A Real Meal Deal

When I was in college I used to frequent a restaurant that was right across the street from campus. I loved their breakfast specials and the one I usually ordered was two eggs over easy, two strips of bacon, toast and jelly, orange juice and coffee. All that for a whopping 69 cents.

That’s right. A complete sit-down breakfast for 69 cents. Of course, that was around 1970.

The restaurant I’m talking about is no longer there but a comparable breakfast anywhere else these days would cost ten times that much. Not twice that or five times that, which would not be way out of line after 37 years of inflation. No, a ten-fold price increase that reflects our willingness to swallow just about anything nowadays.

Hell, no wonder I rarely eat breakfast out anymore.