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$100 Worth of Groceries Now Meme

This meme critiques rising grocery costs and declining purchasing power due to inflation. The top text reads 'This is how $100 in groceries is starting to fucking look'. The visual shows a small wooden table holding only a tiny bunch of bananas, four cherries, one small jar, and a single grocery bag, representing the entirety of groceries that $100 can buy in the current economy. Through the window behind the table, the classic enraged FFFUUU rage comic face appears next to repeated red text spelling out frustrated 'FFFFFUUUU' exclamations to emphasize anger at rising cost of living.
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This is how $100 in groceries is starting to fucking look

Overview

This meme critiques rising grocery costs and declining purchasing power due to inflation. The top text reads 'This is how $100 in groceries is starting to fucking look'. The visual shows a small wooden table holding only a tiny bunch of bananas, four cherries, one small jar, and a single grocery bag, representing the entirety of groceries that $100 can buy in the current economy. Through the window behind the table, the classic enraged FFFUUU rage comic face appears next to repeated red text spelling out frustrated 'FFFFFUUUU' exclamations to emphasize anger at rising cost of living.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme community. It is a remixed work that combines a background scene from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants with classic rage comic elements, created using the RageBuilder tool as indicated by the watermark at the bottom of the image. It circulates widely on social media to vent about rapidly growing grocery prices and general inflation affecting many regions globally.

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