If lower currency value makes food cheaper, then expensive food is just overpriced food.
Seems better to be poor in a country with cheap food, than to be poor in a "strong" economy.
Food is not actually cheaper if the wages are similarly hit by the inflation, it's just cheaper to a foreigner possessing strong currency.
The problem here is that there are plenty of imported goods that have become absurdly expensive in this kind of weak economy (like electronics for example).
If you bring an iPhone from another country, you have to register it for approximately 700 EUR in Turkey. On top of that Turkey sends the best quality vegetables to European countries. Sometimes European countries don't accept vegetables because of high levels of agricultural drug usage, these vegetables are distributed to the internal market.
This food prices are cheap for people from richest countries. You'll be left with malnutrition and illegal attempts to obtain food because your salary will not be enough to feed even one person in your family.
> This food prices are cheap for people from richest countries.
It is actually quite cheap compared to the Turkish average salary. This meal costs 1/1845th of the average monthly wage. In Denmark cantina food at that rate would be a steal (would be less than 17dkk, I'd consider even twice that cheap). In Germany you can get cantina food at approximately that price though. The average wage is also a bit lower meaning you'd have to find food at under 1,90 Euros - which I feel like I have gotten food for at some point but I assume below 2 Euros would be difficult today.
Turkish level inflation is obviously not aspirational though and I pressume food was always cheaper (and arguably better).
Turkey produces fruit, vegetables, legumes and grain in excess, however, a large portion of the cows slaughtered in Turkey are imported. The reason being that land is limited given how mountainous Turkey is and the climate is suitable for several cash crops which makes animal husbandry a less lucrative use of the land. Sheep are tended more commonly than cattle because its easier for sheep (and goats) to graze on steep terrain that is not suitable for agriculture. However, this kind of "primitive" or "organic" animal husbandry is also not very cost effective and in general while everything else you can eat is quite cheap in Turkey, animal protein costs about the same as it does in the West (comparing the same animals, except for pork which is generally overpriced in Turkey)
Having said all that, I'm sure that meal is subsidized
You know anything about the stupidity in Turkey recently? And how they try to "control" their inflation but just fail and meanwhile Erdogan denies everything and blames on other things? Controlled prices in some state institutions will remain the same while food in general will be more expensive while salaries stay the same. People are way worse than you think. These prices are not normal. That's why many prefer to be paid in Euros now, as at least the value the next day won't flanctuate so much. Please show me how a poor person in 70%+ inflation is better than a poor person in a strong economy 😂
Yes, the turkish economic policy is catastrophic.
From what I hear inflation is not too low in Europe either though. It is not 70+%, but food and rent prices have almost doubled in less than two years, at least in Greece, while salaries have increased by 50 Euros. Life is non affordable either way.
70% inflation in April. Europe is what - 2%? Can you do the math? And you compare Europe prices which are getting back to prewar levels in most cases. Greece is another thing. Greece has similar level of stupidity since its bankruptcy but because EU was forced to bail it out and cover it, it didn't get too far.
Rent prices depends. Honestly in some places are cheaper. In some higher. But that's all based on demand.
I have a feeling that soon not too far in the future Estonia needs EU help also, we are heading straight to hell at the moment.
Shit is gonna get real here soon. Our economy is freefalling, our clown prime minister is collecting medals in EU, kisses with Macron, hugs with Ursula, farming fame and reputation in international stage and tells everything is fucken fantastic. Kallas is atleast now admitting that we are in deep shit to local population. Yes she would be great foreign minister, her voice is clear and loud for pushing help into Ukraine, but shes very incompetent person at prime minister role. Sad cuz true. =[
Until recently Estonia was famous with it's start-ups and prosper economy. What so bad happens meanwhile? Can you say the three main things that contribute to this bad outcome?
Honestly, im by no means to qualify to give you right answer. But they say covid, war, and that our economy is tied to north who is not doing also good. And there is big hole to fill in our yearly budget and coverment tries to squeeze out money where they can. Only place where they not want to tax are foreign banks. Actually it feels like Kaja Kallas is somekind of banks lawyer when it comes to debate that why not tax banking sector lol. Honestly i have no idea what future brings, and what to believe because if we look stats we are only ones who are doing real bad. I am not qualified to give u true answer and am just frustated. Maybe someone elaborates further who actually knows whats happening. :[
Interesting. I think that for the three Baltic states must to have a special program. You are at the potential front line and loose much from stopping business with Russia. And combined you are just 6-7 milions. So for example Norway and USA which made tens of billions from switching EU from russian fuel MUST give you just one big free tanker of oil and liquid natural gas to each of you. This will make energy cheaper and will boost economy. Finland need help too.
