Behind the Restaurant Meal Delivery Industry, there is a Black Market Exploiting Illegal Foreign Labor

If you are having restaurant food “dashed” to your residence, there is a very good chance that the person delivering your meal is part of a black market of non-citizen labor, illegally subcontracted by the actual “independent contractor” of Door Dash, Uber Eats, and the like.

Two years ago, the New York Times published a highly sympathetic article about this industry, focusing on the awful plight of illegal immigrants dumped in Ney York City but not eligible to work, and how sub-contracted food delivery provides a source of income. All the same, the Times did acknowledge the exploitation of this illegal workforce, documenting the financial arrangement under which Venezuelan “migrant” Mayco Milano operated. Specifically, the business model under which Mr. Milano delivers food is:

• An unlicensed moped is rented for $400 per week from a black-market moped broker.

• Login access to an Uber Eats account is rented for $150 per week from “Jessica.”

• Mr. Milano works long hours, 7 days a week, delivering food throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The commission before tip is about $4 per delivery.

• At $550 per week for the combined rent of the moped and Uber Eats login, divided by the $4 commission per delivery, it takes about 135 food deliveries per week before Mr. Milano breaks even.

• “Jessica” is the one getting paid by Uber Eats. She then pays Mr. Milano and her other subs in cash, after taking her administrative fee for subcontracting her Uber Eats login to them. Not every “Jessica” reliably pays their subs, however, and the subs obviously have no recourse when Jessica pockets their earnings.

A few weeks ago, Pirate Wires published a sobering article by Sagnik Basu that details the extent of the exploitation of people such as Mayco Milano, while also shaming the smug consumers who believe they are the good guys for providing a living to off-the-books food dashers. This article was subsequently re-published by The Free Press, but the Pirate Wires version is not behind a paywall:

“Abolish ICE! (So You Can Get Your $10 Burrito at Midnight); Migrants keep yuppies fed while liberals romanticize the hustle of their tired African burrito messengers, ignoring the exploitation going on behind the scenes” [Pirate Wires – Sagnik Basu – 10/20/2025]

This is one of those “read every word” articles, which I encourage you to do, but here are a few pull quotes:

Walk through Midtown at night and the story writes itself. Gas-powered mopeds idle in clusters outside the Roosevelt Hotel, their headlights cutting through steam from the street vents. Riders sit slumped over paper cups of coffee, helmets at their feet. Upstairs, people in $4,000/month apartments track their Uber Eats orders on their phones: “Your Thai curry is six minutes away.” Everyone in this city knows what’s going on. We just don’t say it out loud.

Outside the Roosevelt Hotel or shelters in Queens, you can buy a complete starter kit: moped, helmet, insulated bag, and Uber Eats login — “todo junto,” all together. Ads circulate through WhatsApp groups and Facebook Marketplace targeting Venezuelan and Guinean migrants. It’s an informal franchise system that works because everyone involved is desperate enough to honor it.

Most riders are paid in cash. There are no 1099s, no payroll records, no worker’s comp when they crash on wet pavement. The city forfeits tax revenue; the companies forfeit liability; the riders forfeit everything.

What we call the “gig economy” is, in practice, a debt-and-fear economy — one that goes unchallenged in hyper-progressive places like NYC precisely because liberals have redefined “compassion” as ignoring the law.

The young professional who tweets “abolish ICE” orders pad thai at 11 p.m. from a rider whose entire existence depends on ICE looking the other way. They think guilt-tipping 35 percent makes them virtuous. But it’s just exploitation offset by sentiment.

If Uber Eats or DoorDash can build billion-dollar machine-learning models to predict delivery times, they can build one to verify who’s actually delivering.

This will come with costs. When you close the pipeline of illegal labor, prices will rise. Fewer $10 burritos at 11 p.m. More delivery fees. More friction. Good. Because that’s the real price of legality. If we want a humane system, it has to be lawful first. You have to enforce the border, punish exploitation, and end the moral outsourcing that lets you feel good while someone else breaks the law for you.

If compassion means preserving a shadow economy of fear, debt, and exhaustion, then it’s not compassion at all. It’s exploitation wrapped in virtue.

Coincidentally, just a few days after publication of the Pirate Wire piece, Culper Research issued a devastating research opinion to investors about Door Dash’s business model, while also advising that Culper was taking a short position in Door Dash stock (meaning they expect the stock price to drop). Per Culper Research’s website, Culper is a watchdog that seeks “to expose companies which have misrepresented their operations, failed to disclose significant risks, misused capital, possess accounting irregularities, or otherwise deceived investors.”

Below this tweet from Culper, I’ll spotlight a few key quotes and findings from their 29-page Research Opinion about Door Dash.

NEW: We are short DoorDash $DASH, the largest food delivery group in the U.S. We believe DoorDash has engaged in a covert multi-year scheme to "backdoor" unauthorized workers, both at unprecedented scale and unique to $DASH. Full report and disclaimers at https://t.co/4MDshx5BeT
— Culper (@CulperResearch) October 23, 2025

“DoorDash: Unauthorized Dasher ‘Backdooring’ Scheme Props Up Delivery Operations, Undermines Safety, and Unravels as Immigration Enforcement Widens” [Culper Research – 10/23/2025]

We are short DoorDash, Inc. (“DASH”, “the Company”, the largest app-based food delivery company in the U.S. Based on our extensive research, we believe DoorDash has quietly onboarded unauthorized and unvetted contract workers at a scale that is both unprecedented in U.S. corporate history and unique to the Company.
In late 2021, DoorDash quietly dropped delivery courier (“Dasher” SSN requirements and created an industry-unique “backdoor” to onboard unauthorized workers via individual taxpayer ID numbers (“ITINs”. We estimate unauthorized Dashers have since become responsible for 26% to 57% of Company-wide deliveries.
Regulators are cracking down. An “unprecedented” April 2025 ICE/IRS partnership now puts ITIN holders and their employers in federal crosshairs. DoorDash also appears to be subject to an undisclosed SEC investigation, per a July 2025 Freedom of Information Act request.

DoorDash portrays Dashing as a “side hustle” opportunity for everyday Americans, but we believe the Company’s business has become predicated on this core group of effectively full-time, unauthorized Dashers.

Meanwhile, DoorDash’s own public data implies that in Q4 2022, just 12% of Dashers were responsible for 50% of deliveries.

In May 2025, DoorDash was sued by a former Security Engineer, who alleges that he was fired after finding “hundreds of [Dasher] identities tied to shared residential addresses” that were “linked to a broad spectrum of criminal activity including identity theft, financial fraud, robbery, and tax evasion.”

In sum, we believe DoorDash has been uniquely able to tap into a completely new labor market – millions of individuals arriving in America who are desperate to work, unable to qualify for employment, and will work for less than minimum wage. Only by exploiting this labor pool is DoorDash able to operate profitably.

These are some pretty serious allegations, and if not true, Culper would be making itself liable for defamation. But its research paper is thorough, detailed, and rigorously footnoted as to the data it uses to make its opinions.

Door Dash stock has dropped about 30% since this report came out a month ago.

I have never used Uber Eats, Door Dash, Grub Hub, or any similar businesses, so I have no experiences to relate. I also do not know whether illegal subcontracted labor is foundational to their business model, or if it’s simply a predictable consequence of a vast network of “independent contractors” finding it profitable to franchise their Contractor Agreements to an illegal workforce.

What I do know is that when millions of illegal foreign nationals who may not legally work in this country are dumped into American cities, a black market for their labor will naturally develop. Whether it’s intentional or not, it is disgraceful that illegal, black-market labor is the retail face of publicly traded companies in the year 2025.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 1st!

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

2 st

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (DRSnL)

3 Another reason to buy and prepare your own food.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (NwnyJ)

4 Otter status: Culled.

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

5 Damn you, Bulg! Although it IS your birthday...

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (DRSnL)

6 If you are having restaurant food “dashed” to your residence, there is a very good chance that

Some broad is going to film you.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (QtIaX)

7 Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (/HDjX)

8 Bold strategy, Cotton.

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

9 Same thing in the UK with something called Deliveroo. "Migrants" right off the boat immediately get a job delivering.

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (YwEeS)

10 Uh buck, are you always this bold?

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (PCK5/)

11 If I'm home, I'm cooking my own food. I don't understand having another layer of food touches added to everything. Get your own food.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:03 AM (uQzkA)

12 What we need now is ALL CAPS!

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:03 AM (PCK5/)

13 Buck to the Barrel?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (opCUg)

14 I like that term "moral outsourcing".

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (iDFVA)

15 Contracting away your services thus your responsibility for SS taxes, insurance, help lines, etc is why the service industry sucks today.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (KDPiq)

16 I really do hate all these services

they're ruining us and our country in myriad ways

cities devoid of people walking around

restaurants not giving the best service to in-house customers to keep up with delivery orders

grocery stores filled with large carts and staff filling orders

everything is made worse.

the business model only works with slave labor, and even then it just sucks money out of younger people who don't really have money to burn

go freaking get your food!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (emBoF)

17 The people who can afford it least are the people doing the most food orders. Maybe save that money.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (uQzkA)

18 Around here, any restaurant you go into, you see the dashers come in and grab whatever.

They come in two varieties: Young guys and gals who seem like they can't wait to get back home to smoke some weed, or older guys who look like they got out of prison recently.

Always white.

America's best and brightest.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (lH8E4)

19 Damn you, Bulg! Although it IS your birthday...
Posted by: Jordan61

I denounce myself. I will check my birthday privilege.

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

20 Does Door Dash take EBT?

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (PCK5/)

21 If I'm home, I'm cooking my own food. I don't understand having another layer of food touches added to everything. Get your own food.
Posted by: NCKate

Yeah Damnit!! I'm with you Sister.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (cYBz/)

22 "It’s exploitation wrapped in virtue."

I'd like to order one exploitation burrito with extra virtue, please. Yes, I want it by 11PM. K, thx!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (k9OZB)

23 Even Chinese restaurants and Pizza lo it’s are now using these services. They used to be the model for in house delivery.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (KDPiq)

24 trying to help a city in my state with increasing foot traffic. it has many, many affluent residents.

they never leave their condos.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (emBoF)

25 23 Even Chinese restaurants and Pizza lo it’s are now using these services. They used to be the model for in house delivery.

yep

it's a cancer

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (emBoF)

26 go freaking get your food!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (emBoF)

And see people? In public??

Are you insane?????

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (lH8E4)

27 I really dislike doordash.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (bss/y)

28 17 The people who can afford it least are the people doing the most food orders. Maybe save that money.

exactly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (emBoF)

29 And remind me just how did the "food delivery" industry get it's giant influx of cash? Oh yeah, a secret intentionally bioengineered virus.

🤔

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (zcxpP)

30 But how can I go on if my burrito costs more than ten dollars?

Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (99eI0)

31 Pay a lot extra for cold food.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (bss/y)

32 Well, it sounds bad when you put it like that.

KAROLINE LEAVITT responds to President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Zohran Mamdani tomorrow

“It speaks volumes that tomorrow, we have a COMMUNIST coming to the White House — because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

33 Bold!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (0sNs1)

34 ok guys gotta start cooking

have a great weekend!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (emBoF)

35 If you watch Kill Tony, about half the "comedians" he interviews, when he asks them what they do when they're not doing bad standup, they're food deliverers.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (lH8E4)

36 Back in the day all the bike messengers in NYC were Africans pretty much. They are just delivering different things now.

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (YwEeS)

37 By the time your shake, burger and fries are dropped on your porch, the shake is melted and your fries are cold as cardboard.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (uQzkA)

38 The Left: Dramatically increase the pain and cost of hiring people through legitimate means, then swamp the country with a way to do it "cheap".

