or worse, won't pursue to the end of my rant.
R and I had our first ~$20 hamburgers, and ~$80 hotel dinners in London some time early last year.
"WELL, DUH!," you're shouting--or you will, once I tell you we were staying at the St. James Buckingham Palace--"what ELSE would you EXPECT in that neck of the woods, given the dollar's very apparent decline against the BGP even back then???? And anyway you weren't exactly at the very bottom of the wide range of accommodation rates London offers, were you?
>sheesh!<"
And you'd be right.
My point: yes, yes, $20/$80 are not exactly budget-busters in and of themselves. But those meals were simplicity itself, basically "a" hamburger, and "a" chop. Tasty, I suppose, but certainly nothing over the top, cuisine-wise. In that sense they were our Most (unexpectedly) Expensive Dinners.