It’s quite remarkable how much ‘journalists’ rely on their dwindling audiences not understanding how things work. Take meal pricing based on ingredients, for example. As far as we can remember, this has always been based on how much of an ingredient was used. If a recipe calls for a tablespoon of mayonnaise, you calculate that as a portion of the cost of a full jar. Well, CNN says otherwise: you have to add in the full cost of the jar to get a single recipe’s true cost. Yes, that's an utterly ridiculous way to price meals.
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CNN remakes one of the “affordable” meals from RFK Jr.’s new cooking show. It should cost under $5 per serving, but what’s the real price point? @tomforemancnn reports. pic.twitter.com/7kvmaqa5cL
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) August 20, 2026
This makes zero sense.
— Snowdude (@BobSnowdude) August 21, 2026
Those items can be reused for many meals.
Does CNN try to be stupid?
No, it’s a natural side-effect of advanced Trump Derangement Syndrome.
RFK, Jr., called out CNN host Erin Burnett for airing the segment.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has so debilitated @ErinBurnett that she has abandoned both common sense and basic arithmetic.
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 21, 2026
CNN wants us to incorporate the full package price of every ingredient, regardless of what is used in the recipe.
If you put a squirt of ketchup on your… https://t.co/0vUy9yoJdC
(post continues) ...burger, would you be surprised if the restaurant charged you for the whole bottle?
The Real Food Show uses standard recipe costing: we count what the recipe actually uses. The rest stays in your kitchen for the next meal—and the meals after that.
Our goal is simple: help Americans reclaim their kitchens, cook healthy food without breaking the bank, and stock their pantries with high-quality ingredients they can use again and again.
That’s how we Make America Healthy Again.
You need a pantry. You need some of the staples at hand. That's the baseline that these CNNers cannot figure out. Really simple stuff.
Like RFK Jr or not, you need to figure out how to stock your pantry.
— Dave Van de Walle (@Area224) August 21, 2026
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Wow, that makes total sense.
Except to those who’ve had a steady diet of the legacy media’s ‘journalism.’
It’s false it’s cost $5. There’s no supermarket that’s sells the olive oil mayonnaise by a spoon; or a quarter of an onion… you have to buy a $19.99 olive oil to get a spoon… pic.twitter.com/kO4QBHet3K
— Conchi (@conchi_gonzalez) August 20, 2026
But you’re not using the entire bottle of olive oil, you’re just using a spoonful so for that recipe, it only costs the spoonful.
— Andrew1776 (@1776Andrew) August 21, 2026
Using this absurd logic your first meal using the olive oil you would have to include the full bottle price then for the next thirty+ meals you used the olive oil in it would cost nothing.
— LorieByrd (@LorieByrd) August 21, 2026
The idea is you use that olive oil mayonnaise again and again for other recipes. And you're going to use the other three-quarters of the onion for other recipes.
Magazines have been calculating it this way ever since I can remember; they'll say this is how much this meal costs, knowing you're going to use those ingredients for other meals as well.
— Diane (@SoCalValleyGal) August 21, 2026
Have people who trust CNN been buying a bottle of ketchup for one recipe and then trashing the 99 percent full bottle?
Posters jokingly say CNN didn’t go far enough to calculate the true cost of a meal at home.
Why didn't they include the price of the range they used to cook the meal, the refrigerator they stored things in, the price of the car they drove to the store this meal cost several hundred dollars per serving!
— Tom Lankford (@TomLankford3) August 21, 2026
They even forgot to mention the price of gas that day, and how far the trip was…
— Garrett H (@GarrettHR825) August 21, 2026
Totally ridiculous
The water they used to clean the vegetables with, the cost of the flatware and silverware you need to eat them, hell why not include the rent or mortgage price of the home it was eaten in?
— prime.206 (@206Lando) August 21, 2026
Don't forget the house you prepared the meal in. Shouldn't that be included? Let's add a years' worth of utilities taxes and maintenance. For that matter, if your job required a college education, we need to add that to the tab. This meal could easily cost over $1 million
— Just Watching the BS (@WatchingBs) August 21, 2026
Wow, who knew the recipe for a ‘Million Dollar Burger’ could end up costing a cool million? Did we do the math right, CNN?