People in Australia are literally like the OP and then say there's a cost of living crisis unironically

If it's 4 minutes away why not walk? The fuck?

I assume op just burned and extra $5 for fun as part of this whole interaction..

They probably mean a 4 minute drive, which would be like a 30 minute walk, assuming you can cross the 6-lane monstrosity of a road that the pizza place is on without being smushed by a lifted F-250.

Right? If they didn't order 25 dollar avocado toast every day, they'd be able to afford a house by the time they're 70.

Imagine this. People should be able to afford delivery pizza.

if an 8 minute round trip saves you $15, then you're essentially paying yourself $112.50/hr to be your own delivery driver

While there is nutrition value to some bugs, most grasses pass undigested through the human gut. We are not ruminants Also if you leave bugs for a chicken to eat, you can have eggs instead.

It's remarkable how much people will complain about delivery fees and refuse to cook themselves, or even go out and buy premade food

Don't mention keeping chickens on Lemmy, you'll get some vegan telling you how unethical it is to have a chicken and eat its eggs

Tax.

Is that not already included in the price in the US? I don't live in the US, this is a genuine question.

Yeah that's some pretty insane cost/benefit for time.

It's one of those things I like doing to encourage myself to do things. "OK so if I do this thing by myself, what am I 'getting paid'?"

...and then I compare that to the number of hours I'd have to work to earn the same amount of money (after taxes).

I mean you can but back in the olden days (the 90's) take away pizza was a treat not dinner every night and before the 90's going out to a restaurant was a treat there was no delivery

He's also 4 minutes away from the pizza shop, just go out and pick it up ya fatty

If you weren't spending $25k per year on obscene uber eats take away fee's you could have a deposit in 3-5 years

eating bugs isn't vegan neither tho

One of the food delivery apps labeled something “long distance delivery” at five miles. I could walk that. I didn’t, but I certainly didn’t pay someone else to drive it.

No more than it is to have a pet cat and give away its 6-8 week old children to strangers by force.

Frozen

Pizza

no

Nobody is spending 25K per year on uber eats pizza.

Or half a mile if you have a couple junctions with red lights ahead, like around the block. Anon could've been living in a flat over said pizza joint for all we know. Or they are just a liar, who also have a crush on delivery driver, so they order pizza to see them again.

Well, about that ...

How much detached from reality is this guy. Is he a CEO or something?

Things don't have to be that bad. Here in vietnam you can get a bahn mi or soup for 75 cents to 2 dollars, people who make way less than you do eat out every single day and still manage to save money.

The problem isn't that people want to pay someone else to make or deliver food, the problem is that it's all insanely overpriced because capitalism.

Are you a CEO or something? You're so detached from reality. Are all your memories based on sitcoms from 1992? Ya been at a grocery store lately? Seen the prices there? Exactly when do You think delivery was invented?

And yet the delivery driver makes fuckall.

Tax is not included in listed prices in the USA.

It's infuriating.

The state that I lived in there had a tax at restaurants. Each town was allowed to add up to a percent to that. Some did 0%, some 0.5% some 1%. Also, alcohol was taxed at a different rate.

So basically you had no idea what the actual cost for food would be when you ordered.

He used coins as extra topping.

I don't know if they deliver to the USA, but this electric pizza cooker is amazing:

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHPM5iA

It gets twice as hot as a normal oven in a few minutes and makes amazing pizza. You can buy dough, pizza sauce, and shredded cheese - or make all of these from scratch very easily.

It doesn't take a lot of space. My rough estimate is that it uses the same electricity as cooking pizza in an oven.

If you're spending $25 on pizza then it will quickly pay for itself.

One downside is that it does take some space, so if you're in a really cramped living environment (dorm room, Manhattan apartment) then you might not have room. Also, you may end up eating a lot more pizza than you should...

That's something my father taught me. Always consider what your time is worth. Invest 2 hours just to save 8 Euro? Not a great deal for most people.

I don't usually buy premade food in the supermarkets, but when I do - I'm super picky. The thing about them is that even the best meals I can find have too much salt. The ingredients are fine, it's really not hard to get meals that aren't superprocessed for cheap, but the macros are always off.

<2 grams of salt per serving is what I find unusually few in premade meals, and it's still an awful lot compared to what I'm personally adding when I cook.

No wonder if you're living in a metropolitarian area, 5 miles is quite hefty in big cities

Many Americans don’t have healthy grass if they have grass in the first place. In many places in the US keeping a pristine grass yard requires a shit ton of human intervention, which means fertilizers and a ton of chemicals. Since grass isn’t native to those areas.

Are you ordering 3 pizzas every day?

LAWYER! I need my lawyer! I'm under undue pressure!

People who are used to eating that much salt just don't even notice when good is way too salty. I grew up eating whatever processed shit was put in front of me, but after reducing my salt and sugar intake years ago, I'm now acutely sensitive to food when it's too salty or sweet, which is a serious departure from my tastes when I was young

I think not, even the prices in grocery store don't include VAT. It seems absurd to me

$10 + $7 + $2 or $3 = $19 or $20. Sales tax would be less than a dollar. Anon's unhealthy lifestyle is causing cognitive decline

sigh

Eggs aren't babies, they're periods.

the problem is that it’s all insanely overpriced because capitalism.

You think Vietnam has cheap food because it’s not capitalism?

Pizza shop is 4 minutes away

Orders delivery

Joke’s on OP

What does grocery store prices have to do with a fat fuck ordering pizza delivery on uber eats from a pizza shop 4 minutes away?

Nothing to do with that. But You're suggesting that ordering a pizza is wasting money. Well currently a delivered pizza isn't much more expensive than food from the store. You seem unaware of that.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185335/median-hourly-earnings-of-wage-and-salary-workers/

according to this the median hourly wage is $20 in 2024, so it would take the median worker 1.25 hours to afford this overpriced pizza

if he picked it up instead of relying on delivery he could get it for $10, which is 30 minutes work

average worker does 8.4 hours of work per day

i think this all might be a bit hyperbolic 😅

lmao get fucked

delivered pizza isn’t even as cheap as pickup, which if we go by the OP’s post is over 50% cheaper, let alone the $5 meals at aldi that even I can get in Australia and we have the highest labour costs in the world

honestly the way some of you talk about America you make it seem like Ethiopia

chickens don't menstruate

No, I think prices increase under capitalism as commercial rent increases and effective monopolies are formed.

1 person can make dozens of pizzas per hour, the ingredients are cheap. Its extremely abnormal for basic prepared food to be considered a luxury.