Yeah, even ignoring that, theres no way that claim is valid. The price of food here has over doubled since 2019. I used to work at a store during that time and got a burrito every single day, after tax it came to $1.03. Now, at the same store, same burrito, it cost $2.46 after tax. My $3 box of snack cakes comes to $5 now, cigarettes have almost trippled, and my rent has almost doubled since i moved here in 2020. Almost everything here is at least twice as expensive as it was in 2019, and my wage has only gone from about $9/h to about $12/h. I even have pictures of price tags from then, once i find them ill upload then/now pictures of the price tags.

So they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)

Now they advertise $5 shorties and the millennial in me has to do a doubletake of incredulity

The Five Dollar Footlong was a promo created in 2003 when the normal price of a footlong was $6, by a single franchisee. By the time the promo went national, supported by the chain itself (and a national ad campaign), in 2008, that became a big enough deal to really move sales. And they watered it down at some point (by late 2010 when I was working next to a Subway and no other lunch options, I remember it only being a specific sandwich that rotated monthly, with all other footlongs regularly priced). And it was eventually discontinued in 2012.

It's hard to pin this particular promo and call it totally representative of all pricing in the mid 2010s.

Subway argued in court that "Footlong" is a trademarked brand, and does not mean it's 12 inches. Then they argued that the average consumer would KNOW this, and not be confused by these terms.

Footlong is a subway branded term for their bigger sub. Foot long is a generic term that means one foot long.

Yes, that's real. I'm not joking. They legitimately did this. Just like Fox News argued in court that their station is NOT a news network. It is an entertainment network, presenting purely opinion based stories. As such, they have ZERO obligation for their stories to contain even a shred of truth or fact to their stories. And "Fox News" is a branded term, not relating to, or presenting factual news reports.

On a related note, would anyone like to buy "Bigger Penis Pills"? I mean, it's just condensed sugar in tablet form. But I've branded it as "Bigger Penis Pills", and selling it for $100 per pill.

I think we already all smoke gasoline anyways, it's called exhaust.. ☹️

I want 20 dollar coins too. If you take inflation from early 1800s to now the dollar coin would be worth more.

Someone could probably successfully pitch this to Trump with. "We waste so much money on printing bills, coins last forever" "paper money is so dirty" "We could shut down the Denver mint once we have enough coins made" "They will all be plated in gold type material" "we will put your face on the 20 coin, everybody will see your face forever everyday"

... On second thought maybe don't pitch it to him

They introduced the Sacagawea dollar coins a while back with the expectations that people would use them for daily transactions. After an initial brief interest, they quickly fell off. Turns out that people in the US don't really care to use coins, and used the paper $1 bills at every opportunity.

We ditched the penny in Canada years ago. Nickels and dimes are near useless

That used to be their normal everyday deal in the 90s. 5 for 5. Then it was 4 for 5, then 3 for 5. Now I don't even know if you can get one sandwich for that.