I literally see chicken breast at walmart at 2.57$/lb, that's well below 5$ per two servings.
Add some simple mashed potatoes and you're still below 5$ to feed two people in one meal.
You can also eat bens, rice, lentils, eggs, add some cheese. There's countless simple, cheap, non processed food around.
The reality is that it's "more convenient", or at least it was, because if you had to choose between spending 3$ for a complete meal you still had to cook, and some 5/6$ McDonald's processed tasty food, you'd go with #2.
But stating that it's cheaper because of "scale economy" is just false, it isn't and never was to eat out. Let alone the impact of eating such junk food.
Cool. My local grocery store chicken is between $5-6/lb today. $2 if I buy a whole chicken and butcher it myself.
Whatever prices you're seeing are not my reality, living in a major urban area in the United States. Maybe if I bought at the Walmart in Iowa next to a factory farm I could buy it for $2.50/lb, but I can't.
Add some simple mashed potatoes and you're still below 5$ to feed two people in one meal.
You can also eat bens, rice, lentils, eggs, add some cheese. There's countless simple, cheap, non processed food around.
The reality is that it's "more convenient", or at least it was, because if you had to choose between spending 3$ for a complete meal you still had to cook, and some 5/6$ McDonald's processed tasty food, you'd go with #2.
But stating that it's cheaper because of "scale economy" is just false, it isn't and never was to eat out. Let alone the impact of eating such junk food.