Damn, did you know back in the day tons of bars just gave you food for free?
Damn, did you know back in the day tons of bars just gave you food for free?
A lot of old-timey saloons would just put out a lunch buffet and as long as you bought one drink you could take what you like. Pretty good food by some accounts.
I talked to my Dad and he claimed this was still a thing in a few places as late as the early-80s, there were places with "happy hour" where they would put out a small buffet like once a week. He said in college he'd go to them and buy one beer and fill up.
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lol at "no such thing as a free lunch" being completely untrue lies made up by neoliberal ghouls
Sharing food with others, one of the most common human group activities over the last couple of thousands of years?
No such thing as a free lunch
You should attempt to brush up on your reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. If you're required to make a purchase to get free shit, the free shit is actually just shit you paid for. Might be cheap, but it ain't free.
You should brush up on your reading comprehension because the lunch was literally free, people did not pay for lunch or, if we consider your view, far less than what the lunch is worth. The point is that you could pay only for the cost of beer and the lunch comes free. If you bothered to read the Wikipedia article you would see that "These establishments included a "free" lunch, which varied from rudimentary to quite elaborate, with the purchase of at least one drink. These free lunches were typically worth far more than the price of a single drink.[1] The saloon-keeper relied on the expectation that most customers would buy more than one drink, and that the practice would build patronage for other times of day."
It was a marketing strategy for bars, sell at a loss and gain a profit another way. The point remains however that they would literally give you a lunch for free, something that I did not know actually happened.
So they intended for you to spend enough money that they'd be compensated for the "free" food, and when that didn't pan out they stopped the "free" lunches.
Ergo, no such thing as a free lunch. This a very simple concept to grasp. The fact that some people for a short period of time got food for practically free does not equate to an age old adage being a "lie", and claiming as much is utterly ignorant.
Ergo,
Ergo hog et poster hog
I believe it's what start ups today would call a "loss leader". An actual loss (ergo, an actual free lunch), with the expectation that it leads to more sales and profit in the future.
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oppa gangnam style
Oh, good for you. You JUST learned what the song meant and got to awkwardly (yet incorrectly) use it in the real world! I bet you're super proud of yourself 😊
oppa gangnam style
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Why do people post like this lmao
Because sometimes groupthink is blind lmao
Narrator: And here we see the lib poster, he neither hears or sees himself. In this hostile world of posts, he relies on the pack to survive, their shibboleths are designed to cause a herding behavior giving them safety in numbers, but today he has wondered far from the pack. Def and blind, he calls to pack, but his calls only draw the attention of the lingering critical minds slumbering within the threads...
Lib, lmao that's great. What pack am I calling on, pray tell?
Narrator: The lib confronts the shadows with confidence, unaware that he is without the safety of his pack to shower his unintelligible barks with up votes and hallow platitudes. Lacking in self awareness he continues to lash out at those around him, unaware of the hole he is digging for himself. Once deep inside this hole he will blame anyone but himself.
🤣 ok, you're not capable of discourse, just showboating for up votes. That's cool I guess.
Narrator: And yet it was he who was not capable of discourse. Such is the nature of the lib.
🤣🤣 this is exactly why lemmy will never grow. You folks aren't capable of handling different points of view, conflicting opinions, or anything that doesn't resonate perfectly with the echo chamber. Have fun watching reddit 2.0 die 😘
And you call me a "lib", thats hysterical.
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Keep posting, buddy
In these days posting through it is the only option.
He says, as he demonstrates a complete inability to think for himself.