Almost Satanic in its elegance.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:09 AM (zcxpP)

39 There is the matter of cities being dangerous after dark but I guess urbanites just figure that into the price of living in the privileges of city life. Thai food at 3 am and all that.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:09 AM (PCK5/)

40 go freaking get your food!
Posted by: BlackOrchid

I have to. I live too far outside of town. No one delivers out here.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:10 AM (QtIaX)

41 We have a lot of illegal foreign labor driving down wages.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 11:10 AM (N1tpc)

42 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

43 I have never used any food delivery service either, but the next generation in my family uses these services for grocery delivery on a regular basis.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (1itZ7)

44 I have to admit that grocery delivery did make my life less stressful as I was able to have groceries delivered to my mom when she no longer was able to go to the store for any length of time . I lived almost an hour away at the time.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (KDPiq)

45 >>. . . while also shaming the smug consumers who believe they are the good guys for providing a living to off-the-books food dashers.

Well, why did we become so dependent on food delivery?
Anyone?

Covid "caused" this - or more accurately, as the populace was trained to do. Just as they broke the supply chain, then Biden used to broken supply chain to demand states give CDLs to illegals, and faster, faster, now!

They've been treating us like rats in a maze, then blaming us for modifying our behavior -- exactly as they nudge, nudge, nudged us into doing.

It's not our fault. The people who encouraged and transported these foreigner in, allowed them to use our tax money to establish their homes here, getting ID from their respective states despite admitting being illegal, etc..

*Note: Never done DoorDash, never will.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (GbwPZ)

46 I also do not know whether illegal subcontracted labor is foundational to their business model, or if it’s simply a predictable consequence of a vast network of “independent contractors” finding it profitable to franchise their Contractor Agreements to an illegal workforce.

This is part of the reason that the irs cracked down on independent contractors a few years back and now demands a 1099 for anything over $600 a year in off the books earning.

We have to attest to not paying anyone more than $600 a year when we file our irs 990. And we have to have our accountant issue 1099's to everyone we pay more than $600 a year including them and they report that to the irs.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (0N4FZ)

47 My coworkers are forever doing Door Dash and Instacart.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:12 AM (DRSnL)

48 >>I have never used any food delivery service either, but the next generation in my family uses these services for grocery delivery on a regular basis.

They were trained to do this.
Learned helplessness/laziness.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 11:12 AM (GbwPZ)

49
We're hip, cool people having food delivered to hip, cool people. So it's OK.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:13 AM (tgvbd)

50 And remind me just how did the "food delivery" industry get it's giant influx of cash? Oh yeah, a secret intentionally bioengineered virus.

🤔
Posted by: ...

My son did some freelance food delivery during COVID. He got a $30 tip once. No idea what percentage of the bill that was, but he was pretty impressed with it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

51 I do these side gigs occasionally. All of them...DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber and Lyft. Even Instacart if I feel like it. I'm a 29-ish white dude, I do it for the extra cash, and I actually enjoy it (most of the time, lol). I don't do it for a living, mostly as a hobby, so I can pick and choose my spots, avoiding those $4 McDonald's orders to the hood. I try to present myself in a professional manner, but I do notice that many of the other drivers, er, don't.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (Do64S)

52 I have to admit that grocery delivery did make my life less stressful as I was able to have groceries delivered to my mom when she no longer was able to go to the store for any length of time . I lived almost an hour away at the time.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (KDPiq)

Yes, it absolutely has its uses. When I would visit my mom I'd ask her what she wants to eat. She'd hem and haw, say how much trouble it was to go get something, and she sure wasn't going to leave the house.

Next thing you know it was there, and she was enjoying something she hadn't had in years.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (lH8E4)

53 I have never used Uber Eats, Door Dash, Grub Hub, or any similar businesses, so I have no experiences to relate. I also do not know whether illegal subcontracted labor is foundational to their business model, or if it’s simply a predictable consequence of a vast network of “independent contractors” finding it profitable to franchise their Contractor Agreements to an illegal workforce.

Wife uses it a lot.

It's rare a deliverer speaks English.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

54 Grocery stores used to deliver if old movies are any indication. The difference for all these delivery services today is they are not in-house.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)

55 I subscribe and get groceries delivered. Saves me some hassle and driving, etc. I would definitely miss it.

Plus I probably save by not being in the physical store most times because I have been known to impulse buy - especially when things are on "sale".

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (zcxpP)

56 They were trained to do this.
Learned helplessness/laziness.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 11:12 AM (GbwPZ)
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They order before they leave work and arrive home in time to put everything away. The convenience factor is big, no doubt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 11:16 AM (1itZ7)

57
Delivery services burgeoned so that Karens wouldn't have to leave their microbe-free bubbles.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:16 AM (tgvbd)

58 I do these side gigs occasionally. All of them...DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber and Lyft. Even Instacart if I feel like it. I'm a 29-ish white dude, I do it for the extra cash, and I actually enjoy it (most of the time, lol). I don't do it for a living, mostly as a hobby, so I can pick and choose my spots, avoiding those $4 McDonald's orders to the hood. I try to present myself in a professional manner, but I do notice that many of the other drivers, er, don't.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (Do64S)

I appreciate it when a driver calls or texts, saying the restaurant is taking longer than usual, or they're out of something, and do I want a substitute.

Like everything else, that will get you a bigger tip.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (lH8E4)

59 Not just food delivery. Regular Uber (like for people) is almost all illegals using fake documents. Uber knows this of course but they look the other way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (/AUU2)

60 Kudos to Sponge for allowing Bulg to be firstest on his big day!

Posted by: 60 Is The New 80 at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)

61 I subscribe and get groceries delivered. Saves me some hassle and driving, etc. I would definitely miss it.

Plus I probably save by not being in the physical store most times because I have been known to impulse buy - especially when things are on "sale".
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (zcxpP)

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I don't want randos picking out my produce for me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)

62 I'm just city averse. They are useful at times, but best kept at arms length, viewed from a distance.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (PCK5/)

63 I don't want randos picking out my produce for me.
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100!

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (vI2Ww)

64 Yuuutes: we have an affordability crisis!!!

Also Yuutes: oooh burrito delivery for $17. Yummy!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (/AUU2)

65 @35

>>If you watch Kill Tony, about half the "comedians" he interviews, when he asks them what they do when they're not doing bad standup, they're food deliverers.

Well, the comic lifestyle basically demands that you are up very late performing or writing your material and sleeping form around 3am to 10am, this does not lend itself to having a normal job, so food delivery is what will fit as a side hustle to make some scratch to get by.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (XV/Pl)

66 54 Grocery stores used to deliver if old movies are any indication. The difference for all these delivery services today is they are not in-house.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)

We used to have small neighborhood grocery stores every few blocks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)

67
Grocery stores used to deliver if old movies are any indication.

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See also: shabbos goy

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (tgvbd)

68 I personally won’t use these delivery services unless I couldn’t physically leave the house . But I’m not a good example because I’m still a brick and mortar guy who rarely orders stuff on the internet if it’s available at a local store.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (KDPiq)

69 lol

This, too, is the story of Obama.

Fake business (political) model propped up by virtue signalling hipster douchebags who have no understanding of the realities or potential impact of that which they support.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (dK+Kv)

70 I don't subscribe to the whole food delivery concept, generally speaking. Not even pizza, which used to be a delivery staple. But not anymore.

I've no idea where the delivery person's hands have been and thus, certainly don't want them anywhere near my food. The exploitation stuff is not surprising. Neither is the moral outsourcing from customers. Whom I think generally are assholes anyway.

Stories like this just reinforce all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (NwnyJ)

71 I don't want randos picking out my produce for me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)

It's honestly fine for the most part. Had trouble times with perhaps a limp carrot but I guess I'm getting to that age.

I do insist on getting my own beef, that I won't compromise on. Then I cook or freeze it.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (zcxpP)

72 ‘ Venezuelan “migrant” Mayco Milano operated.’

Has someone already suggested that send him on a delivery in Caracas?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (jbnUc)

73 Not every “Jessica” reliably pays their subs, however, and the subs obviously have no recourse when Jessica pockets their earnings.

Sucks to be you.

Get Legal or GTFO

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (JkCto)

74 Grocery stores used to deliver if old movies are any indication. The difference for all these delivery services today is they are not in-house.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)

Back in the old days, when the drunk druggist fills the wrong prescription, and the delivery boy fails to deliver it, so the drunk druggist boxes the ear of the kid to ruin his hearing in one ear, it results in the delivery boy's brother winning the Medal of Honor, and the town getting together to pay the delivery boy's debt when his savings and loan almost goes under because his senile old uncle forgets to make the deposit.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (lH8E4)

75 " Limp carrot".

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (PCK5/)

76 Thanks Buck for posting this. Not a feel-good EV inferno story, but Wow! are we sliding into the Abyss!

Posted by: Eating Thai at 2 AM at November 21, 2025 11:21 AM (oftw2)

77 appreciate it when a driver calls or texts, saying the restaurant is taking longer than usual, or they're out of something, and do I want a substitute.

Like everything else, that will get you a bigger tip.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (lH8E4)

You tip ahead of time though. At least on Uber eats. Which I understand the need for. Drivers won’t accept a delivery if there’s no guaranteed tip. But then there’s no incentive for the driver because the tip is already paid.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:21 AM (/AUU2)

78 Drone food delivery.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (PCK5/)

79 Had trouble times with perhaps a limp carrot but I guess I'm getting to that age.

I know a doctor.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (QtIaX)

80 I just don't get the "dashed" thing. Fast food has a shelf life of 10 minutes, maybe 15 tops.

Posted by: pookysgirl, watching Tchaikowsky with Lil Pooky at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (Wt5PA)

81 If you are having restaurant food “dashed” to your residence, there is a very good chance that

Some broad is going to film you.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (QtIaX)

And that the food arrives cold, or less than suitably hot for eating, and needs a zap in the microwave, making it less good than fresh-off-the-grill food.

I have never used any of these services, but any time I go to the city, I find fast food joints crawling with "couriers". I have no doubt the same sort of racket is happening here. Mostly cars, not mopeds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (npFr7)

82 Drone food delivery.
Posted by: tubal

Skeet with prizes.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (QtIaX)

83 As with Buck, I have never used these services either. From what I have seen, the customer base is primarily chubby GenZ socialists.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (2ap+5)

84 I've no idea where the delivery person's hands have been and thus, certainly don't want them anywhere near my food.
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There's a potluck at work today. Which means all the people I see leaving the bathroom without washing up have brought home cooking.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (vI2Ww)

85 don't subscribe to the whole food delivery concept, generally speaking. Not even pizza, which used to be a delivery staple. But not anymore.

I've no idea where the delivery person's hands have been and thus, certainly don't want them anywhere near my food.

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Do you never eat out either? Because the same people are in the kitchen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (/AUU2)

86 The government has rules:

>DoorDash
Policy
DoorDash Statement on the Department of Labor’s Final Worker Classification Rule
DoorDash is confident that Dashers are properly classified as independent contractors under the FLSA, and we do not anticipate this rule causing changes to our business.
Jan 9, 2024

>Uber Newsroom, US | Jan 9, 2024
Our Statement on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Worker Classification Rule
Written by CR Wooters, Head of Federal Affairs
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Note: There is the US Department of the Labor BUT individual states often have Labor Departments that govern "employer-employee relationships." In those instances, they can't have less restrictive rules than those of the federal government.

>The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule on January 10, 2024, to clarify worker classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which took effect on March 11, 2024.