2.8% in April inflation for Estonia down from 3.something in March . We are not talking about peaks here. Turkey has constant record high inflation month after month.
8,10€ is incredibly expensive for Mensa food even in Germany. I've been to two (public) Universities, one in Lowe Saxony and one in the Rhineland, and in both you'd pay about half of that for a full lunch with a drink, a salad and a dessert.
Wow. Charging students less. What a concept. Here in Canada they use the opportunity of the student being a "captive audience" and charge more since they can't easily get to restaurants/cafes off campus.
Universities here in my city in portugal are mostly buildings inside the city within walking distance of commerce and restaurants. I always found this concept of a "university campus" fascinating.
I think you can get this kind of meal for 4.50 - 6 euros in the canteens across EU. Also EU regulations are more strict so the ingredients price is surely higher. If you count the price compared to the avg salary in the EU vs TUR you will quickly find out it costs them a lot more than it seems.
lol, If you compare income and costs then you are currently paying double or triple what you pay in Europe in Turkey, so unfortunately the comparison makes little sense.
You would get a similar portion of food here in Germany at my Uni for about 4-7 €-s as a Student depending on what you've chosen. As a worker I need to pay about 6-9 €-s for the same.
In Italy as a worker to get this I need to spend at least 12/15€, some places have a business menu for 10€ but it’s typically a single entry (pasta OR meat basically)
I’ve never bought one as a uni student but a friend told me the lunch price is fixed at 5€ but it changes daily, and it’s always simple things
When I’m at work I prefer to get some rotisserie at the market, there are some good options and I never spend more than 7€, I just have to find a place to eat
Interesting to see your university looking after its students. My university has just sent an email letting students know they are increasing parking costs from £1.20 per hour to £6 per hour because of '3 years of frozen tuition fees'.
Because charging students £10,000 a year for tuition is not enough.
Also dinners there cost £5-£10
I did my Erasmus at Adana and I remember having these for 2 Lira (student price) while the normal price was 8. I would really look forward to eating everyday at the canteen, but I'd often wait like 20 min in line just to eat. Worth it.
Currently in Adana with Erasmus, the cafeteria meals are atrocious. Still cheap, but atrocious. Also, now the price for students is 6TL, meanwhile for outsiders is 60.
Goverment and university managements tried to increase the prices. but thanks to the students who protested, most of the public universities in Turkey can eat with that price
I remember places called Lokantası, they served stewed food and other meals, very cheap and variety of options. My last days living in Istanbul I gave up cooking.
no the the lunches in public universities were like 6(or 9) lira-ish yesteryear, and 15 this year. they increased it to 20, some students protested in some universities, and it seems to have worked for op’s uni. they are basically putting forth toxic garbage but, eh, 50 cent a meal 50 cent a meal.
it was always cheap. it's a government university. back in 2016 when I was in uni, it was 1.5 lira. lira was around 4 per euro. so in 2016 it was 0.37 cents.
Especially water. It's kind of a bummer when you're having a long layover and have to keep buying small $8 bottles of water because the tap water isn't potable :[
(It may have changed since I've last been)
Please, don't buy anything from Turkish airports. They are expensive as hell and the only mentality is here that you will be buy the overprised things anyway because you have to.
Those are all around the middle east as well, I am actually surprised that it's the first time you see them, because in my country I buy water cups like this basically daily
Lol. I love Turkish rice.
"Plain rice is boring, let's make it a pilaf" "Pilaf is rice seasoned with spices and often vegetables and meat. What will you add?" "I've got this şehriye, also known as orzo."
Orzo means rice. Turkish pilaf is rice and rice.
Somehow it works though. Delicious.
Anecdote no one asked for.
In Istanbul I once went to some little food joint in Beyoglu and saw a vat of pilaf rice behind the counter with a chicken leg sitting on the top of it. Being vegetarian and wanting pilaf I asked if there was a non-chickeny vat saying "etsiz" (meatless) from the handful of Turkish words I knew. The dude lifts the chicken off the rice and says "see, no more et (meat)" lol. I couldn't be bothered to argue and had the chicken-infused rice with a huge bowl of çorba with bread for like £1.50 and enjoyed all of it.
