Conservatives Debate Burritos

Trump: We inherited a terrible mess. I inherited a mess from Obama pic.twitter.com/95Lgqr111A

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 5, 2026

Obama In-n-Out vs. Trump “Golden Age” In-N-Out pic.twitter.com/mePZc9McLo

— Hunter Wallace (@LutherEnjoyer) August 5, 2026

When I was 20 eating at home was *dirt* cheap AND you could also go to Chipotle and get a massive meal for $6 after tax

Today the same bowl is roughly $12/13 and the same groceries are 43% more expensive. It was nice and we should try to make that happen for todays 20 year olds pic.twitter.com/iP4cTOXum3

— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) August 5, 2026

Burrito prices in 2017 vs 2026.
We call this inflation.
Because every government prints money.
Even the Trump administration.
Ignoring this is either being stupid or willfully ignorant.
Young people have every right to be outraged for our generation (and past generations)… https://t.co/QqT3Tu2HfW pic.twitter.com/KgFr28qp77

— Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) August 5, 2026

Ben Shapiro says the Iran War that he championed “has had basically no impact on food prices in the US.” pic.twitter.com/ONa4IMOBnO

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) August 5, 2026

I hear that young people are upset about $20 burritos. Okay, young people: a burrito does not cost $20. If you’re paying $20 for a burrito and you’re not independently wealthy, you’re doing life wrong. We have enough problems as a country without insane expectations that the…

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 5, 2026

People, this burrito discourse is really about DoorDash and Uber Eats. Simple meals are expensive if you have them prepared AND delivered to you. If you go get it yourself, it’s cheaper. If you buy the ingredients and make it yourself, it’s cheaper still. That’s it.

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) August 5, 2026

Last night, my wife made homemade burritos for our family of 8 and it cost less than $20 total for everyone.

Im beginning to think the affordability crisis is really an “I don’t know how to cook” crisis https://t.co/WCf6IhUKnT

— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) August 4, 2026

The golden age of stretching your ground beef with refried beans https://t.co/XCEpAFroYI pic.twitter.com/Xz5OdJCE8z

— Apolitical (@Apolitical3678) August 5, 2026

And this, boys and girls, is what a gaslighting sociopathic shill looks like. pic.twitter.com/WZPwU8EURe

— Daniel Concannon (@TooWhiteToTweet) August 5, 2026

Just hearing about this dumb $20 burrito debate so just thought I’d make the losers on social media angry before going to bed.

Stop whining, get a job, eat Ramen like the rest of us did in college, on a budget with 4 roommates.

The market doesn’t care what you think something…

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) August 6, 2026

June 15, 2015.

It was the day before Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower and announced he was running for president. It is inarguable that prices were lower for virtually everything in America. The average national price of gasoline was $2.89 a gallon. Obama was negotiating the Iran nuclear deal. The national debt was approximately $18.5 trillion. It is currently racing toward $40 trillion.

Conservative pundits and politicians spent the whole day yesterday raging online against Millennials and Zoomers complaining about the price of burritos. The price of a Chipotle burrito bowl has doubled in the Golden Age from what it was when Obama was president. Portion sizes have shrunk. You get less food for more money at Chipotle in 2026. Fitness influencers complain about it all the time.

The average White family does it all – cooks at home, grills food, eats out at restaurants, eats fast food – and has experienced prices going up across the board. People who shop at Sam’s Club and Costco have seen prices go up. Most people buy the same things at the grocery store every week and aren’t imagining that prices are soaring. Sure, it is less expensive to eat at home than to eat out at restaurants, but that has always been true. It is more expensive to feed your family now period in the Golden Age. Whether you are grilling a steak at home or eating one at a restaurant, it still costs you are far more now.

Look how far we have come since the 2024 election. Conservatives blame Uber Eats and DoorDash for $20 burritos. They are sharing tips on eating Ramen noodles and stretching ground beef with refried beans. The same people who used to bash progressives with “you will eat the bugs” memes are basically pulling out granddaddy’s old cornpone and fatback recipes from the Great Depression.

Scott Greer assures us in Whitepill that conservatives have changed. I need to read the book. I’m not seeing it. If anything is true, we seem to be reverting to the conservatism that I remember.