Life Talk

$7.38 a head for a 4th of July cookout honestly sounds cheap to me

Reading the cookout post from up here in Canada, the thing that jumped out wasn't the record, it was the per-person number. $73.82 for ten people is about $7.38 each, which is less than a coffee and a muffin at most places near me.

What I like about the comparison is that both outlets are right. In plain dollars it's the priciest since the survey started in 2016, but adjusted for inflation it's basically flat with last year. So is it a record or not? Depends which headline you read first, I guess.

Curious how the Americans here feel. Does your actual cookout bill look anything like this?