NooPogodi
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Try to pay rent on 30 pretzels a week......
Mar 27, 2026 12:14 AM
NooPogodi
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Try to pay rent on 30 pretzels a week......
walnutbreath
If you're in PA paying $7.29 for an Auntie Anne's pretzel, you're a stupid asshole. One of the few things PA does extremely well are pretzels. You can easily find a far superior pretzel for 1/5 of that price.
There's even a huge region of the state known as the Pretzel Belt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel_Belt
physicsdoc
So, what you're telling me is that I can trade Auntie Anne's pretzel's to any minimum wage worker in exchange for deeds and services. Good to know. Thank you for the advice.
Toqom
That pretzel was $1.25 when they opened and the minimum wage was 7.25
urusername2
Imagine $7.29 for a pretzel!
pinthavefull
A whole pretzel you say..... https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1anFobnZkOW1nZ2ZiN3E4dmN5eW9wc3c3aWV2dzZ0OTZmYnl4enRvYyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/w3Er0gW94cG8E/200w.webp
RenaissanceFaireMan
Minimum wage in Nebraska is $15/hour....or two pretzels.
RElGNMAN
An hour of your time is worth less than a pretzel.
GiantShortstacks
When I was working at Toys R Us I would sell iPhones and game consoles all the time. Then one day I'm over in that electronics section looking at a used copy of DJ Hero stuffed on an endcap and it costs slightly more than I make each shift. So I'm helping the company make hundreds if not thousands of dollars every day and I'm worth less than an unpopular Guitar Hero spinoff.
sascottsn
I worked for AMC Theaters in PA like 25 years ago and minimum wage was 5.25… this shit is disgusting.
SerialChickenLover
It’s not just their time, either. It’s often physical labor and sacrificing bonding time with their children.
Ijustwantquiet
No pretzel is worth $3.
Hatsodoom
7.25 BEFORE TAX.
Anaphriel
Also funny how this statement can be applied both ways.
FrankGrenadine
I spend an hour a day on here but I don’t think my comments are worth a pretzel / s
ohthosefartypartys
Can Idebtufy. But from Cyprus ( Mediterranean sea )
Roaddog184
I make $25 an hour and could not survive if my finance also didn’t make the same.
GravyEducation
Min here is 16 an hour so I get two! I'm a two pretzel an hour kinda guy and thus I am superior /s
JulienBrightside
Is it a big pretzel?
Ih8thisSoMuch
This is insane. I got my first job (unskilled labor/construction) in 1987 making around $8 hr but by the following year I was making closer to $12. By 1991 I was making more than $20 in a managerial position - but the rent on my 2bdrm w/ garage was $400 and gas was $1 gal. Min wage should be AT LEAST $20 in 2026. It is disgusting how badly we've fucked over young people in this country (I mean we've fucked over nearly everyone, but I feel especially terrible for anyone trying to start a life rn)
lsnasty
Gotta get billionsaires more billions. The billions need to be taken from someone.
mindstorm8191
Yeah. It's like if you're not 3 roommates with 2 jobs each, you can't afford even a 1 bedroom apartment. Let alone a car to drive to & from work...
Corporations have screwed us over here. They don't care if people can make ends meet, as long as we keep working for them & buying their products. We need to start making our own economies. Make things for local people, and buy those goods from local people. Try to improve the Velocity of Money among us.
QuantumInc
People act like your wage is a reward or indicator of your worth, but it was always determined by supply and demand.
OneMoreLime
You pay me in pretzels but I will spend 95% of my work day shitting and 5% eating pretzels.
truthader
Late-stage capitalism. Everything’s twisted.
BrickaBrackaFireCracker
It's not just a pretzel, it's a SOFT pretzel.
LinkWieldsTheTriforceOfCourage
Why does Aunty Annie charge so much? Soft pretzel+lemonade is like $6.50 at Wetzel's here.
mindstorm8191
Because there are still people who will buy them, for that much.
Not me. If I wanted a soft pretzel I'd make it at home. I'm too poor to even consider buying unnecessary things like that
m0problems
It's a mall kiosk... everything is more expensive there.
Chattafaukup
The dystopia is here. It is time we did something about it.
KleptoKea
The time was at least a decade ago. You Americans are really, REALLY slow to act on issues in your country.
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18booma
The best time is now, for it is the only time we have any say in. What has been cannot change, and what will be only changes by action taken now.
