Why was a $5 milkshake so offensive to Vince?

Why was a $5 milkshake so offensive to Vince?

  1. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe $5 is a lot during the time that this movie takes place. How much was a pack of cigarettes? That's what I want to know.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      >How much was a pack of cigarettes? That's what I want to know.
      Average price was $1.92 a pack, anon.

      • 6 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, okay. I'm paying like $2 for a single cigarette in my country. I think my country (Australia) has the highest prices.

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          I used to smoke, so I know, man. My city has basically made it illegal to smoke anywhere but on your own property too.

          • 6 months ago
            Anonymous

            You used to smoke? Wow. I'm glad your life has meaning because I'll quit when I'm dead.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      At the time that was a crazy high price for a milkshake, anon. Magazines at the newsstands that contained free demos with full games mistakenly put on them to play forever cost less than 5 bucks in the early 90s.
      We're so fucked now it's comical.

      $10.25 in today's money.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      I started smoking in 2002 and I could buy a pack for $3 or so

      • 6 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm guessing you're American if the price is that good. Being a smoker in my country is like for rich people or poor people who understand their place in life.

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          >is that good
          He said 1992, Paco. A pack of cigs is like eight bucks now.

          • 6 months ago
            Anonymous

            2002, Jorge

          • 6 months ago
            Anonymous

            2002*
            same diff really

          • 6 months ago
            Anonymous

            What the hell is a Paco? Is that like a racial slur? A pack of cigarettes for me is like $50.

            • 6 months ago
              Anonymous

              >What the hell is a Paco?
              It's a proper name, your name, so relax.
              >A pack of cigarettes for me is like $50.
              Then quit.

              • 6 months ago
                Anonymous

                My name isn't Paco so you can go fuck yourself. I won't quit but I will quit this thread. I need to go filter 20 threads full of amerimutts and shitskins and women and trannies. Reply after I'm gone.

              • 6 months ago
                Anonymous

                Settle down, take a nap, Paco.

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes and it was in the state of Virginia which used to be the tobacco capital of America so we didnt have all the insane taxes on cigarettes. A pack now is probably $7.50 or so

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      Packs were under a buck too, 25s

  2. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    At the time that was a crazy high price for a milkshake, anon. Magazines at the newsstands that contained free demos with full games mistakenly put on them to play forever cost less than 5 bucks in the early 90s.
    We're so fucked now it's comical.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      >At the time that was a crazy high price for a milkshake, anon. Magazines at the newsstands that contained free demos with full games mistakenly put on them to play forever cost less than 5 cents in the early 1920s. We're so fucked now it's comical.

      • 6 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ah yes, doom, vintage 1920, a fine year.

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          Kind of neat trick since TV would not be invented for 7 more years.

  3. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    5 dollars then is equal to 38 dollars today

  4. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's a scoop or two of ice cream, milk, and a single cherry. it's less than a dollar of material with minimal labor required. vincent understands value because those calculations are a constant thing for someone in his line of work. only a woman who enjoys impromptu foot rubs, free drugs everywhere she goes, and is constantly partying would order a travesty such as a $5 milkshake.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yup. As weird as it sounds, Vince was the closest thing the film had to a blue collar worker and indeed he knew the costs.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      The only way to justify the cost is if they used real vanilla pods instead of vanilla extract in the ice cream.

      >One vanilla pod costs around 7.99 USD at common grocery stores.

      • 6 months ago
        Anonymous

        Also, a different type of milk.

        >Deer Milk ($80 a Gallon)

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          Also, a very expensive cherry.

          >A single cherry has sold for the equivalent of £240 at an auction in Japan, confirming the country's status as the world centre of outrageously overpriced fruit.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      You pay for location, service among others, it’s in the price via high demand. If lots of people want to eat there, prices go up

  5. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    That's like $100 in 1990

  6. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gourmet ice cream and shakes weren't common in the country yet. For most people, shakes were about a dollar at McDonald's. Five times the price most were accustomed to was surprising.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      When I saw Pulp Fiction sometime in 1995 (missed its theatrical release) I laughed at the price and I'm sure everyone else did because we were meant to sympathize with Vince in his reaction to it. The chick was used to being rich and saw no issue.

  7. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because he knew it brings all the boys to the yard.

  8. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    $5 in 1994 money equals $10.26 in today money. That's the goddamn $10 milkshake.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      >That's the goddamn $10 milkshake.
      And that's before a tip too. So it really costs 11 or 12.

  9. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wonder what the Zoomers that watch this are thinking, like they don't even understand the concept of the joke.

    It's like non-GenX trying to watch Fight Club and understand anything about the movie.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      >It's like non-GenX trying to watch Fight Club and understand anything about the movie.
      You're actually retarded if you think later generations can't identify with the message

      Shit has gotten worse and worse, gen y and zoomers have the exact same problems only worse

      • 6 months ago
        Anonymous

        >gen y and zoomers have the exact same problems only worse

        I haven't seen Fight Club but I've heard the quotes and one of them is
        >we're a generation of men raised by women
        That would be more true for Millennials and Zoomers than Gen X so it's wrong to say only they understand the movie. The world is more feminised than it ever was. Men dress up like women now and demand others call them women; That's how bad things have gotten.

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          Exactly what I thought

          Some other problems mentioned are people drowning in debt (which is also worse), and advertisement being shoved in your face all the time. This one is much, much worse today, especially with entertainment being online.

          Another one is the false idols being actors and rockstars tricking people into wageslaving while dreaming of being one.
          Think of fight club being made after fucking "influencers" became a thing.

          • 6 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Another one is the false idols being actors and rockstars tricking people into wageslaving while dreaming of being one.

            Naw, nobody is being tricked into wageslaving and anyone that does work does so to stay alive. E-celebs and influencers makes the population more depressed because regular people can become rich by doing nothing and everyone else is slaving away. This is what the 21st century is like.

  10. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's juxtaposition with how much he blew (10x market or something stupid) on the H in the previous scene. Did we all watch the movie or just the diner scene on YouTube, here?

  11. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    today i paid 4.95 quid for a chocolate fudge frappe from costco

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nice. I would forego 16 frappes and buy a fat pack of cigarettes.

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      A few days ago I had to wait for my sister as she paid the equivalent of about 17usd for some sort of "coffee" drink/milkshake looking thing at a Swedish starbucks

      • 6 months ago
        Anonymous

        >some sort of "coffee" drink/milkshake looking thing at a Swedish starbucks

        Do you mean a frappe? They have those at Starbucks. Starbucks is great but it's like twice the price of any other coffee shop. Coffee snobs will tell you it's worse too but I think it's fine.

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          I can't even hear the name Starbucks and not think about the time someone posted a photo of a NEET sitting naked in his room. I was tilted because he had a Starbucks coffee and a pack of cigarettes. That guy was living the life.

        • 6 months ago
          Anonymous

          I honestly don't know, I don't drink coffee or milkshakes so I was busy looking out the window at an old man with a nice dog

          I didn't start paying attention until they called her name so the only thing I could think about was the fucking price when she paid

  12. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    $5 is pretty outrageous for a milkshake.

  13. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    ITT: re ddit faggonaggers

  14. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    sex vacations to the third world were much more affordable

    • 6 months ago
      Anonymous

      I really don't get this shit

      I'd rather jerk off than fly around the world just to fuck some jungle monkey
      Even if someone else paid I would rather stay home and fap

  15. 6 months ago
    Anonymous

    It shows she belongs to a VIP male richer than Vince. She is out of his league. He sounds offended, but it's about cursing that he'll never have a chance with her => builds sexual tension for their scenes.

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