> BUT, As of May 2025, the DOL is no longer enforcing the 2024 rule due to ongoing litigation and may issue a new rule. Current enforcement guidance: Employers should now follow the guidance provided in DOL's Fact Sheet #13 and the 2019 Opinion Letter for audits and enforcement actions.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (NFX2v)

87
I've used Uber exactly twice, when Her Majesty was out of town and my car needed work. Never had a food delivery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (tgvbd)

88 Big Tech. No consequences for this. Whatever else Trump is doing WRT immigration, legal or otherwise, he'll maintain a light touch with Silicon Valley. He has a tenuous detente with Big Tech, and he's not going to start blowing up their lucrative scams.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (BI5O2)

89 Two years ago, the New York Times published a highly sympathetic article about this industry, focusing on the awful plight of illegal immigrants dumped in Ney York City...

I see the problem. And the simple solution. They are illegal. And illegally dumped in New York City.

Simple solution: deport every last one of them.

"Awful plight" solved.

I don't give a shit about any illegal aliens. Deport every single one of their asses back to their home countries and they can get to work fixing their own countries instead of fucking up ours.

In addition, there should be a moratorium on ALL immigration for at least 10-15 years while we clean up the utter mess illegals have made of this country over the past few decades.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (P5BPp)

90 Local Pizza Hut has been here for at least 20 years, we get their pizza every once in awhie. They had their own drivers but maybe a year ago they switched to DoorDash. Don't know if their drivers are now DoorDash or not.

Posted by: Lirio100 at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (ky7/T)

91 Going out for a meal used to be a date type thing couples did. Now that nobody dates or gets off the couch I guess food delivery it is.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (uQzkA)

92 Back in the old days, when the drunk druggist fills the wrong prescription, and the delivery boy fails to deliver it, so the drunk druggist boxes the ear of the kid to ruin his hearing in one ear, it results in the delivery boy's brother winning the Medal of Honor, and the town getting together to pay the delivery boy's debt when his savings and loan almost goes under because his senile old uncle forgets to make the deposit.
Posted by: BurtTC

You could write a screenplay and turn that into a movie, Mr. Potter.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:24 AM (QtIaX)

93 The people who can afford it least are the people doing the most food orders. Maybe save that money.
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (uQzkA)

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This is the truth. I once was pretty slammed at work and wasn't going to be able to leave to get something, so I looked up how much it would be to get a sandwich and soda from Panera Bread. It was going to be like $35. I ate the can of soup I keep in my drawer instead.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)

94 because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Leftists - Studiously ignorant since the late 1700's.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (cYBz/)

95 18
‘ Around here, any restaurant you go into, you see the dashers come in and grab whatever.

They come in two varieties: Young guys and gals who seem like they can't wait to get back home to smoke some weed, or older guys …

Always white.’

My conclusion from this?
You live in a white neighborhood.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (jbnUc)

96 H1B Visas illegally do this too... it;s part of the reason why Uber Eats is referred to as UberJeets.

Posted by: Naqamel at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (MPmJg)

97 I used to do to go pick ups myself from restaurants.

I guess I was my own door dash driver.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (KDPiq)

98
Deport every single one of their asses back to their home countries and they can get to work fixing their own countries instead of fucking up ours.

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Or come into this country legally. And the "legally" ought to be changed so they're not a burden on the public purse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (tgvbd)

99 I don't want randos picking out my produce for me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)
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Hey Jordan!

Living in a small town with less than 4,000 people, delivery services is a non-issue, but even if it were available, I'd be leery of some deliveryperson touching (or worse) my food.

We have an IGA, not big at all, but it has good produce and meats, and I know the butcher and the produce guy, so that helps a lot.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)

100 A lot of new fast food locations don’t even have a dining area. It’s basically there to serve did delivery apps only. Which makes sense why have all that real estate sitting empty and paying property tax for?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (/AUU2)

101 They got rid of 24 hour grocery stores and gave us fucking delivery.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

102 We don't use food delivery services, so I have no anecdotes to share, but I'm not the least bit surprised by this.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (N1tpc)

103 Well, the comic lifestyle basically demands that you are up very late performing or writing your material and sleeping form around 3am to 10am, this does not lend itself to having a normal job, so food delivery is what will fit as a side hustle to make some scratch to get by.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (XV/Pl)

Sure, but most of the "comics" who are door dashing, when they're not doing open mike they're smoking weed with their friends, who are laughing their arses off to "jokes" about how black dudes like big butts, and Mexicans eat tacos while waiting to be picked up at Home Depot to do roofing jobs.

If you like watching Tony roast these guys like I do, it's comedy heaven.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (lH8E4)

104 ...It was going to be like $35. I ate the can of soup I keep in my drawer instead.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)

Yep. For $35 I better get a steak.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (JCLJi)

105 I have to drive up to georgetown every time I want to hit the grocery on the way home from work- because it is the only one in miles that stays open to the late, late hour of 1200AM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (bss/y)

106 You tip ahead of time though. At least on Uber eats. Which I understand the need for. Drivers won’t accept a delivery if there’s no guaranteed tip. But then there’s no incentive for the driver because the tip is already paid.

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Uber Eats, at least, gives the customer the option to change or remove the tip entirely. Which leads to customers putting large tips as an incentive, then pulling it after delivery.

I'm not one of those who begs for tips. But I do try to earn it.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (Do64S)

107 By the way, Tony West, Kamala Harris' brother-in-law, is still the Chief Legal Officer at Uber.

He has been in that role since late 2017 and was praised for his work there, though he also took time off to advise on his sister-in-law's campaign.

He's a good friend of the former President, Barack Obama & is involved with The Obama Foundation.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (NFX2v)

108 If you really wanted to end illegal immigration, it's businesses you need to go after. But nobody really wants to do that.

Just make every business that runs a payroll verify SS#'s and half the problem would be eliminated.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (eIzlH)

109 Just a quick question:

If you go in to pick up your food, do you tip?
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (IifOV)

110 99 I don't want randos picking out my produce for me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)
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Hey Jordan!

Living in a small town with less than 4,000 people, delivery services is a non-issue, but even if it were available, I'd be leery of some deliveryperson touching (or worse) my food.

We have an IGA, not big at all, but it has good produce and meats, and I know the butcher and the produce guy, so that helps a lot.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)

Yeah, small town guy here, also. Know the cashiers personally, know the waiters and waitresses in the restaurants I go to. It's a good life.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (PCK5/)

111 My conclusion from this?
You live in a white neighborhood.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (jbnUc)

Your skills of deduction are marvelous.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (lH8E4)

112 It blows my mind how some people pretty much live on DoorDash or uber eats. I use it occasionally but it’s expensive. Whatever the meal costs, it’s usually double after the delivery fees and tip.

A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.

Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (/AUU2)

113 > don't subscribe to the whole food delivery concept, generally speaking. Not even pizza, which used to be a delivery staple. But not anymore.

I've no idea where the delivery person's hands have been and thus, certainly don't want them anywhere near my food.

—

Do you never eat out either? Because the same people are in the kitchen.
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I've eaten out once in about 10 years. Both my wife and I can cook/prepare anything we'd like to have. Or watch a video or whatever to learn it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (NwnyJ)

114 Interesting. So a footnote on the mopeds. Alexandria at one point required smaller mopeds (

An "unexpected" consequence of this in Alexandria was that drivers whose licenses had been suspended for DUI, were suddenly on mopeds. Lesson that I took to heart was "beware of mopeds on the streets at 0200 in the morning."

Also the introduction of e-bikes which generally don't even require licensing or plates, adds to the options, especially in big cities.

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (e/Osv)

115 "while also advising that Culper was taking a short position in Door Dash stock (meaning they expect the stock price to drop)"

There you have it. These articles -- both pro and con -- are little more than stock manipulation schemes. Everything is fake and gay. Everything.

Personally, I rarely use these food delivery services, as I find them overpriced and I'd rather just cook my own. When I do use them (such as last night because I had a date) I use seamless and I don't give a shit who delivers the food.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

116 We have an IGA, not big at all, but it has good produce and meats, and I know the butcher and the produce guy, so that helps a lot.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)

Yeah, small town guy here, also. Know the cashiers personally, know the waiters and waitresses in the restaurants I go to. It's a good life.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (PCK5/)

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That sounds nice.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (DRSnL)

117 At least they don't urinate and spit on your food out of resentment before delivering it, right?

/Don't go there ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (+mTgD)

118 I'm just city averse. They are useful at times, but best kept at arms length, viewed from a distance.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (PCK5/)

Cities these days are like Third-world countries. Fun to visit if you have cash in pocket, but you don't want to live there and try to make a living.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (npFr7)

119 So huckabee met with JONATHAN POLLARD without wh knowledge, good to know.

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (s3ADg)

120 He's a good friend of the former President, Barack Obama & is involved with The Obama Foundation.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (NFX2v)

Huh. Isn't that odd?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (bss/y)

121 Yeah, small town guy here, also. Know the cashiers personally, know the waiters and waitresses in the restaurants I go to. It's a good life.
Posted by: tubal
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Yes it is.

As everything in life, however, there are tradeoffs.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (22p5n)

122 109 Just a quick question:

If you go in to pick up your food, do you tip?
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (IifOV)

I usually did if they did something over and beyond what I expected ( throwing in extras, etc.) but it was just a buck or two.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (KDPiq)

123 I have never had food delivered to my house. I'd rather go out to eat .I thinks it's terrible that Door Dash, etc takes advantage of these people. Covid just amped up the need to have groceries delivered to one's house because some people were so scared. I still see signs around the bigger neighborhood.: "Put any deliveries in box. Do not come to house!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (Yl2Ob)

124 The produced you grab at the store has already probably been touched by somebody, even if it's just the person before you that didn't like the way your kumquat looked.

I wash all my veg, it's not a big deal.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (zcxpP)

125 I've eaten out once in about 10 years. Both my wife and I can cook/prepare anything we'd like to have. Or watch a video or whatever to learn it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (NwnyJ)

I'm not ashamed to admit that I learned to cook from Alton Brown.

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (e/Osv)

126 Uber Eats, at least, gives the customer the option to change or remove the tip entirely. Which leads to customers putting large tips as an incentive, then pulling it after delivery.

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Which is the shittiest thing imaginable. My hope is drivers remember those addresses and the next time real bad things happen to the food. 😁

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (/AUU2)

127 Yeah, small town guy here, also. Know the cashiers personally, know the waiters and waitresses in the restaurants I go to. It's a good life.
Posted by: tub

It is the same for the big city, maybe more so.

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (s3ADg)

128 Kudos to Sponge for allowing Bulg to be firstest on his big day!
Posted by: 60 Is The New 80 at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)

Heh. I'm a giver.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

129 Somewhat topic-adjacent, I have never forgotten the mouthy asshole Doordash CEO publicly virtue-signaling that his company didn't want the business of those icky MAGA types.

I have endeavored ever since to fulfill his wish by never ever considering using Doordash when I had a lunch delivered to my office.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (8ty7h)

130 t blows my mind how some people pretty much live on DoorDash or uber eats. I use it occasionally but it’s expensive. Whatever the meal costs, it’s usually double after the delivery fees and tip.

A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.

Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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It's honestly disgusting to me the people that make it part of their routine. We have have generations of people with zero homemaking skills. So they complain how expensive "food" is when the "food" in question is being delivered to them from a restaurant and a meal for a single person is like $30.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (eIzlH)

131 I don't give a shit about any illegal aliens. Deport every single one of their asses back to their home countries and they can get to work fixing their own countries instead of fucking up ours.

But where am I going to get a real street taco?! You monster!

Then again, I hear about all the benefits illegals bring to this nation. They should share with their country instead.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (99eI0)

132 it's funny, we were just talking about the food delivery services here.

