• @[email protected]
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    162 years ago
      4 slices of meat
      2 slices of cheese
    + 2 slices of bread
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     £8
    

    What’s not to get?

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    262 years ago

    I’ve clearly eaten too many lunches from food vendors (including SB) inside convention centers because I expected see maybe 2 slices of ham and 1 of cheese for $8 (in 2023 money). And maybe a lettuce leaf that is probably a recycled hot coffee sleeve dyed green.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      102 years ago

      Actually, you were right. This sandwich contains 2 half slices of cheese and 4 half slices of ham.

        • Rhynoplaz
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          I don’t think it is. Look at the second slice from the top. There’s a hole on the left edge. If it was folded, I would expect to see a layer between the hole and the third slice. If it is folded, every fold is so perfect that there is no overhang on any edge. You cannot possibly fold irregularly shaped ham slices with that kind of precision.

          Source: I sandwich.

  • finthechat
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    “Yes, go fuck yourself in your fucking face.”

    -Starbucks

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    That’s like $13 up here in Canada. But I’d assume they have the same sandwiches here. But wow, that’s outrageous.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    My work’s cafeteria had sandwiches like that. Something like £5-6 a sandwich. People dont buy food in there now unless they’re desperate. Colleague bought chilli con carne in there the other week as he didnt have time to prepare his own food. It was like gravel

  • arthurpizza
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    132 years ago

    You don’t buy Starbucks food for the value. You do it cause there’s one on the way to work/school.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s your own damn fault for trying to get food at fucking Starbucks, the coffee isn’t even good unless you’re at pikes place

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      Not entirely true, the stores that unionized have better tasting coffee in comparison to regular sb

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      522 years ago

      Yeah, support a local sandwich shop.

      Probably won’t be much cheaper but it’ll be ten times the quality.

      • @[email protected]
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        372 years ago

        My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.

        If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitor at the low end.

        You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          162 years ago

          Luckily the downtown in the city where I live doesn’t allow chain restaurants so I have many options for decently priced food.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          Also how else is the roof of your mouth going to get tougher without starbucks sandwiches?

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        Coffee will be better as well. Starbucks burns their beans so they can guarantee the same “quality” flavor at every location.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          This I can actually weight in on a bit. They have their recipe under full version control and plant operations can only adjust it slightly without HQ doing an override. Not their air waste handling however, that is under local control.

    • pruwyben
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      32 years ago

      pikes place

      Speaking of mildly infuriating 😆

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      They charge that much because the market will bear it. 🤷🏻‍♂️ That’s on us consumers.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.

    • @[email protected]
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      182 years ago

      It’s not shocking for me. They don’t make real coffee, how would they know how to make food?

      • Bilb!
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        22 years ago

        They don’t make real coffee

        The coffee at Starbucks is real, I’ve seen it in person

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    As a supertaster and inveterate picky eater, that actually looks pretty good. Could use some mayo and/or mustard though.

  • Björn Tantau
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    Don’t they make the sandwiches to your specification in the UK?

    Edit: I’m stupid, I read that as Subway.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    If you lived in LA, this would be a £12 sandwich. the sandwich economy here is out of control.

  • wjrii
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    Bought a cold sandwich at a quick-service place in England.

    There’s your problem. This one has a certain appeal, though. I’d pay eight pounds just to be spared the usual pile of cucumber slices, old egg, and obscene quantity of mayonnaise.

    • Norgur
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      72 years ago

      There is no such thing as an “obscene quantity of mayonnaise”.

    • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe
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      I too am impressed they managed to not include tomatoe, avocado, bacon, lettuce, or a sauce of any sort, while simultaneously not bothering to interlace the cheese between the meat for a more interesting texture profile.

      It looks like prison food.