I call it "pop," rarely "soda" and never "coke" (unless, of course, it is Coke). Then again, I very, very rarely drink the stuff anyway.

It's interesting, if you look at the map for for Alberta, what I assume to be Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton (it's hard to tell, since it's pretty distorted), all three are used in Calgary and Edmonton, while Red Deer apparently doesn't use "soda." (or, at least, no one who's responded does). Makes sense that you'd have more diversity in the larger cities.

For the most part, though, in North America "coke" is a southern thing, "pop" a northern thing and "soda" is all over, but mostly NE US.

Oh, and on the subject at hand: one lunch at Opa! or Subway, or part of a lunch at most sit-down restaurants. On the other hand, a normal, homemade lunch would be 3-6 lunches, I'd imagine.
Gah! You've obviously never tasted the difference between cane sugar rum and beet sugar rum... a mojito is not properly made unless it uses the former... :)

Rum's different, agreed. But rum is made from molasses (sometimes cane juice), not refined sugar. Refined sugar, such as is used in Mexican and artisan sodas, is pure sucrose, regardless of its origin.

I have a box of the latter within arm's reach and I'll definitely have to disagree with you on that. If you fully refine it - sure, you might end up with the same chemical... But WHY do so if it's so delicious raw (or semi-raw, I guess) *_* ?

I'm sorry for fixating this thread on food in general, but it's pretty natural that the issue of relative prices led here...
On topic (although I was fairly certain I've already posted this a long time ago 0_o) - a $5.99 GOG would be enough for a decent lunch, with enough change to get a drink. $9.99 would, accordingly, get me 2 lunches. So that's pretty in line with what others already said...

Oh, so THAT'S where Americans got the ridiculous idea that you can get fat from drinking from xD ! I was fairly certain you'd die from water poisoning sooner that gain any weight this way ;P.

I figured that out as soon as you mentioned the issue ;3.

Well, the discussion started with HFCS vs. sugar in sodas, so less refined forms of sugar like Demerara really are outside the scope of that question. To that point, refined beet sugar = refined cane sugar = chemically pure sucrose.

But in terms of less-refined edible (or not so edible) sugars, I agree, cane sugar has it all over beet sugar -- the German taste for Zuckerrübensirup notwithstanding.

Now I really want a Sonoran Hot Dog! I live in Phoenix but they aren't the same here as they are in Obregon. The best cart I found had 10-15 condiments so you could always change it up a bit.

And seriously, wrapping a hot dog in bacon why didn't we think of that! Don't even get me started on apple soda.

To answer the question though I could get 3-4 fast food lunches and 1 -1.5 lunches from my favorite sandwich shop. I don't eat out much as I would rather save that money for other things, GOGs for example.

0.75-1 lunch at a (decent) non-fastfood restaurant and and 1-1.5 at BK, McDonalds, KFC etc.

Typical local lunch of rice, some chicken or pork, and a bowl of soup would be roughly 10 lunches per one $9.99 gog.

Really nice lunch at a posh restaurant? I'd leave a $9.99 tip....

Interesting thread.

However, things work actually slightly different. Imagine one lunch "out" costs you, say, around 0.5 GOG. Sounds like "yay, you're doing well!".

Well, not really. As your salary would be enough to get around 25 such lunches? And than all your salay is gone.

Definitely not a "yay!".

This is why "Big Mac" index, however interesting it is, can not be used as a single measure for economic prosperity of the country. What do I mean by that? Well, obviously that "how much money can buy food" is not enough unless you include "how much money one gets".

Also, please, note I have NOT used my imagination to get those numbers. In other words. Those are ACTUAL figures.

GL to all.

I usually don't eat out, but getting a decent meal at a restaurant will set me back ~140sek. 1 USD is roughly 6½sek, so about 21.5 USD per meal, if I eat out. I don't know the exact price for a Big Mac right now (I'm not all that fond of McDonalds food, it is just so bland, and to get full I need to eat almost 2 Big Mac & co.), but if they cost 59sek, then that is about 9 USD, which is just bellow the price of a single "high priced" GOG game. If I make food for myself, it will be a lot cheaper. I like to make food in "bulk", that I can put in the freezer, so a single (good) home made meal will cost 20-30sek. I do tend to be rather ambitious with my cooking though, and if I really wanted to live cheap, I could probably get by with 10sek/meal.

Sweden is an expensive country to live in though. Not as bad as Norway, but still far above the European average.

Wtf, I hope you are kidding... or that that is not all you eat each day...

Typical lunch at a not-too-overpriced restaurant can go for about 19 PLN for one person so that's basically one $5.99 game for me if the currency exchange gods are feeling generous.

While Dieter is a German name, it has nothing to do with Diet, which in itself is Greek for a way of living. Makes me always think that "Diet" stuff is indeed made by sects. Especially if you add "light" stuff. I mean, really? You eat photons? What have those poor guys done to you?

Some of my fellow aussies have already had their say ;).
Imho depends what u want. Fastfood like Macca's Big Mac Meal of KFC burger meal around $7-$10 (its actually very hard to find a decent fish and chip shop these days - would be much cheaper then). Those famous Vietnamese breadshop pork or chicken rolls (U know the ones im talking about - they are allover Sydney..) around $5 and filling. Sit down corner/coffee shop type meals $8-$10.... imho its actually quite expensive here....
it gets very addictive if your not careful (or lazy......ive learned to byo lunch ie sandwiches etc)

1,5 really. A stupid sandwich that leaves you wanting more, a small packet of chips and a juice.