I go through spurts of using these services. Lately, I use the 'Pick-up" option if it is a local place. You pay ahead, and go pick up. Save money on driver tip, avoid GPS fvk-ups, (which DoorDash seems to excel in).

and now Instacart, the supermarket delivery service, also does the restaurant delivery. They gave me so many credits and incentives to use the food delivery, I couldn't resist

Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (dCxaZ)

133 There's a potluck at work today. Which means all the people I see leaving the bathroom without washing up have brought home cooking.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Poppy is sloppy!

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (oftw2)

134 I wash all my veg, it's not a big deal.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (zcxpP)

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I don't care about people touching my stuff. I just don't think they would be as discerning as I am.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (DRSnL)

135 I'm just city averse. They are useful at times, but best kept at arms length, viewed from a distance.
Posted by: tubal
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Hub usually works in St Louis, and he has stories, heh.

Only time I venture there is if I have a VA appointment, or some special occasion (grandkid's birthday party).

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (22p5n)

136 You tip ahead of time though. At least on Uber eats. Which I understand the need for. Drivers won’t accept a delivery if there’s no guaranteed tip. But then there’s no incentive for the driver because the tip is already paid.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:21 AM (/AUU2)

Doordash allows you to adjust the tip while the process is still in the works.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (lH8E4)

137 @103

>>If you like watching Tony roast these guys like I do, it's comedy heaven.

The entire Roganverse is pretty ascendant right now, there is some push back, but it's pretty pathetic.

Kill Tony may be the best thing to happen to comedy in a while.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (XV/Pl)

138 Grocery stores used to deliver if old movies are any indication. The difference for all these delivery services today is they are not in-house.
Posted by: the way I see it

Pre1970's
Yep. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and a few others. Most restaurants did not. Only places that offered "take out" delivered.
Since then, more places stopped delivering including take out food. Eventually it was mostly pizza places that delivered. There were probably exceptions.
Now... Perfectly able bodied people, pay someone an extra fee, to go pick stuff up from the grocery store and deliver it to the able bodied people.

Why? I can see why someone with a disability would need that. I can see why someone would do this for an aging parent or even for a spouse who is ill. But healthy, able bodied people? "but, it's so convenient" they whine. So? I'm sitting INSIDE the fucking restaurant, waiting thirty minutes for the meal we ordered while a constant stream of packaged food is being shoved out the door with the delivery people.
Why the fuck should I be inconvenienced for your goddam convenience? Get off your lazy ass and take a shower, get dressed, and go to the fucking restaurant.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (2J/Lj)

139 Login access to an Uber Eats account is rented for $150 per week from “Jessica.”

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Wow, had no idea you had to pay for the "privilege" of "renting an online account" to deliver food. Jeebus.

I figured they just took a cut of each delivery ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (+mTgD)

140
Living in a small town with less than 4,000 people, delivery services is a non-issue, but even if it were available, I'd be leery of some deliveryperson touching (or worse) my food.

We have an IGA, not big at all, but it has good produce and meats, and I know the butcher and the produce guy, so that helps a lot.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)

This is real living, SMH. This is what the Manhattan yuppie share-cropper masters disdain, and what they want to eliminate. They want to force us in 15 minute Judge Dredd high rises. No thanks. I'll emulate SMH's lifestyle any day of the week. It's real!

Posted by: moki at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (wLjpr)

141 121 Yeah, small town guy here, also. Know the cashiers personally, know the waiters and waitresses in the restaurants I go to. It's a good life.
Posted by: tubal
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Yes it is.

As everything in life, however, there are tradeoffs.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (22p5n)

Oh yeah for sure. But community is great and what I can't get locally I'll travel to. Like Sam's Club, a havit I just can't break.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (PCK5/)

142 It blows my mind how some people pretty much live on DoorDash or uber eats. I use it occasionally but it’s expensive. Whatever the meal costs, it’s usually double after the delivery fees and tip.

A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.

Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (/AUU2)
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This. The amount of money the younger gens spend on food and related products is insane. And not just cheap food like ramen like I used to eat as a poor college student. Like expensive, gourmet food.

A new expensive gourmet market just opened in NYC to great fanfare. The line out the door was nothing but 20-somethings. I wouldn't shop there because I refuse to pay inflated prices for food I can get much cheaper elsewhere.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

143 Big Tech. No consequences for this. Whatever else Trump is doing WRT immigration, legal or otherwise, he'll maintain a light touch with Silicon Valley. He has a tenuous detente with Big Tech, and he's not going to start blowing up their lucrative scams.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (BI5O2)[/i.]

I wasn't able to post yesterday (and shouldn't today), but I saw a comment on the Cheney funeral thread that wondered if the Bush-RINO cabal were planning a return to power once Trump is gone. Sadly, I think it's very likely. Too many Americans are so comfortable with slave labor that they will fight tooth and nail to keep it. Once Trump is gone, do you think any succeeding GOP nickelfucker will have the stones to keep throwing the illegals out? I don't.

And that's not even touching all the things Trump should blow up, but won't, as YD touches on above.

**shrugs** Anyway, just a random thought from an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)

144 124 The produced you grab at the store has already probably been touched by somebody, even if it's just the person before you that didn't like the way your kumquat looked.

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Plus the person who stocked it at the grocery store. The illegal who picked it at the farm and packed it on the truck.

If you’re gonna Be afraid of someone touching your food you better start your own farm.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (/AUU2)

145 Good one, Buck.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (RuTUS)

146 just wait until all these "illegals" in NY start poisoning the customers. Great way to thin the enemy herd....

Posted by: Esperman at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (8MPpG)

147 If you go in to pick up your food, do you tip?
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Frank Barone

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For me, it depends. I dont do take out that often, if it's a real restaurant, I'll usually throw a couple bucks.

I do agree that there really should be zero tip for picking up food, but this is our culture.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (eIzlH)

148 If you’re gonna Be afraid of someone touching your food you better start your own farm.
Posted by: Its

yeah, its a bit different before cooking and after cooking.

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (s3ADg)

149 The Uber/Ubereats drivers get a small fraction of what the company charges.

The only way to really make money on Uber/Uber Eats is volume.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (XV/Pl)

150 these door to door services also deliver any kind of retail

are you housebound due to illness? Order your aspirin and Kleenex from DoorDash or the others.

Is your car in the shop, and you can't get out to Target to get the gift for the party tomorrow? Delivery service to the rescue!

as you may have noticed, I have embraced these services. I may even sign up as a Dasher. I figure I have a daily commute, may as well make a couple bucks on my way home from work.

Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (dCxaZ)

151 One of the local grocers delivers, but I suspect any fresh produce would be the wilted, sad looking items that no one would select themselves.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (2ap+5)

152 Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight! Before "to go" containers they stapled paper plates together.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (8URtM)

153 oh, for fuck's sake.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

154 A new expensive gourmet market just opened in NYC to great fanfare. The line out the door was nothing but 20-somethings. I wouldn't shop there because I refuse to pay inflated prices for food I can get much cheaper elsewhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

When I was at Costco recently it dawned on me that there are very few young people here. But at Whole Foods? Practically nobody over 30.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (/AUU2)

155 If you’re gonna Be afraid of someone touching your food you better start your own farm.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (/AUU2

Also, do people even realize that farms are full of DIRT???

Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (8ty7h)

156 Uber Eats, at least, gives the customer the option to change or remove the tip entirely. Which leads to customers putting large tips as an incentive, then pulling it after delivery.

I'm guessing, there's the ability like there is with Uber drivers to blacklist or deny service to those that act shitty going forward.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

157 You can get a decent used moped for as little as $750. It's not as if a ruling class burgh will make a Mayan or Aztec slave pay for vehicle registration or get a license or anything.

Who would pay some chiseler $400/wk. to rent one for more than a few weeks instead of saving a few bucks to buy one? Mayco must be a total retard, or spinning a tall tale.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (BI5O2)

158 Which is the shittiest thing imaginable. My hope is drivers remember those addresses and the next time real bad things happen to the food. 😁
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (/AUU2)

I'm guessing it's like Ebay or other online services, where both customers and merchants can rate each other.

Although I've never bothered to rate Ebay sellers.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (lH8E4)

159 Having not ordered any food from any new age delivery service I feel safe. To me it is just cold, bad, expensive food when it finally gets to the door. I pay restaurant prices for the restaurant experience, not to have a packaged meal at home. Only food I have had delivered is pizza.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (xvV+O)

160 Hey moki!

It's quiet and low-stress, which fits me just fine.

The thought of being crammed in a place with 100s or thousands of "neighbors" living above and under me makes my skin crawl.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (22p5n)

161 Stay A Little Longer
Bob Wills
You ought to see my blue eyed Sally
She lives a way down on Shinbone Alley
The number on the gate, the number on the door
And the next house over is the grocery store
Stay all night, stay a little longer
Dance all night, dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don't see why you don't stay a little longer …

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (wZlsB)

162 just wait until all these "illegals" in NY start poisoning the customers. Great way to thin the enemy herd....
Posted by: Esp

they have been doing delivery in nyc since the 80s,

would you rather have some fat , black , single woman, with 5 inch nails, trying to supplement her ebt with door dash, or some guy trying to get a bunch of $ to go home and buy a house?

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (s3ADg)

163 On one of the social media threads here there's typically a couple posts a week about food delivery problems. Either from the driver or the customer. And it's going to be either a dispute over money or the food's cold.

Or both.

And the driver's are notorious for videoing every encounter. And posting that if they're unhappy with their tip or anything else related to the delivery.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (NwnyJ)

164 I’m assuming most people here shop Amazon /Internet more than they do at Brick and Mortar locations . Even though I don’t, I understand that because you aren’t paying almost double for the product.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (KDPiq)

165
This. The amount of money the younger gens spend on food and related products is insane. And not just cheap food like ramen like I used to eat as a poor college student. Like expensive, gourmet food.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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I'm late Gen X, absolutely nobody was a "foodie" when they were young in my era.

The entire concept of getting restaurant cuisine delivered to your door would just seem insanely decadent to a poor 20-something year old.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (eIzlH)

166 my buddy who lives 20 miles away from me was housebound due to flu. He lives alone, so I asked him if he wanted me to DoorDash him anything. He said no, I filled up the fridge before I got sick.

then I told him it wasn't just food, I could have flu supplies delivered to him. He wasn't aware of the array of product that can now be delivered door to door. Almost like a courier service

Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (dCxaZ)

167 If only Door Dash was around in the 30s, the two guys in the Art Thread Rooming House might each have their own mattress instead of having to share one.

Posted by: Tempur-pedic at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (oftw2)

168 would you rather have some fat , black , single woman, with 5 inch nails, trying to supplement her ebt with door dash, or some guy trying to get a bunch of $ to go home and buy a house?
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (s3ADg)

The American one, thank you very much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (BI5O2)

169 What we call the “gig economy” is, in practice, a debt-and-fear economy — one that goes unchallenged in hyper-progressive places like NYC precisely because liberals have redefined “compassion” as ignoring the law.

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Next you'll be telling me that they've redefined "assassination" as necessary, good, and heroic.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (+mTgD)

170 Has hq covered doordash girl, she got arrested

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (s3ADg)

171 I like the new Hank Hill episodes where Hank and Peggy used Uber and Hank told the driver after being dropped off ‘ I’m going to give you 4 stars out of 5 to give you something to strive for’

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (KDPiq)

172 even if it's just the person before you that didn't like the way your kumquat looked.

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And I don't show my kumquat to just anybody!!

