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A restaurant at 16th and I Streets NW in Washington, DC, (a block from Lafayette Square, that is, and two from the White House), made the newspaper a few years ago for offering a ham sandwich for $25. I have never bought one, have never even entered the restaurant. But I assume that some people ordered it, else why have it on the menu?

Before the pandemic, good sandwiches ran $8 to $11 from food trucks in DC. This I assume was set by the need of the food truck to make a profit. The result was the sandwiches were sized to make $11 sense for the workers thereabouts--I thought them a bit large for lunch.



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I'm not surprised that the swamp, of all places, has $25 price tags on $5 sandwiches. It's the same place that'll pay $2000 for a $100 toilet.

I've seen little indication that DC has a sane cost of living.


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