It isn't that out of touch with contemporary prices. Maybe 10 years at most, as a lot of the cost increase has been the past 5 years. Doesn't mean the image isn't older, just commenting on the price here.

A current restaurant serving Lobster Thermidor costs about 55$. While any place serving this dish is likely a high quality restaurant, it's not until one obtains a michelin star that it becomes a 3 digit affair.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

This really wasn’t that long ago. That was 10 or 20 years ago I think (can’t remember which because I’m old and time is compressed for me), but I can remember when you could get ultra basic breakfast, granted in not very classy places.

Actually no, I might be remembering 30 years ago. Sitting in a bowling alley in the 90s, that served food. Little paper placemats with right-angled celtic knot patterns all around the edge. Silverware wrapped up tight in a napkin.

That kind of place would have a basic breakfast for about a dollar.

Seems like prices shouldn’t have risen as much as they have in just that short a time.