You might not know what it means, so let me enlighten you. Sandwich inflation, that's what sandflation means and I've just been subjected to it in the most brutal and unsatisfying way.
I was out doing stuff and with a heavy day of work at home ahead of me decided to grab a toasted sandwich and coffee at the mall instead of making it myself at home. A bit of a treat? Yeah maybe, it's always nice to have someone else do the cooking now and then.
I ordered and it arrived soon after.
The coffee was ok, just ok, and the sandwich? Let's just call it suboptimal. I don't eat a lot bread or carbs usually so was sort of looking forward to the roasted chicken, cheese, avocado and sundried tomato toasted sandwich but it let me down in a major way.
Fucken terrible.
Furthermore, the fucken terrible-toasted-sandwich-debacle cost me $24.85 (AUD) which is just under $18USD. That's a lot I reckon.
Australia is the highest taxed country in the world and the government is doing a really good job at making the cost of living skyrocket. You'll not understand unless you live here, but the Albanese Labour Government are bending Australians over and fucking them up the ass. Yep, that's the professional terminology for what they're doing.
Mother fucken cunts.
Anyway, inflation rises and wages and salaries don't keep up and it's all fucked when a person can't buy a single toasted sandwich and small coffee for a reasonable price.
If you live in a first-world country I'd like to hear about how things are in your country. Feel free to comment if you want to.
(No, the image is not the sandwich I refer to in this post, it was one I had a while back and it was legit).
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18 USD for a sandwich is expensive indeed. On 1st July the government here reduced the VAT rate on restaurant food from 13.5% to 9%, so a sandwich would cost you around 10-12 euro or 12 USD. I reckon that's still exorbitant though.
It's been alarming to watch the rise in the cost of living, quality drop and prices rise and of course, shrinkflation. No signs of slowing though, here at least. It's very costly to live well here.
Prices are going up here in the Netherlands too. Inflation and maybe even worse; shrinkflation are happening here as well.
Salaries are indexed as well, but they don't seem to increase as fast to compensate for the increased prices.
People complain, but the bars and restaurants are still full. A lot of people still can afford it, but there is a limit. At some point people will say; this is enough.
The first to notice this are the festivals. We have quite a few very popular festivals in The Netherlands of which the tickets were sold out year after year having trouble selling their tickets now because people find it too expensive. Because of the 'increased costs' they raised ticket prices year after year. You could say this is a legit reason, because the costs for the organizers has increased.
But I have looked up the price increase over the past 10 years of one of the most popular two day festival; Lowlands.
Between 2016 and 2025, the price increased from €185 to €349. That is an increase of €164. That is 89% increase in 10 years! And the inflation was 'only' 34%.
And than you don't even have food and drinks yet, which, at a festival are very expensive too. You could buy quite some sandwiches from that ;)
It's weird, the same here with people spending, they just keep doing it. However at the same time people are dropping things like insurances, investments and savings, a sharp decline in all, so that's where some of the money is coming from.
I think most first-world countries are in decline.
I assume that Lithuania is still first-world country. Even if we seem to be going backwards sometimes. Not so long ago I read the news that someone stole 4 watermelons. The interesting part is that they apparently costed 200(?!) eur. So even if I would ever succeed selling an art piece for 400(so far I did not come close to that) I would only be getting 8 watermelons worth of money...I still find this very weird. One would think that any half decent art piece/ unique luxury item should be worth more than a few fucking watermelons.
And don't get me started about the prices of wooden briquettes...Last year I paid 430 for two pallets. This year three pallets costed 920(these prices are with delivery). But the ,,best part''? After I bought wooden briquettes this year those bastards rised prices again and again. First one pallet costed 350. Now 370...
I also heard that one our politician bought some land. and the same year sold it for 5 times bigger price... I like living in Lithuania. I would not want to live in another country. But some things here seems just insane.
It's alarming to think where it's all leading. Here, higher cost of living has led to a higher crime rate for one thing, a decline in services and quality right across the board and many many people falling into deep financial trouble. Something will break so badly eventually I think and then the true chaos will begin.
That sucks. It seems like it's hard to get a decent sandwich anywhere these days. I did find one at a place called Papa Kelsey's. I ordered their Italian sandwich "whole" thinking it was a 12" sandwich for $22 and it ended up being a 16" instead.
I was pleasantly surprised at it, but it's sadly not the norm anymore.
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18$ is quite insane, not expensive but a theft
I can relate to ice creams, they used to cost 2-2,20€ until a few years ago, now they cost 3,50€ and they are even fucking smaller! 2 bites and they are gone
A pizza Margherita above the average quality is 8€, used to be 4,50€