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Yeah I’m seeing $20 sandwiches in NYC now.

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Just last week I've spent 20 bucks for 4 balls of ice cream. It felt like being mugged...

Who forced you to buy the ice cream?

If they wanted to buy ice cream and that was the price, then they had to pay it or they wouldn’t get ice cream.

Are you saying there is a lower cost ice cream store across the street?

There's a convenience store chain where I live that has a "flavor of the week" available at $3.39 for a half gallon.

But if you want to lose weight, perhaps it's better not to know.

They're saying that it's pretty silly to compare buying ice cream to being mugged. If it's too expensive, don't buy the ice cream. The price of ice cream isn't an invariant, if nobody buys it the price will decrease. If nobody has a problem paying $5/scoop for ice cream, that's what the price is going to be.

There's nothing silly about it. It's just a metaphor. It's more incredulous that people have a problem with figurative speech like this than the comparison itself.

Its called hyperbole. Seriously HN can be so pedantic sometimes.

Hyperbole, like sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet.

American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.

>American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.

I feel like this is sarcasm, but I guess that my inability to know proves the point

I went into a bar and asked for a glass of wine they had already poured it into a plastic cup before informing me it was 19 bucks. I was mugged.

Sometimes prices are inelastic after you've stood in line wanting ice cream. You have to price in human emotion. Next time he'll probably find a cheaper place.

Sounds like typical NYC to me, as someone from the rest of the state. Every time I've eaten in NYC it's been mediocre and expensive.

To be fair, there's a lot of incredible food here too...

$20 is the new five

I heard the phrase "Yuppie food stamps" meaning ATM-dispensed $20s, a long time ago, and didn't people start using the term "Yuppie" in the 80s?

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