This is $8.00 in French Fries at a Vancouver Canucks game

[shockedcanadian]

I know it is a sports arena, but even by that standard this is absurd.

We are starving here. If you have $8+ a healthy tax to burn on this tiny purchase, she should have just declined the fries and handed the money to a homeless person.

I count 13 fries here, am I wrong? If that is the case, it cost her approx 62 cents plus tax per fry, LOL.

 

[Rambunctious]

Communism is expensive!!! lol

 

[Bleipriester]

Dirt under he fingernail: 5 $

 

[deannalw]

Holy crappola.

I can buy 30 pounds of real taters for that.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Dirt under he fingernail: 5 $

Yeah I saw that too. I take the high road and presume it was a bruise under the nail on the skin. We've all had those from time to time. At least I hope it was

 

[shockedcanadian]

Holy crappola.

I can buy 30 pounds of real taters for that.

Even retail I can buy no-name frozen fries $2 for perhaps 900g or so.

 

[Donald H]

Dirt under he fingernail: 5 $

The champions of the capitalist principle of 'supply and demand' are usually the first to cry, 'uncle'.
But you won't hear them accepting that there are exceptions to the rule.

So what to do about this insignificant complaining.

Nothing! From a socially responsible POV.

It's not a 100 pound sack of potatoes that are needed for feeding a country's people being sold for $800 a sack.

We can learn from even the silliest examples of how capitalism works!

 

[1srelluc]

What is the exchange rate of a Hoser's $8.00.....Like a buck-fiddy US?

 

[Foxfyre]

I know it is a sports arena, but even by that standard this is absurd.

We are starving here. If you have $8+ a healthy tax to burn on this tiny purchase, she should have just declined the fries and handed the money to a homeless person.

I count 13 fries here, am I wrong? If that is the case, it cost her approx 62 cents plus tax per fry, LOL.
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Well since sports tickets are a lot cheaper in Canada than in the USA (I think), maybe that's how they make up the difference? I don't know. I do know the cost of being entertained these days is so high a lot of us just stay home.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Well since sports tickets are a lot cheaper in Canada than in the USA (I think), maybe that's how they make up the difference? I don't know. I do know the cost of being entertained these days is so high a lot of us just stay home.

Not hockey tickets. Insane prices. Maybe your football ticket prices are comparable.

 

[DGS49]

I remember when one of the Pittsburgh teams opened a new venue many years ago, they claimed that their vendor prices were going to be the same as the "street" prices for food and soft drinks. That lasted about as long as it took for the ink to dry on the press release. The current thinking in sports and elsewhere is that, If you are a captive audience you WILL be screwed on everything you buy, and if you don't like it YOU are the one with the problem. So "we" pay $12 for 50c worth of popcorn, $5 for a dollar candy bar, $8 for a 16 oz. cardboard cup of watered-down beer. And we just quietly accept it.

Sorry. I don't. When I go to an event, I accept I'm being screwed for the ticket price, but that's where it stops.

Nor do I buy overpriced beverages in restaurants.

As Immanuel Kant suggested, act in the way that you think everyone should act, and it will be a better world.

Maybe not in those exact words...he was speaking German, after all...but that was the gist of it.

 

[jwoodie]

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Quebec Frites? Canada needs to cut loose those cheese-eating surrender monkeys

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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Proof -- Cunadians WILL mortgage a house for a plate of poutine!

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[Zincwarrior]

So thats US$5.90. I haven't been to a stadium and eaten in some time.
ALso No poutain?

 

[Foxfyre]

Not hockey tickets. Insane prices. Maybe your football ticket prices are comparable.

You're probably right. I just did a couple second google and saw Toronto tickets $25 which wouldn't even buy the snacks here. But I didn't check out what the Toronto ticket was for.

 

[shockedcanadian]

You're probably right. I just did a couple second google and saw Toronto tickets $25 which wouldn't even buy the snacks here. But I didn't check out what the Toronto ticket was for.

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You can find Toronto Maple Leafs tickets for as low as $23 (LOL, good luck finding that one or two ticket at that price), with an average price of $304.

 

[22lcidw]

I remember when one of the Pittsburgh teams opened a new venue many years ago, they claimed that their vendor prices were going to be the same as the "street" prices for food and soft drinks. That lasted about as long as it took for the ink to dry on the press release. The current thinking in sports and elsewhere is that, If you are a captive audience you WILL be screwed on everything you buy, and if you don't like it YOU are the one with the problem. So "we" pay $12 for 50c worth of popcorn, $5 for a dollar candy bar, $8 for a 16 oz. cardboard cup of watered-down beer. And we just quietly accept it.

Sorry. I don't. When I go to an event, I accept I'm being screwed for the ticket price, but that's where it stops.

Nor do I buy overpriced beverages in restaurants.

As Immanuel Kant suggested, act in the way that you think everyone should act, and it will be a better world.

Maybe not in those exact words...he was speaking German, after all...but that was the gist of it.

Many arenas now have food from local merchants. the prices however are much higher than what you can purchase the same in the street. I think you can still carry a small plastic tote bag in stadiums. You can bring in a package of eight cooked hot dogs with rolls for the price of one hot dog at the stadium.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Yeah I saw that too. I take the high road and presume it was a bruise under the nail on the skin. We've all had those from time to time. At least I hope it was

Maybe those Canadians can’t afford soap because that’s so expensive also. I feel sorry for them, but we probably need to build a fence center at Northern border.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Maybe those Canadians can’t afford soap because that’s so expensive also. I feel sorry for them, but we probably need to build a fence center at Northern border.

Just save many of us. Reagan allowed those fleeing communists into the U.S. We have a covert police state operating at all levels here, publicly offer sanctuary for Canadians who wish to flee this and you will obtain some quality citizens.

 

[petro]

Too bad they check you now.

Back in the day, we used to sneak snacks and a few beers in our jackets or a lady's big purse.
Used to do it at movie theaters also.
8 bucks for a damn Coke?