I have standards. They're pretty low but they are there!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (cYBz/)

173 The entire Roganverse is pretty ascendant right now, there is some push back, but it's pretty pathetic.

Kill Tony may be the best thing to happen to comedy in a while.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (XV/Pl)

A decent percentage of the comics who come on do a good enough job that you can enjoy their sets, and the ones who don't... well, that's when Tony and his guests are at their best.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (lH8E4)

174 oh, for fuck's sake.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

I love it when you talk dirty... Especially when it's in italics!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (2J/Lj)

175 The entire concept of getting restaurant cuisine delivered to your door would just seem insanely decadent to a poor 20-something year old.

Box spaghetti and hot dogs got me through college and law school.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (8ty7h)

176 #159,

This. I really don't get the delivery thing. At all.

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (XuXeR)

177
A new expensive gourmet market just opened in NYC to great fanfare. The line out the door was nothing but 20-somethings. I wouldn't shop there because I refuse to pay inflated prices for food I can get much cheaper elsewhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

When I was at Costco recently it dawned on me that there are very few young people here. But at Whole Foods? Practically nobody over 30.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (/AUU2)
__________

Yup. Here's the link to that place. Takeaway quotes:

"I’d rather get a little bit better quality and a better taste and healthier feel and spend a couple extra dollars,” Brittany Blum, 24, chimed in.

Other Gen Z customers told The Post that food was currently the one thing on which they were willing to spare no expense.

“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.

Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.

https://tinyurl.com/464u4nd3

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

178 If you go in to pick up your food, do you tip?
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (IifOV)

It's a store. They even call themselves that. I don't tip cashiers at stores; they get an hourly wage. There's no culture of tipping at stores that I am aware of. Restaurants and other service industries are different.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (npFr7)

179 I met an old fart about my age at the dog park the other day. He told me about driving for Uber. I've forgotten the exact figures but he made about $3,500 /month Ubering.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

180 he American one, thank you very much.
Posted by: Y

not in nyc you wouldn't

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (s3ADg)

181 If you go in to pick up your food, do you tip?
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Fr

you get what you pay for

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (s3ADg)

182 Let me see if I have this right? You order a meal that the restaurant jacks up the price on then pay a deliverer and pay a tip on top of that?

I can cook a filet,, baked potato and have a salad for less than a meal at a fast food place.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (sDNVV)

183 >>You tip ahead of time though. At least on Uber eats.

Nothing prevents someone from checking the box for a designated tip then giving the driver an extra tip in cash upon delivery if you think it's warranted?

Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (Y1sOo)

184 I can cook a filet,, baked potato and have a salad for less than a meal at a fast food place.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Amen.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (22p5n)

185 If only Door Dash was around in the 30s, the two guys in the Art Thread Rooming House might each have their own mattress instead of having to share one.

If Edward Millman can't draw a foot, do you really think he could paint a moped?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (8ty7h)

186
Not just food delivery. Regular Uber (like for people) is almost all illegals using fake documents. Uber knows this of course but they look the other way.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (/AUU2)

The only time I ever use Uber is when my SUV is in the shop for repairs/service. And I NEVER use food delivery, unless I hire on temps at the shop for a day or so, I usually treat them to pizza delivery for lunch.

On the other hand, the rise of Uber and Lyft basically shoved a stick up unionized criminal Taxi services' asses. I rather like the idea of putting two Donk constituencies in urban Thunderdome.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (y9nCu)

187 153 oh, for fuck's sake.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

Ha! The Italicans have taken over comment #143.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (RuTUS)

188 Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.

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Median age for homebuyers, including first-time buyers, increases to jaw-dropping 59 years old

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

189 111
‘ Your skills of deduction are marvelous.’

I also deduced that the delivery boy you tip for texting you your order is ‘late’ is sitting on your order so he can text you for a big tip.

(BurtTC gushes”What a good boy you are! Here. Have this $20 tip!”

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

190 The thought of being crammed in a place with 100s or thousands of "neighbors" living above and under me makes my skin crawl.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (22p5n)

I did that at my first "real" job in Hong Kong. I've had a true phobia of crowds ever since then. Hugs to you, my friend and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Posted by: moki at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (wLjpr)

191 If compassion means preserving a shadow economy of fear, debt, and exhaustion, then it’s not compassion at all. It’s exploitation wrapped in virtue.

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[To tack-on to my previous comment:]

Similarly, for The Left, political violence and assassination have been wrapped in "virtue."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (+mTgD)

192 I've used Uber a fair bit but only on the company's dime. Mainly for to and fro the airport and conference hotel.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (0714D)

193 Nothing prevents someone from checking the box for a designated tip then giving the driver an extra tip in cash upon delivery if you think it's warranted?

yeah, many times I add a cash tip to the app tip, especially if I'm really hungry and the guy arrives quickly

Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)

194 We don't have food delivery here as we are so far out in the sticks. Except for Domino's - they opened a store recently and are doing a killer business. It's interesting - on a busy day, they keep 6-7 drivers very busy.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:42 AM (cYBz/)

195 Oldest daughter who lives in Texas drives for Lyft, in addition to her regular job as a stylist.

She told me she gets better tips from the soldiers around Ft Hood than fares in Austin.

That doesn't surprise me.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (22p5n)

196 159 Having not ordered any food from any new age delivery service I feel safe. To me it is just cold, bad, expensive food when it finally gets to the door. I pay restaurant prices for the restaurant experience, not to have a packaged meal at home. Only food I have had delivered is pizza.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (xvV+O)

Pizza delivery: the nose of the camel getting under the door.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (RuTUS)

197 A really "upscale" grocery store is the California chain Erewhon. I've seen a few videos--seems more like a set for "influencers."

Posted by: Lirio100 at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (ky7/T)

198 Let me see if I have this right? You order a meal that the restaurant jacks up the price on then pay a deliverer and pay a tip on top of that?

I can cook a filet,, baked potato and have a salad for less than a meal at a fast food place.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (sDNVV)
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No no no. The restaurant jacks up the price, the delivery service charges a fee, the app charges a fee, and you are shamed into tipping. Just for S&G I did a comparison between an Uno pizza if you walked in and ordered it, versus having seamless deliver it. The walk-in was $24. The delivery? $33 (or $35, I don't remember). 35-50% more.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

199 Having your food delivered can introduce more points of failure, I think.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (6qf1m)

200 200

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (RuTUS)

201 Box spaghetti and hot dogs got me through college and law school.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (8ty7h)

I used to go out once a week and usually get Chinese. Szechuan Shrimp!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (VxM7q)

202 I need delivery food because I've been banned for life from Kroger's for squeezing melons AND taking a leek in the Produce Section.

Posted by: Hands-On Harry at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (oftw2)

203 @173

>>A decent percentage of the comics who come on do a good enough job that you can enjoy their sets, and the ones who don't... well, that's when Tony and his guests are at their best.

Rogan and his verse are the closest we will ever get to Carson again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)

204 Used it a few times, but in the end I’d rather get my food fresh and pocket the delivery fee myself. Plus when you eat out infrequently, it is nice to go somewhere and enjoy the aesthetics.

Posted by: Corona_Exile at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (3wNhr)

205 It's slavery.
But the Democrats really care about their slaves.
Nothing has changed since 1863.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (HXT0k)

206 Box spaghetti and hot dogs got me through college and law school.
Posted by: Cicero

And now, the foodies will pay $9 for a lb of bucatini at Whole Paycheck.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (cYBz/)

207 This is all wrong!!! You dont understand. Because I am a democrat everything i do is virtuous. I am free from social sin because I vote the right way. I AM A MEMBER OF A SUPERIOR CLUB THAT CAN DO NO WRONG. Therefore i can do as i please.

Posted by: Typical NYC liberal, appalled at your provincal ignorance at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (b2UQ7)

208 Does anyone tip at a food truck? I don't and they act like I just kicked his dog. I don't revisit those trucks.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (0714D)

209 Box spaghetti and hot dogs got me through college and law school.

Posted by: Cic

wow, how big was that box?

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (s3ADg)

210 Thx Buck.
I'm sure the illegals doing DoorDash on mopeds are given extensive training on driving mopeds . Right?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (bfwj/)

211 Well, crap. I may need to start working for Door Dash or something similar. Just got word that my company is cutting back in January and I'm on the bubble.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (3nLb4)

212 I did that at my first "real" job in Hong Kong. I've had a true phobia of crowds ever since then. Hugs to you, my friend and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Posted by: moki
___

That would definitely give me one.

Friends at church poke fun at me due to my insistence of sitting in the back pews (I hate having people sit behind me).

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (22p5n)

213 I mean, the cheapest, quickest most nutritious bang for your buck, is a pack of micorwave rice, a can of tuna, some mayo, sircacha and if you want some veg, tear up some spinach, mix and you got a balanced meal for under 3 bucks in less than 5 minutes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)

214 I also deduced that the delivery boy you tip for texting you your order is ‘late’ is sitting on your order so he can text you for a big tip.

(BurtTC gushes”What a good boy you are! Here. Have this $20 tip!”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

When I'm working on practicing gratitude... and it DOES take practice, is knowing if my delivery guy is gaming the system to get a bigger tip out of me, it really has no adverse effect on my life.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (lH8E4)

215 And now, the foodies will pay $9 for a lb of bucatini at Whole Paycheck.
Posted by: Tony

even the good stuff is not more than $2 per pnd

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (s3ADg)

216 Box spaghetti and hot dogs got me through college and law school.
Posted by: Cicero

And now, the foodies will pay $9 for a lb of bucatini at Whole Paycheck.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (cYBz/)
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Fake news. They'll pay $15 for bucatini.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

217
Rogan and his verse are the closest we will ever get to Carson again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)

I don't put Rogan in anywhere near the same room as Carson mainly because Carson was NOTHING about opinion and ALL about entertainment and making people laugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

218 t blows my mind how some people pretty much live on DoorDash or uber eats. I use it occasionally but it’s expensive. Whatever the meal costs, it’s usually double after the delivery fees and tip.

A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.

Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Our neighbor gets burger king occasionally from uber eats and sometimes they leave it at my house by mistake. No way I am going to pay $18 for a whopper value meal when the place is less than a mile from our house and they have $4.99 whopper value meal specials five days out of the week.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (0N4FZ)

219 This isn't going to move the public at all. Remember during COVID when it was too dangerous for good people to go outside or grandma would die the solution was to pay poor people to go outside for you. I can't imagine they thought the poor carried their BLM immunity with them everywhere, so it was exploitation/sacrifice in intent if not fact.

Posted by: Ben Sears at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (WzTQR)

220 Laters y'all, got some errands to run.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (22p5n)

221 oh yeah bucatini is the worst noodle ever

Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (s3ADg)

222 Delivered food is automatically organic and gluten-free.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 21, 2025 11:48 AM (g8Ew8)

223 I need delivery food because I've been banned for life from Kroger's for squeezing melons AND taking a leek in the Produce Section.
Posted by: Hands-On Harry at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (oftw2)

My produce section doesn't sell leeks.

But I've been banned from strip clubs for squeezing melons.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:48 AM (lH8E4)

224 Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

there's usually deals and incentives, especially during off hours like 2-4 pm.

what I like though, in addition to the deals, is that I can dine international delicacies...I am not the one to roll sushi at home, nor am I going to assemble a poke bowl, since it's not very likely that I have the required ingredients in the pantry

Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:48 AM (dCxaZ)

225
comment
anecdote
pithy closing

Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:49 AM (AOsQT)

226 Wow.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:49 AM (WONhk)

227 comment
anecdote
pithy closing
Posted by: Don Black

Missed opportunity for a perfect Mike Tyson sock.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:49 AM (cYBz/)

228 Whatever happened to Groupons? Do people still do those?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (36PRH)

229 74 Back in the old days, when the drunk druggist fills the wrong prescription, and the delivery boy fails to deliver it, so the drunk druggist boxes the ear of the kid to ruin his hearing in one ear, it results in the delivery boy's brother winning the Medal of Honor, and the town getting together to pay the delivery boy's debt when his savings and loan almost goes under because his senile old uncle forgets to make the deposit.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (lH8E4)

AND THAT'S HOW WE WON THE WAR, DADGUMMIT!

Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (UnA8+)

230 I also agree that having food delivered/picked up from a restaurant on a regular basis just seems insanely stupid.

During the Covid era when I was more open to things like that, occassionally I would go to my favorite restaurant to get a meal for the family. By the time you get the food home (it's not hot) and spread out in your kitchen, it's like is this really worth nearly $100? Of course not.

But you'd be shocked how many people live like this now. With Klarna loan app for the people that can't really afford it but won't dare just make themselves a can of soup or noodles for their dinner.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (eIzlH)

231
Friends at church poke fun at me due to my insistence of sitting in the back pews (I hate having people sit behind me).

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (22p5n)

My dad was a back-row Baptist, and he passed that on to me. We sat in the front at a new church and felt exposed. Never again!!!

Posted by: moki at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (wLjpr)

232 I don't put Rogan in anywhere near the same room as Carson mainly because Carson was NOTHING about opinion and ALL about entertainment and making people laugh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Except that's really not true. I view Carson fondly, although I don't know if I ever watched his show when he was on.

What people say though, is that Carson could make or break a comic, and sometimes he was a cruel and unforgiving critic of comics who rubbed him the wrong way, sometimes for very arbitrary reasons.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (lH8E4)

233 So when do the obligatory "How To Speak To MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving" articles in leftwing bird-feeder rags come out?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

234 213 I mean, the cheapest, quickest most nutritious bang for your buck, is a pack of micorwave rice, a can of tuna, some mayo, sircacha and if you want some veg, tear up some spinach, mix and you got a balanced meal for under 3 bucks in less than 5 minutes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)

Carrot sticks and celery sticks for the veg!

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (RuTUS)

235 The food delivery stuff is still just weird.

Paying about the same cost as buying food from a restaurant to have it delivered?

Why not drive there and get it yourself and save $20?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)

236 Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (bfwj/)

That could be another rant if Buck agreed and felt inclined to write about . e bikes. Lots of people whom I'm guessing are illegals because you don't need a license for that. It's crazy the way they drive!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (ELdpA)

237 165
‘ The entire concept of getting restaurant cuisine delivered to your door would just seem insanely decadent to a poor 20-something year old.’

Same age. At the time I would have assumed having delivery would be a pain in the ass and stupid expensive.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (jbnUc)

238 I just can't see using doordash or something to bring me McDonalds. Doesn't it arrive cold and more expensive than dragging your ass to the drive-thru yourself?

Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)

239 218

Our neighbor gets burger king occasionally from uber eats and sometimes they leave it at my house by mistake. No way I am going to pay $18 for a whopper value meal when the place is less than a mile from our house and they have $4.99 whopper value meal specials five days out of the week.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (0N4FZ)
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Does this neighbor use a mobility scooter?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (36PRH)

240 I've been saying when I see the illegal vespa door dash gangs are gone, I will know Trump is serious about deportations.

Posted by: mossomo at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (pky95)

241 219 This isn't going to move the public at all. Remember during COVID when it was too dangerous for good people to go outside or grandma would die the solution was to pay poor people to go outside for you. I can't imagine they thought the poor carried their BLM immunity with them everywhere, so it was exploitation/sacrifice in intent if not fact.
Posted by: Ben Sears at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (WzTQR)

This bears repeating.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (RuTUS)

242 Why not drive there and get it yourself and save $20?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)

Because restaurants make you wear pants.

Duh.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (BRtdF)

243 I just can't see using doordash or something to bring me McDonalds. Doesn't it arrive cold and more expensive than dragging your ass to the drive-thru yourself?
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)

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Yes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (DRSnL)

244 The thought of being crammed in a place with 100s or thousands of "neighbors" living above and under me makes my skin crawl.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (22p5n)

I have always believed that Hell is crammed full of apartment complexes and townhouses and those little houses on a postage stamp sized lot with the neighbors house three feet from your bathroom window.
We own about 30 acres and for most of the time we've lived here our closest neighbor was 200 yards out. We gave our son an acre of ground for a wedding gift. Now he and his wife and my delightful ginger grandson are about 50-60 yards away. We share our driveway with them. They've been here for a few months now and I'm still getting used to the UPS and FedEx trucks coming and going almost every day. They order a lot of stuff that is needed but not urgent.

Oh look! FedEx is here again!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (2J/Lj)

245 For as bad as we want to say California is, they started the trend of trying to destroy the "Gig Economy". While the supporters of slavery pointed to Creatives who worked as contractors, the real targets of the California legislation are the slaves of Door Dash.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (xE0sV)

246 I don't care about people touching my stuff. I just don't think they would be as discerning as I am.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (DRSnL)

I knew what *you* meant.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (zcxpP)

247
What people say though, is that Carson could make or break a comic, and sometimes he was a cruel and unforgiving critic of comics who rubbed him the wrong way, sometimes for very arbitrary reasons.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (lH8E4)

Again, he was all about entertainment. If he felt someone wasn't high enough quality entertainment, he pushed them aside. That was his role at that point.

His show wasn't opinion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

248 I have never used any food delivery service either, but the next generation in my family uses these services for grocery delivery on a regular basis.

They were trained to do this.
Learned helplessness/laziness.
Posted by: Lizzy

Food deliveries used to be the normal mode of operation before everyone had a car.

Get your milk and eggs and beef and veg delivered to your door.

The exploitation of illegal aliens is the only modern aspect of it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (a+4eV)

249 Hence all that limp carrot talk

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (zcxpP)

250 238 I just can't see using doordash or something to bring me McDonalds. Doesn't it arrive cold and more expensive than dragging your ass to the drive-thru yourself?
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)
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Yes, but such an order is normally placed when the person doing the ordering is higher than giraffe pussy, so driving is (or should be) out of the question.

Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (3BwY8)

251 I have used each service once, because the introductory delivery was free. Order was f'd up and late each time. One order was delivered to an office building across town and never arrived. I suspected it was illegals who couldn't navigate correctly on the app.

Anyway, I hope the feds step in to what appears to be indentured servitude.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (n5tGW)

252 I don't care about people touching my stuff. I just don't think they would be as discerning as I am.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (DRSnL)

Really? Wow. Now I REALLY look forward to the next TxMoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

253 I have never used Uber Eats, Door Dash, Grub Hub, or any similar businesses, so I have no experiences to relate.
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Ditto. Great & most informative rant -- thank you, Buck!

I work as a 1099 medical courier independent contractor for The VA. My company, a federal contractor, goes through the motions (but often fails for example to do background checks on new hires).

Several years ago I was interviewed by someone from The Department of Labor as some workers were claiming they were not making minimum wage (the problem being that you must use your own vehicle and pay out-of-pocket for car expenses -- and if you have one or more lemons with high maintenance and/or gas costs -- you can get screwed.

I've averaged about $25/hour (and pay no income taxes except a little self-employment tax) because of the mileage deduction (85,000 miles/year). Had three great years during Trump 1.0 and a low-maintenance car I'd bought with 165,000 miles on it and got 300,000 more before it quit) and low gas prices -- making about $30/hour; however, I had the nightmare year from hell in 2022 (bought 3 used car lemons and high gas prices), where I made only $10/hour. UGH!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (+mTgD)

254 The narrative of the article is another juxtaposition of the poor exploited immigrant v. the young liberal professional. It makes for a good tale, and I'm sure to an extent it is true, but it is not the only one.

I don't get food deliveries, and I don't live in a big city, and I'm certainly not young or liberal, but I have had all manner of items delivered, and some of it was dropped off by some Joe or Jose driving their own car, and subbed out from every retail business you can imagine.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (MZ+PY)

255 The food delivery stuff is still just weird.

Paying about the same cost as buying food from a restaurant to have it delivered?

Why not drive there and get it yourself and save $20?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
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Because people are lazy and don't want to leave their house. And Covid changed a lot of people's habits for good.

But if someone wants to use the delivery service, then use it. I don't tell people how to spend their money. I do say, though, that you can only spend it once, so if someone is spending piles of money on food delivery then complaining that they don't have money for X or Y, then that person can fuck right off.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

256 Cut out the middlemen.

- Call the restaurant directly (or use their online ordering system if they have one, and that's what you prefer.)
- Indicate you'll pick up the order in person.
- Pay in cash, exact change.
- Don't tip for this, you're picking up the order. You are your own deliveryman.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (O7YUW)

257 Really? Wow. Now I REALLY look forward to the next TxMoMe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

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You're such a dork.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (DRSnL)

258 I mean, the cheapest, quickest most nutritious bang for your buck, is a pack of micorwave rice, a can of tuna, some mayo, sircacha and if you want some veg, tear up some spinach, mix and you got a balanced meal for under 3 bucks in less than 5 minutes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)

Costco rotisserie chicken (last multiple meals), top ramen, onion, garlic, cabbage, carrot, soy, sriracha, and you have an OK stir fry noodle. That's multiple delicious meals in a week for about $10.

Use the carcass for tortilla soup at end of week for another meal, with added beans, peppers, green chiles at fairly low cost.

That's multiple delicious meals for less than about $30, though there may be some investment in spices, admittedly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (dK+Kv)

259
You're such a dork.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (DRSnL)

And?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Our neighbor gets burger king occasionally from uber eats and sometimes they leave it at my house by mistake. No way I am going to pay $18 for a whopper value meal when the place is less than a mile from our house and they have $4.99 whopper value meal specials five days out of the week.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (0N4FZ)
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Does this neighbor use a mobility scooter?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM

Nope he is in his 40's and works construction.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (0N4FZ)

261 245 For as bad as we want to say California is, they started the trend of trying to destroy the "Gig Economy". While the supporters of slavery pointed to Creatives who worked as contractors, the real targets of the California legislation are the slaves of Door Dash.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (xE0sV)
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At best California is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The commie-controlled CA gov't is mad that there is a big sector of the economy that isn't unionized and therefore funneling union dues to the D politicians, so they want to get the delivery people organized in order to wet their beaks. Let's not give them too much credit here.

Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (3BwY8)

262 I just can't see using doordash or something to bring me McDonalds. Doesn't it arrive cold and more expensive than dragging your ass to the drive-thru yourself?
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)

I certainly wouldn't Doordash McD's, but I haaaaaaate drivethrus.

Inevitably someone in front of you is ordering a cheeseburger, and asking about the sesame seed count, and whether the mustard can be served separately in a cup, and can they have the fries with no salt, and can I have the drink with no ice.

And don't get me started on pickles.

Just peel the damn things off your sammich yourself, you philistine!!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (BRtdF)

263 So when do the obligatory "How To Speak To MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving" articles in leftwing bird-feeder rags come out?

Leftists saying anything other than reciting the 2-3-4 Principle† in humility, is lies and insincerity.

†
• I'm sorry (2 words)
• I was wrong (3 words)
• Will You Forgive Me (4 words)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (PVBkQ)

264 >I don't care about people touching my stuff. I just don't think they would be as discerning as I am.
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I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off.

Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (AOsQT)

265 Many years ago, I was marginally involved in a prostitute murder case. My assignment was to trace the proceeds of money embezzled from a government agency by a suspect. (The suspected had previously been convicted of embezzlement from a different government agency but, knowing that, they hired him anyway because he had turned his life around.) I traced a good deal of the embezzled money into the victim /prostitute's account. (She wasn't a simple street whore; she was a class operator.) It was then that I learned she had a web page including a star rating system with comments just like Amazon. The embezzler apparently didn't kill her as another guy, who was a regular at the restaurant where my daughter worked, was convicted for her murder.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

266 I have both ordered Uber Eats and delivered for Uber Eats.

As a consumer, it's stupid: You're paying as much as 50% more for the food. That's going to arrive cold and soggy. The time-savings doesn't offset the fees and quality degradation.