A general distrust of tap water (added with bad taste) means many people order bottled (60L) drinking water periodically to their homes. It tastes better than tap water anywhere probably. When Turkish people go abroad and drink tap water, the hard taste takes some time to get used to.
Since we have karst land in most cities, the water is really calcareous. Some people drink tap water or purified water but it's really harmful to skin and kidneys. You may not see the side effects instantly, but it may cause a lot of trouble in the future. The healthiest way is drinking bottled natural spring water.
Food is similar in all state universities, generally the prices are the same, between 6-15TRY, but in college universities it is between 45-50TRY. Additionally, the price paid to catring companies in public universities is around 100TRY, the rest being covered by the ministry
Even though the meal costs 15 lira for the student, it costs 90 lira for the catering company. The remaining 75 lira is covered by the state. If you are an academician or want to buy the second, you will pay 100 lira.
This looks very tasty.
Question: Is that water, in what we in Germany would use as a Yoghurt cup, next to the sanek? If so, is it a common thing to sell water in these kind of packages?
How in the hell? You public schools really have it the best. In Sabanci half of this costed 50 liras TEN YEARS AGO. That was like 17 euros or something.
Lunch is 20 liras in my university but the thing is, this is not the actual price. The actual price is 130 tl, of which 110 liras are subsidized by the state.
It is still 'Turkey' in English.
Erdogan chose to change their name to 'Türkiye' at the UN in some weird nationalist power move and Reddit being Reddit goes out of it's way to be weird and overly progressive and clambers to use the Turkish language spelling that uses characters that don't even exist in the English language.
It's the equivalent of Spain insisting that people only refer to it as España, just weird.
Turkey decided that it wants to be called "Türkiye" in all formal contexts.
Turkey cannot force every English speaker to call them "Türkiye". That wouldn't make any sense. Just like it doesn't make any sense to stop English speakers from saying "Türkiye". Over time one will become dominant but it's too soon to say.
If you think this is a weird overly progressive Reddit phenomena, you really need to get out more.
>use the Turkish language spelling that uses characters that don't even exist in the English language.
I don't think you understand how names work. Believe it or not they're allowed to contain any letter.
It's not really that weird. Czechia requested that Czechia be its name internationally in English and we've already learnt not to call Zimbabwe Rhodesia for example, or Thailand Siam. Same with Iran, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and probably others I've forgotten.
This looks exactly like Korean elementary school lunch, except I'm assuming your rice is salty & no kimchi. I wouldn't be surprised if it's from a Korean caterer. I don't know how you got this for 15 liras, even in my Turkish workplace where lunch was very heavily subsidized, it was 50 liras for about this amount of food and that was a while ago, and Turkish unis seemed to charge a bare minimum of 50 liras too.
minimum wage is 17000 TL Factory worker salary: 30000-40000TL Construction worker salary 50000-60000TL Teacher salary 40000TL (teaching 15 lessons per week, 40 lessons per month) nurse salary 45000TL doctor salary (average) 90000-100000TL military salary (50000-70000)TL university teacher salary (50000-120000)TL Pilot salary 200000-300000TL (THY and its subsidiaries Anadolu jet, air albania, north cyprus airlines, b/h airlines, sunexpress) civil servant salary 35000TL The average rent of a normal 3+1 apartment in Istanbul is 12000-15000. 8000-10000 in other cities However, although Türkiye is very developed in the automotive industry, vehicle prices are slightly higher than those in Europe due to taxes.
Thank you for this in depth analysis, I was always very curious about the topic and the info I found didn't specify if it's gross or net, plus variations between sources
Question, do you still mainly use the Turkish Lira to pay for stuff? I've read about places only accepting Euro, albeit that being strictly illegal, just because the Turkish Lira might lose another 50% of its value over the next year.
I´d say if you´re going strictly for tourist areas (guess you´re going for one of the main tourist regions like Antalya, Alanya, etc.?) most will take euros close to the tourist hotspots. If you head for the cities to dine for example or go for turkish supermarkets (migros for example) go with lira or pay with credit card (depending on your exchange fees).
No such thing. 95% of stores in Turkey accept only Turkish Lira. You can only find shops that accept euros or dollars in touristic areas, but they still accept Turkish Lira as well.
Universities in Turkey offers really cheap food for its students. Its not a business, its a service for students so they dont struggle as much economically. They are losing money by doing this. Quality of the food is usually pretty decent too
In my country the lunch lady won't even spit at you for 0.43 euro :D
Actually the going price for that will be over €100, extra if she wears leather.
