I know it is not the same but for years I have bought a small Brookshire's sugar free iced tea to drink on the way home from shopping. It was for many years .99 cents. Yesterday it was $1.29. Guess I'll quit doing that. It's not really the cost but the principal, a 30% increase in a small, iced tea?

I would add that all this shock and awe at restaurant prices is surprising. When you hear about inflation where do you people think it actually hits you? You dont buy from suppliers, you dont pay trucking companies, the restaurants, gas stations, retail stores, grocery stores are the cash registers for the entire system. When you hear the price of fertilizer has gone up, cattle feed, dead chickens, etc. That's gonna land somewhere and that is at the final cash register where you spend. It's not a hard concept.

There's probably a good number of people here who didn't live thru the Carter years. This is worse IMO.