[quote=pri_dk][quote=briansd1]My dad tells me that in the 1950s they didn’t eat the large steaks that we eat now. There were no double-doubles and the Big Mac was not yet invented.[/quote]

Uh-uh! Same menu since 1948!

Perhaps the double-double should be the standard measure for inflation?[/quote]

I was just thinking about that. I can’t tell you what a double-double cost back then, but I can tell you that a Big Mac meal cost me a buck in 1973, when I was in high school. Don’t eat McDonals very often these days, but I think the last time I had a big mac meal it was just under $7.00. And I’m pretty sure they were bigger 38 years ago. I think maybe the drinks and fries are bigger now.

That’s 600% inflation. According to an inflation calculator i found online, the increase in CPI over that same period 408.65%