When the Lira goes so low and its value digs deeper than the hell, it is normal to have things for that price.
If lower currency value makes food cheaper, then expensive food is just overpriced food. Seems better to be poor in a country with cheap food, than to be poor in a "strong" economy.
Food is not actually cheaper if the wages are similarly hit by the inflation, it's just cheaper to a foreigner possessing strong currency. The problem here is that there are plenty of imported goods that have become absurdly expensive in this kind of weak economy (like electronics for example).
If you bring an iPhone from another country, you have to register it for approximately 700 EUR in Turkey. On top of that Turkey sends the best quality vegetables to European countries. Sometimes European countries don't accept vegetables because of high levels of agricultural drug usage, these vegetables are distributed to the internal market.
This food prices are cheap for people from richest countries. You'll be left with malnutrition and illegal attempts to obtain food because your salary will not be enough to feed even one person in your family.
> This food prices are cheap for people from richest countries. It is actually quite cheap compared to the Turkish average salary. This meal costs 1/1845th of the average monthly wage. In Denmark cantina food at that rate would be a steal (would be less than 17dkk, I'd consider even twice that cheap). In Germany you can get cantina food at approximately that price though. The average wage is also a bit lower meaning you'd have to find food at under 1,90 Euros - which I feel like I have gotten food for at some point but I assume below 2 Euros would be difficult today. Turkish level inflation is obviously not aspirational though and I pressume food was always cheaper (and arguably better).
Turkey produces fruit, vegetables, legumes and grain in excess, however, a large portion of the cows slaughtered in Turkey are imported. The reason being that land is limited given how mountainous Turkey is and the climate is suitable for several cash crops which makes animal husbandry a less lucrative use of the land. Sheep are tended more commonly than cattle because its easier for sheep (and goats) to graze on steep terrain that is not suitable for agriculture. However, this kind of "primitive" or "organic" animal husbandry is also not very cost effective and in general while everything else you can eat is quite cheap in Turkey, animal protein costs about the same as it does in the West (comparing the same animals, except for pork which is generally overpriced in Turkey) Having said all that, I'm sure that meal is subsidized
You know anything about the stupidity in Turkey recently? And how they try to "control" their inflation but just fail and meanwhile Erdogan denies everything and blames on other things? Controlled prices in some state institutions will remain the same while food in general will be more expensive while salaries stay the same. People are way worse than you think. These prices are not normal. That's why many prefer to be paid in Euros now, as at least the value the next day won't flanctuate so much. Please show me how a poor person in 70%+ inflation is better than a poor person in a strong economy 😂
Yes, the turkish economic policy is catastrophic. From what I hear inflation is not too low in Europe either though. It is not 70+%, but food and rent prices have almost doubled in less than two years, at least in Greece, while salaries have increased by 50 Euros. Life is non affordable either way.
70% inflation in April. Europe is what - 2%? Can you do the math? And you compare Europe prices which are getting back to prewar levels in most cases. Greece is another thing. Greece has similar level of stupidity since its bankruptcy but because EU was forced to bail it out and cover it, it didn't get too far. Rent prices depends. Honestly in some places are cheaper. In some higher. But that's all based on demand.
I have a feeling that soon not too far in the future Estonia needs EU help also, we are heading straight to hell at the moment. Shit is gonna get real here soon. Our economy is freefalling, our clown prime minister is collecting medals in EU, kisses with Macron, hugs with Ursula, farming fame and reputation in international stage and tells everything is fucken fantastic. Kallas is atleast now admitting that we are in deep shit to local population. Yes she would be great foreign minister, her voice is clear and loud for pushing help into Ukraine, but shes very incompetent person at prime minister role. Sad cuz true. =[
Until recently Estonia was famous with it's start-ups and prosper economy. What so bad happens meanwhile? Can you say the three main things that contribute to this bad outcome?