As a deliverer: You people eat garbage. A lot. And how do you have so much money to waste on over-paying for basically fast food? I could gross $1k a week(but the vehicle mileage? oof.) But that's targeting high-pop, college/young professional areas during peak hours. e.g. every delivery was less than 10 miles; you know, easy driving distance for them as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (HXT0k)

267 Costco rotisserie chicken (last multiple meals), top ramen, onion, garlic, cabbage, carrot, soy, sriracha, and you have an OK stir fry noodle. That's multiple delicious meals in a week for about $10.

Use the carcass for tortilla soup at end of week for another meal, with added beans, peppers, green chiles at fairly low cost.

That's multiple delicious meals for less than about $30, though there may be some investment in spices, admittedly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM

We buy those and make home made chicken noodle soup from it. One of those $5 chickens goes a long way.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (0N4FZ)

268 I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off.
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (AOsQT)

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Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (DRSnL)

269 I saw Higher Than Giraffe Pussy open for the Tall Dwarfs at Jezebel's in '87.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (+mTgD)

270 Here's another delivery service that probably has some risk; medicine delivery.

Can you imagine someone who's job is to deliver medicine to customers? How well vetted do you think that person is? Especially if you're having narcotics delivered.

Medicine by mail is one thing. Having some unknown rando with a Kia bring me my pain pills... nah.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (NwnyJ)

271 Spy networks do the same thing. But worse. Spy b, cannot spy on A, because of red tape. Spy b, will pay spy x to spy on A.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (EyfuW)

272 @248 An old person in poor health having all their groceries delivered to their door is not helping themselves, assuming they are able to drive. Any steps out the door are bettet than none. If I start doing that it means I've given up.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (36PRH)

273 >I don't care about people touching my stuff. I just don't think they would be as discerning as I am.
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I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off.

Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (AOsQT)

So I catch any of you homos touching my stuff, and I'll kill you.

Posted by: Psycho at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (dK+Kv)

274 Ate at Sonic when taking the FiL back home last weekend.

#1 value meal (smashburger - meh......) with tots and a Dr. Pepper.

Added another cheesburger, modified as requested, with a large Diet Dr. Pepper.

$24

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

275 Just got back from walking. Went uptown past the courthouse. Only three protesters with a lot of signs hanging on the iron fence outside the courthouse. Jury still deliberating on manslaughter charge vs trooper

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (bfwj/)

276
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

I'm happy that the only people who will be here for TG are conservatives. I was glad that when I went out to lunch last week with a friend who is a Democrat we assiduously avoided politics. The only thing she said when I mentioned a restaurant we might go to was "That place lace had been closed for months. The owner was picked up by ICE ." I didn't tell her that if she read something other than the leftist community rag and the NYTshe might have read that he was picked up for being a spy for a foreign government Anyway, we talked about families and TG and church and had a very nice lunch.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (ELdpA)

277 276 -Has. Not lace. Thanks autocorrect 😕

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (ELdpA)

278 We buy those and make home made chicken noodle soup from it. One of those $5 chickens goes a long way.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (0N4FZ)

We do exactly as posted. Make the top ramen noodles, discard the broth, stir fry with meat and veggies. Carcass is waiting in fridge for tortilla soup this weekend.

Posted by: Psycho at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (dK+Kv)

279 #1 value meal (smashburger - meh......) with tots and a Dr. Pepper.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

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Oooh I like their smashburgers.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (DRSnL)

280 BTW… when did sit down full service restaurants become insanely expensive? Took wife, daughter and boyfriend to Cheesecake Factory for dinner last weekend… dinner for 4 turned out to cost more than $250 after tip. IMHO that’s insane… it never used to cost that much. EVERYTHING in the food industry was ruined by covid lockdowns. Enraging

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)

281 Food deliveries used to be the normal mode of operation before everyone had a car.

Get your milk and eggs and beef and veg delivered to your door.

The exploitation of illegal aliens is the only modern aspect of it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (a+4eV)

Most of those deliveries were done by employees of the vendor. And they did not get tipped on a daily basis. Maybe a gift at Christmas time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (npFr7)

282 A lot of leftwing politics and economics really just boils down to "I want cheap servants" doesn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (sKqQm)

283
“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.

Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

Bingo. The $150 sweater is the gift that keeps on giving. The $150 snacks end up as a fart, a burp, and end up in the toilet in a matter of hours.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (snZF9)

284 Many years ago, I was marginally involved in a prostitute murder case. My assignment was to trace the proceeds of money embezzled from a government agency by a suspect. (The suspected had previously been convicted of embezzlement from a different government agency but, knowing that, they hired him anyway because he had turned his life around.) I traced a good deal of the embezzled money into the victim /prostitute's account. (She wasn't a simple street whore; she was a class operator.) It was then that I learned she had a web page including a star rating system with comments just like Amazon. The embezzler apparently didn't kill her as another guy, who was a regular at the restaurant where my daughter worked, was convicted for her murder.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
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This is the modern prostitution system for the more affluent. You can order them like anything else, through your phone. They arrive in 30 minutes, if not less. It's all out and in the open. Nobody cares.

The poor still street-walk. The more affluent have their whores delivered.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

285 Again, he was all about entertainment. If he felt someone wasn't high enough quality entertainment, he pushed them aside. That was his role at that point.

His show wasn't opinion.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

Ok, I guess what you're saying is he kept politics and other nonsense out of it. I guess that's true.

What I'm talking about though, is that Johnny's opinions influenced so much of who succeeded or failed in comedy. There are comics, good ones, who say Johnny never had them back on the show because they said something about Johnny's tie, or some other such nonsense.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (BRtdF)

286 Even though they just remodeled their kitchen, our neighbors use door dash and uber eats regularly. They have 4 kids, too. I can't imagine what they spend on food.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (luW68)

287 But I'm talking about cheap and more importantly, quick, the costco rotissarie chicken need to be processed and vacuum sealed to really make it last, which increases cost and prep time.

With the raman, you boil the raman in stock, discard the spice packs, add your own spices and some canned chicken and veggies.

Very little prep time and the food is the freshest it's going to be.

I used to meal prep for a week, but by the 4th or 5th day, the food was starting to get a little off.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (XV/Pl)

288 IMHO that’s insane… it never used to cost that much. EVERYTHING in the food industry was ruined by covid lockdowns. Enraging

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)

That and minimum wage. Insane.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

289 BTW… when did sit down full service restaurants become insanely expensive? Took wife, daughter and boyfriend to Cheesecake Factory for dinner last weekend… dinner for 4 turned out to cost more than $250 after tip. IMHO that’s insane… it never used to cost that much. EVERYTHING in the food industry was ruined by covid lockdowns. Enraging
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)

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$250 for Cheesecake Factory, WTF?

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (DRSnL)

290 Oddly the one food there used to be delivery for...pizza? Not of the pizza places around me still deliver it.

Yes you can get doordash/etc but not the resteraunts themselves.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (sKqQm)

291 247
‘ That was his role at that point.

His show wasn't opinion.’

Rogan’s format is different. If you don’t get any opinions what the hell are you going to talk about for three hours?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)

292
Oooh I like their smashburgers.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (DRSnL)

Not at $12 for a 'value' meal........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

293 Most of those deliveries were done by employees of the vendor. And they did not get tipped on a daily basis. Maybe a gift at Christmas time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Bottle of rotgut for those cold December mornings.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (QtIaX)

294 I like doing these gigs because I'm independent. I can log on and off as I please, and pick and choose the jobs. Pay too low? Reject. Distance too far? Reject. Destination is a shady area? Reject. I also work in a suburban and rural area, the busiest zone around here is around Rowan University. Those "poor" college kids love their expensive food delivery and on-demand weekend car service, lol.
Too bad these exploitationists are gonna ruin it for the rest of us.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (Do64S)

295 So when do the obligatory "How To Speak To MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving" articles in leftwing bird-feeder rags come out?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

"You eat potatoes just like Hitler!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

296 People got pizza delivery all the time. It's not THAT crazy an idea. Not that I order food like that but we did a lot in college.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (zcxpP)

297 BTW… when did sit down full service restaurants become insanely expensive? Took wife, daughter and boyfriend to Cheesecake Factory for dinner last weekend… dinner for 4 turned out to cost more than $250 after tip.

So probably something like $12 drink, $30 entree, $12 dessert X4 plus tip right?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)

298 The general answer to "why is food so expensive now" is that Biden destroyed half the value of the dollar.

So a $10 meal then will cost you $20 now.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:04 PM (sKqQm)

299 Not at $12 for a 'value' meal........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

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Fair.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:04 PM (DRSnL)

300 An old person in poor health having all their groceries delivered to their door is not helping themselves, assuming they are able to drive. Any steps out the door are bettet than none. If I start doing that it means I've given up.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (36PRH)

Or you put your time and effort, putting up with the pain of getting ready and leaving your house for visiting friends and family, going to church or other social activities.

And you get your groceries delivered because you can.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:05 PM (BRtdF)

301 265
‘ Many years ago, I was marginally involved in a prostitute murder case.’

Small world!

Posted by: Jack the Ripper at November 21, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)

302 Although I guess delivery of pizza only cost the tip and everything else was built in.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:05 PM (zcxpP)

303 Too bad these exploitationists are gonna ruin it for the rest of us.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (Do64S)

2 of my cousins are Instacart drivers, and they describe their work day exactly like you. One of them doesn't need to work at all, she does it for the pocket money. One time a local college needed a catering job delivered, she made $125.00 on one shopping trip.

the other cousin also does it as pocket money or in the winter when he is laid off construction work due to weather

Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 12:06 PM (dCxaZ)

304 Then again what was a five dollar tip back then?

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:06 PM (zcxpP)

305 Many years ago, I was marginally involved in a prostitute murder case
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Only marginally? Piker.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (zcxpP)

306 So probably something like $12 drink, $30 entree, $12 dessert X4 plus tip right?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)

Yes that’s about right. I shoulda known in advance because the arithmetic is correct (and why go to CF and not order cheesecake?)… but I felt assaulted by the check when it arrived. I’d say that 5-10 years ago the same meal would’ve cost $150…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (WnEm5)

307 Drone food delivery.
Posted by: tubal

Skeet with prizes.
Posted by: rickb223

So you say you chipped this tooth biting down onto a bit of steel shot that was left in your... french fries?

Posted by: rickb's dentist at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (emg/O)

308 Rogan’s format is different. If you don’t get any opinions what the hell are you going to talk about for three hours?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)

And the comment above was not about Rogan's podcast.

Rogan has created a place for young comics to come and hone their skills. It's his comedy club, and the biggest opportunity at the club is for those comics who put their names in a bucket, hoping Tony Hinchcliffe pulls it out so they can get a minute on the biggest comedy show in the universe.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:08 PM (j0t2N)

309 Ate at Sonic when taking the FiL back home last weekend.

#1 value meal (smashburger - meh......) with tots and a Dr. Pepper.

Added another cheesburger, modified as requested, with a large Diet Dr. Pepper.

$24
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

Went to a taproom yesterday in Drumheller, AB. Beef dip sammich with poutine fries on the side, and a glass of craft beer, Came to about $34 CDN. Food was good, and arrived at my seat at the bar hot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:08 PM (npFr7)

310 You eat potatoes just like Hitler!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

LOL. You'd think they could come up with something more original such as "The way you cut your turkey reminds me of what I ve seen of Mengele " except they probably don't know any others names of Nazis except Hitler.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:09 PM (ELdpA)

311 Food service is expensive because you can't really run a restaurant when you are paying staff anywhere from 15-25 dollars an hour depending on the state, also the margins for restaurants is very low, so any wild increases in inflation and costs will put you under.

