"So what does it mean that a child doesn't get a hot meal in Austria? Do you know what the cheapest hot meal in Austria is? It's not healthy, but it's cheap: a hamburger at McDonald's — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50. Now someone is seriously claiming that we live in a country where parents can't afford this meal for their child," he said.
"If I have too little money, I go to work more," he added in the video, which was filmed during a wine-and-cheese event near Salzburg — with no burgers in sight — his conservative People's Party confirmed to Plus24.
i hope he chokes to death on a piece of rotten cheese in his wine cave
Even disregarding this being a horrible choice for your child's nutrition that's a pretty bad deal, you could get much more food by buying cheap brands in the supermarket.
This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally conservative EU politicians have the sense to refrain from such statements even if probably most of them believe the same.
lol, in my experience French conservative politicians are equally out of touch. They're bourgeois fucks, they have no idea what a bus ticket costs. See this compilation from a few years ago
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/pain-au-chocolat-a-10-centimes-ticket-de-metro-a-4-euros-quand-les-politiques-vivent-dans-un-autre-monde_1887529.html
They live on another plane of existence, they can't do anything themselves so it's not surprising they don't know the price of things
'It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?'
Or even better:
C.J.: It's not that I wanna don a shroud, I just think the Polly-Anna act's not wearing well. Sir, I'm worried that at some point avoidance starts to look like maybe we just haven't noticed. We run the risk of appearing out of touch, like one of those President's who doesn't know the price of milk. Sir, do you know the price of milk?
BARTLET: Not precisely.
C.J.: Neither do I. Do any of us?Milk has up to 30% pus in it where I'm from (legal limit). Who buys that crap anyway?
Bananas are less than a dollar per pound.
well to be fair I don't know the price of milk and I buy milk at the store. That's not information I memorise
You probably know the ballpark. They have no idea what the correct order of magnitude is
it's been harder since the ukraine war as things keep getting more and more expensive rapidly
€3.50 every day would be €108.50 per month for a single person eating a single meal per day
that's way more than i spend at the supermarket and i eat two meals per day that are way more filling and actually healthy lmao
I can almost assure you it was one of those gatherings of pretentious snobs that extend their pinky when sipping from their Château Latour.
Who tf can afford to eat at McDonalds, have you seen their prices lately?
His opinion used to be much more widespread 10 or 15 years ago. Now poor people can't even eat fast food without being judged for wasting money.
He's not just a capitalist pig, he's an out of touch capitalist pig.
Fast food is now treated as a "expensive night out" for us. It's like $30 for standard cost.
It’s inflation. This is simply what happens when the governments print money.
no, this is what happens monetary policy is the only tool in the neoliberal toolbox, corporate profiteering is unchecked, and 2 million workers die off to keep the rent checks coming.
And after the delivery services started taking over, it's not even fast. At my local place anything other than nuggets and fries takes 20-30min minimum.
What on earth happened to all the small businesses in my "poor" rural village? Oh right, that pedestrian unfriendly stroad next to the freeway with the Walmart and all the fast food restaurants sucking up the village's life force happened.
Did they go looking doe the most smug, I'm-an-asshole expression possible for that guy, or does he just look like that?
Are you banking on a prion disease to take them out? Because cannibalism is a major risk factor for that.
Not sure how things are in Austria but where I live fast food is really expensive for someone strapped for cash
God forbid the ghouls lose their comfort while they commit warcrimes
I mean it's one Big Mac, Michael, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?
Is McDonald's cheap anywhere other than the US? In the US, there's a bunch of promotions that drive costs way down...
Yeah, I always heard in my youth that McDonald's is the poor's restaurant (in the US at least). However it was never really the case e.g. in Hungary. It was always average priced at best. You can eat far better for far less in every moderate-sized town.
In the US you can get a burger and fries for $2 with their in-app promotions. On a per-calorie basis, it's actually very competitive with cooking yourself.
Dang, it's like around 10-15 AUD here. Best eating out calories to dollars is probably domino's cheap line of pizzas
Spicy McChicken + free large fries no salt is sorta fire tho
It's like $2.80 including tax
In Denmark you pay DKK 101 (USD 14,20) for a big mac meal with fries and a soft drink. It tastes a lot cheaper than that though.
this line of thinking has never backfired on aristocrats before, and certainly not Austrian aristocrats specifically
Death to America
lol, su true! It's literally the first thing that comes to mind!
Mr. Karl Marie Antoinehammer skipped some history class
: "But look at the SHAREHOLDER VALUE!"