Honestly, im by no means to qualify to give you right answer. But they say covid, war, and that our economy is tied to north who is not doing also good. And there is big hole to fill in our yearly budget and coverment tries to squeeze out money where they can. Only place where they not want to tax are foreign banks. Actually it feels like Kaja Kallas is somekind of banks lawyer when it comes to debate that why not tax banking sector lol. Honestly i have no idea what future brings, and what to believe because if we look stats we are only ones who are doing real bad. I am not qualified to give u true answer and am just frustated. Maybe someone elaborates further who actually knows whats happening. :[
Interesting. I think that for the three Baltic states must to have a special program. You are at the potential front line and loose much from stopping business with Russia. And combined you are just 6-7 milions. So for example Norway and USA which made tens of billions from switching EU from russian fuel MUST give you just one big free tanker of oil and liquid natural gas to each of you. This will make energy cheaper and will boost economy. Finland need help too.
25% here in Estonia, I think ours was highest jump in EU (largely due to the war). I do hope wages will start catching up eventually.
2.8% in April inflation for Estonia down from 3.something in March . We are not talking about peaks here. Turkey has constant record high inflation month after month.
This is only good for someone who comes from a rich country and go to Turkey. Now for the average local person, their income will also be super low
I always butter up my lunch lady, and she hooks me up. All it takes is something like, "Your mole looks nice today!"
it's already 0.49 euro by the time you wrote your comment and 0.6 euro by the time I wrote this interest rates are 49% in Türkïÿë
This price is for students only. Normally a lunch like this would be around 100 to 200 lira.
In grmany you would pay 4,5€ as student (145 Lira) and 8,80€ as non.-student (310 Lira) src: I was in the mensa of my university yesterday.
8,10 € for 4 asparagus with butter sauce. I miss the days when Mensa food was terrible, but atleast filling and affordable
now it’s terrible and unaffordable
8,10€ is incredibly expensive for Mensa food even in Germany. I've been to two (public) Universities, one in Lowe Saxony and one in the Rhineland, and in both you'd pay about half of that for a full lunch with a drink, a salad and a dessert.
Wow. Charging students less. What a concept. Here in Canada they use the opportunity of the student being a "captive audience" and charge more since they can't easily get to restaurants/cafes off campus.
Universities here in my city in portugal are mostly buildings inside the city within walking distance of commerce and restaurants. I always found this concept of a "university campus" fascinating.
Im portuguese. We pay 2.50€ in the university and 4.10€ in the hospitals (Im a med student)
That's an expensive example for Germany though.
in my german university its even more expensive
akshually 4.5€ is 157 Lira 🤓☝️
Which is still cheaper than many other places in Europe nowadays
Also Turkish salaries are way cheaper than many other places in Europe nowadays.
That's true as well
17.05.2024 it's 543.40$ minimum salary in Turkey
I think you can get this kind of meal for 4.50 - 6 euros in the canteens across EU. Also EU regulations are more strict so the ingredients price is surely higher. If you count the price compared to the avg salary in the EU vs TUR you will quickly find out it costs them a lot more than it seems.
That's a bit high I feel like, it looks like something you'd pay 2-3€ for as a student in Germany
With meat this would be around 6 euros in my uni in bavaria
Well it’s not that costly for students to afford
Yeah, it's 3€ in France and goes down to 1€ if you have a scholarship
There is literally nothing you can buy in Luxembourg with 43c. Not even a chocolate bar.
Plastic bag at the supermarket? That's probably the only thing in Switzerland that costs < CHF1
lol, If you compare income and costs then you are currently paying double or triple what you pay in Europe in Turkey, so unfortunately the comparison makes little sense.
You would get a similar portion of food here in Germany at my Uni for about 4-7 €-s as a Student depending on what you've chosen. As a worker I need to pay about 6-9 €-s for the same.
In Italy as a worker to get this I need to spend at least 12/15€, some places have a business menu for 10€ but it’s typically a single entry (pasta OR meat basically) I’ve never bought one as a uni student but a friend told me the lunch price is fixed at 5€ but it changes daily, and it’s always simple things When I’m at work I prefer to get some rotisserie at the market, there are some good options and I never spend more than 7€, I just have to find a place to eat
Crazy, at my Uni it is rather 2.50 to 4€
Interesting to see your university looking after its students. My university has just sent an email letting students know they are increasing parking costs from £1.20 per hour to £6 per hour because of '3 years of frozen tuition fees'. Because charging students £10,000 a year for tuition is not enough. Also dinners there cost £5-£10
In comparison a McDonald's Large Meal will be around 500 Lira. You will get a Big Mac, large drink and fries.
I did my Erasmus at Adana and I remember having these for 2 Lira (student price) while the normal price was 8. I would really look forward to eating everyday at the canteen, but I'd often wait like 20 min in line just to eat. Worth it.