The Townsquare diner in Wharton just closed.

Used to go there for Saint Pats to get Corned Beef and cabbage.

I really don't know how any diner can stay open these days.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 12:09 PM (XV/Pl)

312 Why not drive there and get it yourself and save $20?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)

I've always assumed being too drunk or high to leave the house accounts for some of this behavior. That plus a lot of younger people's aversion to driving.

I don't know where the money comes from. It's harder to feel bad about the can't-buy-a-home stories when you look at where their money is apparently going.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 12:09 PM (wKJf5)

313 So probably something like $12 drink, $30 entree, $12 dessert X4 plus tip right?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)

Yes that’s about right. I shoulda known in advance because the arithmetic is correct (and why go to CF and not order cheesecake?)… but I felt assaulted by the check when it arrived. I’d say that 5-10 years ago the same meal would’ve cost $150…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (WnEm5)
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More like 3-4 years ago. The pricing exploded under Biden due to rampant inflation and covid lockdowns. The lockdowns had much more of an impact than people think. Restaurants that were shut down for months opened back up, and jacked up the prices to try to make back some of the money. People paid the inflated prices. Guess what? The prices never came back down.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

314 310
‘ except they probably don't know any others names of Nazis except Hitler.’

If you’re lucky they’ll be a vegetarian…
just like Hitler!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (jbnUc)

315 Used GrubHub several times when on the road for work and the hotel didn't have a restaurant. Never messed up an order and the delivery folks had insulated boxes for the orders.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

316 Actually, if anyone had any humor you could do a whole "Don't mention the war !" Type of Skit involving food.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (ELdpA)

317 306 So probably something like $12 drink, $30 entree, $12 dessert X4 plus tip right?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)

Yes that’s about right. I shoulda known in advance because the arithmetic is correct (and why go to CF and not order cheesecake?)… but I felt assaulted by the check when it arrived. I’d say that 5-10 years ago the same meal would’ve cost $150…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (WnEm5)

The alcohol's a big game-changer.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (RuTUS)

318 Nood Ace.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (NcvvS)

319 If you’re lucky they’ll be a vegetarian…
just like Hitler!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (jbnUc)

In the Great War, Hitler was a runner.

You could say he was the prototype for DoorDash.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (j0t2N)

320 Nood. I have returned from chauffeuring the wife and Ace has arrived.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)

321 Used GrubHub several times when on the road for work and the hotel didn't have a restaurant. Never messed up an order and the delivery folks had insulated boxes for the orders.
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

There's a "you know who else" joke, just lying there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (npFr7)

322 The general answer to "why is food so expensive now" is that Biden destroyed half the value of the dollar.

So a $10 meal then will cost you $20 now.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:04 PM (sKqQm)

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I'm fixing to ask for a raise next April (after 13 years and the beginning of a new federal contract), and was curious to see what the compounded rate of inflation has been since I started my current job in June of 2013 -- so I can see how far my pay has fallen behind.

Per the BLS CPI-U (which includes energy & housing costs), the inflation rate since 6/2013 has been nearly 37% -- and will likely be around 40% around April 2026.

BUT IT'S ALL DRUMPHFFFF'S FAULT! [Although, it would be nice to AT LEAST TRY to finally eliminate the deficit and start reducing the $300+ trillion National Debt (not sure Tariffs alone will do it) -- a futile exercise if there ever was one now ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (+mTgD)

323 Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 202

LOL. I am glad you're eating vegetables just like the vegetarian Hitler. More dark meat for me."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (ELdpA)

324 I eat ostrich a fair amount because of Alpha-Gal. The price difference between that and beef is rapidly narrowing.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (PCK5/)

325 308 Rogan’s format is different. If you don’t get any opinions what the hell are you going to talk about for three hours?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)

And the comment above was not about Rogan's podcast.

Rogan has created a place for young comics to come and hone their skills. It's his comedy club, and the biggest opportunity at the club is for those comics who put their names in a bucket, hoping Tony Hinchcliffe pulls it out so they can get a minute on the biggest comedy show in the universe.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:08 PM (j0t2N)

https://comedymothership.com

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (RuTUS)

326 Other Gen Z customers told The Post that food was currently the one thing on which they were willing to spare no expense.

“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.

Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.

I think that speaks to a different and deeper problem - People who see no point in getting expensive durable goods because they figure those can be taken from them at any time. (Because they were, in school, during these kids' formative years)

It's the perfect attitude for surviving communism.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (a+4eV)

327 https://x.com/Marooned_Maroon/status/1991908191622611447

Posted by: Marooned at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (kt8QE)

328 nood jobs

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (nXhwP)

329 Re: Rogan... some people truly hate him.

I was just letting YouTube run in the background while working a few weeks back. Some dude came on, just ripping into Rogan and his various pals. I don't care about industry drama in the comedy biz, so I was going to change it - but this guy was so unhinged and vicious and angry about Joe Rogan, that I ended up watching about 45mins of his much longer utterly insane, obsessive invective about Joe Rogan, and how he is the root of all evil. I think this guy might end up climbing a bell tower and shooting at him, at some point.

I think he calls his channel "Elephant Graveyard."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (BI5O2)

330 318 Nood Ace.
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (NcvvS)

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (RuTUS)

331 Cavalierly disregarding the laws

But if YOU disregard a misgendering law...

Anarchotyranny

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ZUreJ)

332 I owe my soul to the company store!

Posted by: Inkmiser at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (YvqE7)

333 By the way, Tony West, Kamala Harris' brother-in-law, is still the Chief Legal Officer at Uber. [ ... ]

He's a good friend of the former President, Barack Obama & is involved with The Obama Foundation.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM

Via Grok:

West's ties to Barack Obama run deep: They first connected in the late 1980s through mutual circles at Harvard Law (Obama was the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review; West later became the third Black president of the Stanford Law Review).

Obama appointed him Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in 2009 and later Associate Attorney General (the DOJ's third-ranking role) from 2012–2014, where West oversaw key efforts like dropping the defense of DOMA, recovering $37 billion from banks post-2008 crisis, and advancing civil rights.

Their friendship persists; West serves on the Obama Foundation's My Brother's Keeper Alliance Advisory Council, supporting initiatives for boys and young men of color, and has been praised by Obama-era allies for his integrity and impact.

Grok: https://bit.ly/489KARX

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (P5BPp)

334 My brother gets Mexican food delivered because the best tasting restaurant is in the worst part of town. He doesn't feel safe eating there.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (jc0TO)

335 BTW… when did sit down full service restaurants become insanely expensive? Took wife, daughter and boyfriend to Cheesecake Factory for dinner last weekend… dinner for 4 turned out to cost more than $250 after tip. IMHO that’s insane… it never used to cost that much. EVERYTHING in the food industry was ruined by covid lockdowns. Enraging
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)

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$250 for Cheesecake Factory, WTF?
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (DRSnL)

15 to 20 bucks minimum wage passed by the fat cats in the legislatures, didn't help. Notice the cost of electricity hasn't gone either. And the idiot local towns raising property taxes based upon what Zillow says the property is worth, contributes to the cost increases.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (5xuJ/)

336 If you really wanted to end illegal immigration, it's businesses you need to go after. But nobody really wants to do that.

Just make every business that runs a payroll verify SS#'s and half the problem would be eliminated.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM

Yep, this has been obvious since the 2006 Amnesty push by President Bush, John McCain and the entire GOP.

That taught me that no one in government has any intention of solving illegal immigration, because the solution is simple: enforce the fucking laws that have been on the books for decades.

Nope, instead, every 5-10 years, we get the call for "comprehensive immigration reform". Fuck off with that. There's no need to reform shit. Enforce the fucking laws on the books and the issue is solved.

But no one will do that. Because everyone is corrupt. The 2006 Amnesty push by the GOP was my wake-up call that the entire system is corrupt and I stopped being a Republican voter. Trump was the first person I voted for in years, as he was only one addressing the problem and then has tried to do something about it during his two terms.

However, I am disillusioned again with the H1B bullshit.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (P5BPp)

337 "Jessica"

They pick the whitest possible name for this hypothetical.

LaQuonda. Bet on it.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (GYGpZ)

338 Late to the party. BUT…me thinks I am watching this unfold on my job. There are several Door Dashers who know zero English that I see from time to time. I wonder…

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:02 PM (6KcYW)

339 337 "Jessica"

They pick the whitest possible name for this hypothetical.

LaQuonda. Bet on it.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (GYGpZ)

In HS I knew a hot, dark skinned Latin girl whose name was in fact Jessica.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (6KcYW)

340 336 If you really wanted to end illegal immigration, it's businesses you need to go after. But nobody really wants to do that.

Just make every business that runs a payroll verify SS#'s and half the problem would be eliminated.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM

I agree but the candle must burn at all ends. If businesses can’t hire illegal aliens to begin with because none are available that is all to the good.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (6KcYW)

341 I wonder how many hungry underpaid 'dashers' open the food containers for quick bite of whatever is inside.
Dipping street filthy fingers into the rich sauce covered noodles or rice...
... think about it.

Posted by: John the River at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (Li1E5)

342 Stepin Fetchits on mopeds.

Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (i+bC1)

343 For as bad as we want to say California is, they started the trend of trying to destroy the "Gig Economy". While the supporters of slavery pointed to Creatives who worked as contractors, the real targets of the California legislation are the slaves of Door Dash.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (xE0sV)
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At best California is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The commie-controlled CA gov't is mad that there is a big sector of the economy that isn't unionized and therefore funneling union dues to the D politicians, so they want to get the delivery people organized in order to wet their beaks. Let's not give them too much credit here.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (3BwY

They are trying to kill it because of Uber delivering people, not burgers. Its a sop to the cab monopoly and started even before COVID and post covid explosion. They want their cut and a new union to get donations, nothing more.

It for sure has nothing to do with helping out illegal slaves. Dems love that action.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 01:32 PM (8avO+)

344 BTW… when did sit down full service restaurants become insanely expensive? Took wife, daughter and boyfriend to Cheesecake Factory for dinner last weekend… dinner for 4 turned out to cost more than $250 after tip. IMHO that’s insane… it never used to cost that much. EVERYTHING in the food industry was ruined by covid lockdowns. Enraging
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)

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$250 for Cheesecake Factory, WTF?
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (DRSnL)

There's a big jump when all the kids slide off the kids menu and get big boy drinks and food.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (8avO+)

345 I just can't see using doordash or something to bring me McDonalds. Doesn't it arrive cold and more expensive than dragging your ass to the drive-thru yourself?

Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM

Why would it be cold if someone else picks it up? Unless you're eating it in the car on the way back home, whether you are delivering it to your house or the Uber delivery person is, it's the same amount of drive time to bring it home from the restaurant.

In many cases though, food delivery people invest in food carrier bags which keep food hot (or cold) during deliveries. I have seen that a lot in my area (SE Michigan).

That said, yes, the order is typically more expensive. The food is slightly more expensive on the site (Door Dash, Uber Eats, Grub Hub, etc), then there's the service fee, delivery charge and any tip. For those who have Amazon Prime memberships, they get free delivery for anything from either Uber Eats or Door Dash, I forget which.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (P5BPp)

346 I have a fix for all the misery of the "migrant" "dashers."

GTFO of the United Stated.

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (uR4Tu)

347 I see these guys picking up orders all day, every day. 90% of them don't speak English.

Posted by: Spartacus Booker at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (W+TLY)

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