Andrew Gruel

Every single dish we know in America came out because it had a function, a working man's function.

Now we don't recognize that, right?

We think that food is just Instagram-worthy, but there was actually a function behind every famous American dish that was rooted in the working man, their family, and their routine and function.

Well, the genesis of this argument, which led to that article that you put up there, was that Brooke Rollins said you can feed people roughly on $15 a day.

And then Gillibrand came out and said, oh my gosh, you elites, you think people can eat on $15 a day?

So I said, here's a meal, $15 a day, three meals plus two snacks for one person, and I can change it up, right?

And it's great.

I posted my

my price calculus on there, the structure.

I did a little Excel spreadsheet.

Don't do that often.

It was nice.

And I got beat up.

Oh, cans are 13 cents where I'm from, not 11.

I did subsequent articles with individual dishes, but this is a good example right here because if you break this down, cost per person, this is $4.23, right?

It still fits within the $15 framework based on what you had for breakfast and lunch.

This is one meal that I also – I proceeded to keep putting evidence up there to shut people up.

But this was a braised chicken sausage rice dish, which if I did this exact dish, maybe I'd mount it with a little more butter at the end and sold it at my restaurant, put it in a nice bowl.

You could sell that for $29.99 in L.A.

One of the other things that people threw at me was, well, but look at your – and then they would post my restaurant menu.