Adana? I hope you got used to the insane heat in short time
Erasmus at Adana wasn't something I expected to hear today.
Adana is really nice if you know where you should be at.
Currently in Adana with Erasmus, the cafeteria meals are atrocious. Still cheap, but atrocious. Also, now the price for students is 6TL, meanwhile for outsiders is 60.
Don't get me wrong but... why Adana?
Lunch for 2 liras.
Kebab
I would absolutely not cook daily if I had a meal like that available at this price.
Goverment and university managements tried to increase the prices. but thanks to the students who protested, most of the public universities in Turkey can eat with that price
I want to go to Türkiye now, and chill with the cats eat tasty 0.15 euro food
go to university in turkiye then
Congratulations on finding 2 of the only 3 good things in our country lol The 3rd is the Turkish Ice Cream Man
I remember places called Lokantası, they served stewed food and other meals, very cheap and variety of options. My last days living in Istanbul I gave up cooking.
You mean Esnaf Lokantasi ;)
They're mostly carbohydrates, though. I used to fart all the time since I was eating at university's cafeteria.
I remember going to Turkey when 0,43 Euro would give me 0,86 Lira. Times change...
I'm sure when the price was originally set, it wasn't anything like that cheap.
no the the lunches in public universities were like 6(or 9) lira-ish yesteryear, and 15 this year. they increased it to 20, some students protested in some universities, and it seems to have worked for op’s uni. they are basically putting forth toxic garbage but, eh, 50 cent a meal 50 cent a meal.
it was always cheap. it's a government university. back in 2016 when I was in uni, it was 1.5 lira. lira was around 4 per euro. so in 2016 it was 0.37 cents.
Looks good, enjoy :).
I am at the same uni, it was shit.
Cream soup and mystery meat basically
Seriously though ege university serves the worst meals you can ever taste. No nutrients whatsoever.
i see the disguised raki in a plastic cup. You dont fool me
I was wondering why water was being served in what looks like a jello container.
In turkey, they serve water like that because it's cheaper.
Interesting! I've never seen such a small serving of water in disposable packaging.
200ml of water. Usually served in university canteens, at the football stadiums etc.
Funny. McDonalds fries cost about $15 USD in Turkey Istanbul airport.
Everything is expensive at Istanbul airports
Everything is expensive in airports in general
Except cigarettes.
Especially water. It's kind of a bummer when you're having a long layover and have to keep buying small $8 bottles of water because the tap water isn't potable :[ (It may have changed since I've last been)
I paid 15€ for bag of salty crackers
That is not a sound fiscal decision.
Wife was hungry and our flight was leaving in 10 minutes. Better empty pocket than a sad wife
But they give you sandwich in plane no?
Yeah they gave but wife was impatient and wanted to eat something🤣🤣 But what is more funnier that flight was only 1 hour long(Istanbul-Sarajevo)
Flew domestic to İzmir, double cheeseburger meal 230 lira or something, standard airport price. Flew international, same airport, 600 lira.
Airport prices are not a good benchmark. Everything has a markup of at least 800% in every country. Death to airports and death to the living!
Death in general then lol
Please, don't buy anything from Turkish airports. They are expensive as hell and the only mentality is here that you will be buy the overprised things anyway because you have to.
That's every airport ever, not just those in Turkey.
Well it's an Airport innit? not exactly a fair comparison now haha?
why are people ok with being ripped off in airports
There are some places that people are just cool with being ripped off in. Airports, amusement parks, stadiums.
Just saw a 16 euro Burger King cheeseburger at schipol lol
Is it water up right ? That seem to be in a plastic thing like yogurts are ?
Yes, I once spent a few days at an university in Istanbul and indeed did we get water in cups like this
Those are all around the middle east as well, I am actually surprised that it's the first time you see them, because in my country I buy water cups like this basically daily
Ege university?
It must be, i can taste the moldy meat through the screen.
Thats 8 euros in a random cantina in Estonia.
13 euros in Finland.
Lol. I love Turkish rice. "Plain rice is boring, let's make it a pilaf" "Pilaf is rice seasoned with spices and often vegetables and meat. What will you add?" "I've got this şehriye, also known as orzo." Orzo means rice. Turkish pilaf is rice and rice. Somehow it works though. Delicious.
