandwich in the UK is £5.10, technically 5.25 for a plant based breakfast item, see here for full menu prices.
But people like getting angry at cost of living issues right now (understandably) so this will get hundreds of upvotes despite being a lie.
Lying. They reposted from a Reddit post that shows an eight dollar Starbucks sandwich.
Still a stupid price for a crap sandwich. As I said in another reply, come to France and you will get the same thing for half the price. However, it will be nice (can you beat french bread? I think not)
can you beat french bread
When it’s a day old, you can definitely beat someone with a baguette.
Hence, “pain”.
Damn you, have my upvote!
Well that depends on the baguette. A cheap baguette moulée I agree. A nice tradition will be take around 72 hours to mature to the point it can successfully be used for violence.
I would say french bread is a close second to german bread. But I might be biased, being german and all lol
As an English person, a simple white cottage loaf cannot be beat.
But I also love French and German breads.
Fucking hell I love bread.
I may live in France, but I am English too. A simple white cottage loaf is great, that is indisputable. However the availability is laughable.
When I lived in Portsmouth, there were 2 bakeries on the whole island. 2!! in my little town here we have 4 artisan bakers, plus 3 supermarkets that all sell really good bread. Just round the corner from my house there is a farm that sells bread (made completely in house) every Friday afternoon and people take the afternoon off work and drive 2 hours to buy it.
French bread wins hands down.
However I agree with you on one thing: I love bread!
Wars have been fought for less.
In fact, it would not surprise me if an argument about bread was a factor in WW1.
Fact. Baguettes are awesome.
£5.1 is slightly less but stil outrageous for £0.30 of food
£0.30 of food
how cheap is food on the other side of the channel?!
Maybe more than in the UK, but here in a supermarket that would be 0.20€ of ham, 0.10€ of chese and 0.30€ of bread. Considering the volume starbucks has, I don’t think it’s unreasonable they would pay half of what you pay in a supermarket.
Of course these numbers I’m all taking our of my ass, but I think they are a close estimate. There’s a reason if Starbucks is so profitable
You literally bought it, stfu
Because in Starbucks, you get to look at the sandwich before you buy it… oh wait that’s not right.
So u buy stuff without looking at them?? HAHAHA? Nice flex bro HAHAHA
You do know how prepackaged food works right? You buy it, they take it out of the package and heat it up or serve it to you… it’s behind the counter. You don’t get to pick one out and ask for it. Dumbass…
U buy stuff without knowing what it is but im the dumbass one HAHAHAH daddy is paying it’s alright, spoiled brat
HAHAHA
And they served it to you on a Dixie paper plate? I call bullshit but idk why I’m even posting here because you just reposted this in pounds instead of dollars LOL
Dont buy food in a shitty ciffee shop… lol
At least post some original content!
No. Steal the shit out of Reddirt. Idgaf.
People here arent usually on reddit. So its nice to see things crossposted here
Also I feel like this is a stealth ad for starbucks, because that doesn’t look half-bad, and now we’re all talking about it
My guy…
Just slap a label on it like with artisan bread and any hipster out there will grab it up yum…
This is not a sandwich.
Maybe they should call it “Ceci n’est pas une sandwich” and charge £12 instead.
The Treachery of Starbucks
It’s a song!
NO IT’S A SANDWICH
What would make you think otherwise?
This is sandwich, but not for 8£ maybe 20 whatever they use in UK I’ll just say cents or even less than that
No, it’s just bread and cheese and ham.
The most popular sandwich in France is the Jambon-Beurre, which is just butter and ham
I’d call that buttered ham. A sandwich requires bread!
And it cost less than half of this one at Montparnasse and is much nicer
I see no butter or similiar here.
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two slices of bread + something inbetween = sandwich
How about a folded piece of bread with stuff in the middle. Is that a sandwich?
How about a sub.
How about a taco… is a taco a sandwich?
A sub is definitely a sandwich.
no, and neither is a hot dog, wrap, burger, baguette nor a bagel
It’s my wife! millions of boomers laughing
You don’t buy Starbucks food for the value. You do it cause there’s one on the way to work/school.
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The secret is to use pork when you make Carne con chile
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Wait, is this real? No way… I make better sandwiches in the 2 minutes time that I’m late for work.
No, it’s not.
This is a £5.10 item in the UK, the pic is taken from a reddit post complaining about spending 8 dollars in the US. Which is still a lot but not £8.
So, the pictured is still a legitimate Starbucks sandwich?
That’s twice as much cheese & ham as the ones in the U. S., which cost about the same.
I mean you could see what was on it before you bought it, that’s on you dog. All you did was prove people will pay that much for a shit sandwich.
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I’ve been to a Starbucks once in my life and that was in August of 2012. I have never been back since I never plan to go back. I absolutely do not understand the appeal.
It brings that consistent Seattle blandness everywhere it goes.
Neal Stephenson said it best in Snow Crash :
"In olden times, you’d wander down to Mom’s Café for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home. It worked just fine if you never left your hometown. But if you went to the next town over, everyone would look up and stare at you when you came in the door, and the Blue Plate Special would be something you didn’t recognize. If you did enough traveling, you’d never feel at home anywhere.
But when a businessman from New Jersey goes to Dubuque, he knows he can walk into a McDonald’s and no one will stare at him. He can order without having to look at the menu, and the food will always taste the same. McDonald’s is Home, condensed into a three-ringed binder and xeroxed. “No surprises” is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.
The people of America, who live in the world’s most surprising and terrible country, take comfort in that motto."
My main reason to go to McDonalds on a business trip is, that you can eat there on your own without looking lonely.
Thanks but no, I can’t eat anywhere without looking lonely.
Snow Crash is one of the greatest books ever written.
It’s a little game I play whenever I am abroad to go check out a chain place to see how different it is. Very anecdotal
7-11 is all over the place. Prices and what they have will vary by country.
Starbucks is consistent on high end drink items both in price and what they make.
Dunkin is pretty much the same everywhere except you can’t seem to get drip coffee in some countries.
MacDonalds is the same with maybe one local item. Kinda cool getting a beer in Germany with some French fries.
Same. Been to a few places in southeast Asia and Starbucks is pretty much the same everywhere there. So I can step off a street full of stalls selling all sorts of food items that I would class as “extremely adventurous” into a store with recognisable sweet/savoury cafe food options. I can relax in consistently dark-hued wood decor with a consistent assortment of tables/couches/chairs/charging points, and a consistent range of coffee drinks that each have enough calories to sustain a local family for a week.
It is consistent, has bathrooms, and they don’t bother you if you sit there for a while. I have been avoiding them but you asked and I answered.
Crime!
That’s like $13 up here in Canada. But I’d assume they have the same sandwiches here. But wow, that’s outrageous.
