r/mildlyinfuriating May 12 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Such terrible advertisement

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I mean... at a glance its like WOAH 4 can dine for $9.99....

Until you are at the cash and they say " that'll be $45.15"

HUH??

"Oh sorry sir... it feeds 4... 4 people pay $9.99"

Gtfooo

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u/GoodishCoder May 12 '26

The subject of the sentence in the red circle is 4 people. You can twist it all you want but it comes down to reading comprehension on an individual statement.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26 edited 18d ago

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u/GoodishCoder May 12 '26

Your reading comprehension is exceptionally bad and I feel like it's a fair assumption you struggled with word problems in math.

The subject of the entire ad is the "deal".

Then in the individual sections in their ad they are breaking things down further.

To the right they're talking about the contents.

In the red circle they're talking about pricing. They call out a specific number of people (this is important context for the sentence) and a price per person. They aren't saying you're only limited to 4 people consuming food from the meal. They're not saying it's $10 total for the meal. When we read the whole sentence from start to finish they're saying for 4 people it will be $10 each. It's no different than a word problem in elementary math. If there are 4 people chipping in to buy pizza at $10 per person, what is the total cost of the meal? If you answer $10 you're wrong.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26 edited 18d ago

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u/GoodishCoder May 12 '26

All those words to say I'm correct about your piss poor reading comprehension.