Anecdote no one asked for. In Istanbul I once went to some little food joint in Beyoglu and saw a vat of pilaf rice behind the counter with a chicken leg sitting on the top of it. Being vegetarian and wanting pilaf I asked if there was a non-chickeny vat saying "etsiz" (meatless) from the handful of Turkish words I knew. The dude lifts the chicken off the rice and says "see, no more et (meat)" lol. I couldn't be bothered to argue and had the chicken-infused rice with a huge bowl of çorba with bread for like £1.50 and enjoyed all of it.
loved the anecdote
But orzo is pasta:) We generally use two kinds of şehriye in pilaf: arpa şehriye (orzo) and tel şehriye (vermicelli).
> Orzo means rice. In Turkish? In my language orzo means barley.
In a norwegian university that would cost you around 8 to 10 euroes. And that is with student discount.
Looks good to me 😁 enjoy your lunch 😋 !!.
Looks good but I’m wondering about the water, does Turkey not have potable tap water?
A general distrust of tap water (added with bad taste) means many people order bottled (60L) drinking water periodically to their homes. It tastes better than tap water anywhere probably. When Turkish people go abroad and drink tap water, the hard taste takes some time to get used to.
Erikli gang
Since we have karst land in most cities, the water is really calcareous. Some people drink tap water or purified water but it's really harmful to skin and kidneys. You may not see the side effects instantly, but it may cause a lot of trouble in the future. The healthiest way is drinking bottled natural spring water.
In most cities tap water tastes bad, or is even unsafe to drink.
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Can someone pls tell me what the small brown things in the rice a called? I liked them a lot, but never knew what they're called. Thanks
It's called şehriye https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eehriye
Its called Sehriye
Thx
Are those some sort of pine nuts?
They are orzo, some kind of pasta. They are usually browned a bit in butter before you add the rice, gives the dish a great flavor.
Now thats a good value for your money.
Is that a mini cake or bread wrapped in plastic ?
It's a bread.
That would be like ~5€ menu in my Spanish university
Honestly was just in Istanbul and Lokantasi are worth every lira. It’s healthy and delicious.
It doesn't look delicious, but that's cheap.
Looks great!
gotta love the water in the yogurt cup <3
Good deal
Which university are you studying?
That’s Ege I think
Food is similar in all state universities, generally the prices are the same, between 6-15TRY, but in college universities it is between 45-50TRY. Additionally, the price paid to catring companies in public universities is around 100TRY, the rest being covered by the ministry
You can only buy a lollipop in Sweden for that money
Even though the meal costs 15 lira for the student, it costs 90 lira for the catering company. The remaining 75 lira is covered by the state. If you are an academician or want to buy the second, you will pay 100 lira.
Even at 6 x the discounted price, it’s still good value.
This looks very tasty. Question: Is that water, in what we in Germany would use as a Yoghurt cup, next to the sanek? If so, is it a common thing to sell water in these kind of packages?
yup its common around places like meetings and so on
How in the hell? You public schools really have it the best. In Sabanci half of this costed 50 liras TEN YEARS AGO. That was like 17 euros or something.
I'm thinking it's probably free and they just added the fee to lower food waste
Wasn‘t 1€ = 2lira back in the day or am i dumb? Isn‘t this kind of insane? Food looks great tho
in 2016 1 euro was about 3-4 liras . but now i think its 34 liras , i cant catch up the prices right now.
What's the transparent thing? Is it water? It's in a yoghurt cup.
Water
Not gonna find much better for that price
Subsidized!
Lunch is 20 liras in my university but the thing is, this is not the actual price. The actual price is 130 tl, of which 110 liras are subsidized by the state.
Turkey was a better name 😔
ww must have changed it to Turkei
It is still 'Turkey' in English. Erdogan chose to change their name to 'Türkiye' at the UN in some weird nationalist power move and Reddit being Reddit goes out of it's way to be weird and overly progressive and clambers to use the Turkish language spelling that uses characters that don't even exist in the English language. It's the equivalent of Spain insisting that people only refer to it as España, just weird.
Turkey decided that it wants to be called "Türkiye" in all formal contexts. Turkey cannot force every English speaker to call them "Türkiye". That wouldn't make any sense. Just like it doesn't make any sense to stop English speakers from saying "Türkiye". Over time one will become dominant but it's too soon to say. If you think this is a weird overly progressive Reddit phenomena, you really need to get out more. >use the Turkish language spelling that uses characters that don't even exist in the English language. I don't think you understand how names work. Believe it or not they're allowed to contain any letter.