KleptoKea
From your words to the ears 350 million Americans, among whom even ten percent are evidently yet to find their spines.
Greenmagegirl
im sorry I like pretzels but the mass produced plain pretzels auntie anne's sells is not worth 7.29, that's a 5 dollar snack at MOST. Who tf is paying for this?
walnutbreath
You can get a much better pretzel in PA for between $1-1.50.
Greenmagegirl
Might visit some day, your state is pretty nice :)
walnutbreath
I'm not from that industrial turd factory, but game recognize game.
Greenmagegirl
It is like, the cheapest food.
theSpinnerBoy
To be fair, it is a really good pretzel...
walnutbreath
Not by PA standards. Getting Auntie Anne's in PA is the equivalent of going to Naples and getting Dominos (and paying $90 for a pie apparently)
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
In defense of Auntie Anne's pretzels, those things are the tits.
Chattafaukup
about 30 cents worth of bread and salt and butter. Cooked and ready to eat worth maybe 2 dollars. I dont care how good they are, corporate greed is a joke.
walnutbreath
Maybe in some parts of the U.S., but not in PA. PA is the pretzel capital of the entire Western Hemisphere. You can get an amazing Amish-made pretzel with none of the preservatives or food science-processed Frankenfood for under $2.
ufoara
no they are just convenient. The fresh baked pretzels at Lidl are better.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
Kidding, never actually had Auntie Anne, I just love fresh, hot pretzels.
Pilgrymm
Isn't that a hat store?
ufoara
like the ones that promote not taking the adhesive stickers off your merchandise.
PhloydPhan
Want to know something really fucked up? In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer made just over $10 an hour (factoring in extra pay for 3rd shift) at the chocolate factory he worked at. That's not only more than the minimum wage today in raw dollars, it's also $23.99 an hour adjusted for inflation.
NaughtButOne
Wh.. Why is Jeffrey Dahmer the metric.
truthader
Anything but metric
airbudwasagainsttherules
Yeah, cause multiplying and dividing by ten is the worst. Remind me how many feet are in a mile again? Something about five tomatoes? Then tell me if ounces are weight or volume.
dohcohv
It's a factory, they generally pay better than retail. I quit my job at a paint factory 3 years ago and I was making $34.50/hr driving a forklift.
Goldensands
Oh look, a fancy wage slave. He does the forklift, like a dog shaking paws!
Haemaelaeinen
Why don't you go and shatter your kneecaps you utter cunt. We workers are the only thing keeping humanity intact. Please remove yourself from humanity.
Dannoboyo
I have no respect for that kind of remark. Most people in America can't just go out and live off the land, and many jobs today are just reselling things while creating nothing, I know a woman who made computers for IBM with a soldering Iron 30 years ago, and she works in a convenience store now, while you are posting from a phone made in China, and Immigrants would just love to come to America to do ANYTHING just to have a job. I'll bet Forklift guy has a better job now, because he's willing to.
Goldensands
The remark is specifically, and obviously, to ridicule the filth of a system that americans live beneath. Immigrant, forklift operator, or you. All wage slaves beneath a fascist pedo dictator and the capitalist oligarchy that enables him. A culture that worships wealth, fame, stupidity and itself will always be thus, and it's no coincidence that slightly-higher wage slave forklift guy feels superior over his slightly higher wage-slave wage. Including if he does have a "better" job today.
farfie
"Oh look, a fancy wage slave. He does the forklift, like a dog shaking paws!" Is disparaging the individual rather than the system. That's shitty of you.
seenunseen
That's fucked and all..but why are you spending $7 on a pretzel? I can get a bag of pretzels for $3. I can make a horde of fresh pretzels for $20. Just tossing your money at big pretzel
truthader
Late-stage capitalism. Billionaires are twisted and pretzels are, too.
walnutbreath
In PA of all places. It's the pretzel capital of the entire Western Hemisphere.
malkavian3str
A person working afull time job, shouldn't have to worry too much about the price of a small snack.
seenunseen
Caviar is a small snack, it goes for $45 on the low end. Should a full time worker making $45 an hour have to worry much about the price of that small snack?
FisheswithDynamite
I feel like you're being purposefully difficult. People don't go to the mall and grab a can caviar to walk around and snack on. Normal people aren't popping open a can on their couch. But a pretzel? Sure. Even if you considered it a luxury because it is at the mall, having a single pretzel cost more than minimum wage is ludicrous.