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Old Oct 31, 2019 | 1:00 pm
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Originally Posted by jerseytom
Not to get too off topic here, but just to be clear - we're saying $7-8 isn't a cheap dinner?

I mean sure I guess there was a time when a hamburger was $0.15... but minimum wage was $0.75/hr and the 707 hadn't taken flight yet...
I remember as a small child, my father taking me out for a $0.29 hamburger on my birthday and then afterwards we stopped at a gas station and he commented that a gallon of gas was the same price as a hamburger, which thinking about it today, is close to the same. And yes, $7-8 is a cheap dinner.
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