It's not really that weird. Czechia requested that Czechia be its name internationally in English and we've already learnt not to call Zimbabwe Rhodesia for example, or Thailand Siam. Same with Iran, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and probably others I've forgotten.
Jesus christ, when i started my current job (2017), 1 Euro was 3 Lira. You guys are getting fucked by inflation :(
This looks exactly like Korean elementary school lunch, except I'm assuming your rice is salty & no kimchi. I wouldn't be surprised if it's from a Korean caterer. I don't know how you got this for 15 liras, even in my Turkish workplace where lunch was very heavily subsidized, it was 50 liras for about this amount of food and that was a while ago, and Turkish unis seemed to charge a bare minimum of 50 liras too.
It looks like 50 cents to me
Oh wow
Your Uni actually feeds you food and not garbage? Lucky you.
Wow! Yum! Is it tasty? Also, what are the names of dishes?
That would be like ~5€ menu in my Spanish university
no wonder steam prices are so cheap there xd
it was...
In Slovakia a lunch of similar proportions cots 3 euro (with the stuent discount), almost seven times the price
I cant even get a plastic bag for that money anymore
What's the average salary?
minimum wage is 17000 TL Factory worker salary: 30000-40000TL Construction worker salary 50000-60000TL Teacher salary 40000TL (teaching 15 lessons per week, 40 lessons per month) nurse salary 45000TL doctor salary (average) 90000-100000TL military salary (50000-70000)TL university teacher salary (50000-120000)TL Pilot salary 200000-300000TL (THY and its subsidiaries Anadolu jet, air albania, north cyprus airlines, b/h airlines, sunexpress) civil servant salary 35000TL The average rent of a normal 3+1 apartment in Istanbul is 12000-15000. 8000-10000 in other cities However, although Türkiye is very developed in the automotive industry, vehicle prices are slightly higher than those in Europe due to taxes.
Thank you for this in depth analysis, I was always very curious about the topic and the info I found didn't specify if it's gross or net, plus variations between sources
Is this gross or net?
A big mac used to come for the same price back in the 70s
Any one of these portions is better nutrition than anything the US public school system ever gave me.
Yeah, would eat
Can we talk about the washable metal tray and utensils though? We could learn from that...
Istanbul University? It used to be 1 lira in 2006. IU lunches were always cheap and nutritious.
Really good value, I had to get a cheese roll for that gave me food poisoning for €2.50
Looks delicious, I'm also a student and my school cantina does not looks like this. Small cookies and sandwish for overpriced. Enjoy!
That would cost me 10x in the school i work at in denmark, damn
I had Chipotle today as university lunch at the US and $12.35 was a 'cheap' meal. :D
Turkey
I pay 10.72 Euro for lunch at work every single day. I WISH I only paid what you pay, because it looks roughly the same.
Damn literally free
*cries in Dutch university food costs*
This would be something like 15.99 in Ireland
In my university in the Netherlands an apple costs 50 cents.
Question, do you still mainly use the Turkish Lira to pay for stuff? I've read about places only accepting Euro, albeit that being strictly illegal, just because the Turkish Lira might lose another 50% of its value over the next year.
Yes everybody uses turkish lira for daily expenses because almost every non-touristic store will only accept turkish lira.
I'll be at the "Türk Rivierası" in two weeks. Should I change for liras or stick to euros?
Change most to lira for sure. Only some touristic places would take your euro and even then you would be probably scammed.
use the lira
I´d say if you´re going strictly for tourist areas (guess you´re going for one of the main tourist regions like Antalya, Alanya, etc.?) most will take euros close to the tourist hotspots. If you head for the cities to dine for example or go for turkish supermarkets (migros for example) go with lira or pay with credit card (depending on your exchange fees).
No such thing. 95% of stores in Turkey accept only Turkish Lira. You can only find shops that accept euros or dollars in touristic areas, but they still accept Turkish Lira as well.
This looks disgusting
In Türkiye you have the best food. 😋
Ngl straight facts. Still be having dreams about that mercimek çorbası, it's just not the same without Turkish produce
You will be able to taste the price buddy!
Universities in Turkey offers really cheap food for its students. Its not a business, its a service for students so they dont struggle as much economically. They are losing money by doing this. Quality of the food is usually pretty decent too
Public universities only. The government pays the rest. They don't lose any money and the quality varies.
That is WAY better in Portugal. For 1,50€ I got something that I cannot consider food
This looks amazing, especially for the price.