mini-moan: £6 for some pâté on toast, you must be kidding

I actually proclaimed '£6 for some pate on toast, you must be kidding' when reading the menu at a restaurant about 18 months ago. When fellow guests ordered (much to my dismay) and their food arrived it transpired that the toast was a single slice of Tesco Value white loaf that had seen the inside of a toaster, and the pâté was 'wafer thin' I was right to be so disgusted.

What is up with restaurant prices these days? If it costs me £6 to buy the ingredients for making 20 portions of pâté on toast and with superior quality ingredients I might add, then it is outrageous for a restaurant buying ingredients at even lower cost to charge that for a single portion. I think you can probably buy a sofa in DFS for £6 on a Double Discount weekend.

I don't want to come across as a skinflint but it seems like people have forgotten the true value of things at the moment, especially when somebody told me they were charged about £4 for a single slice of quiche at a farm shop :O

So why am I suddenly bringing this up now? I don't know, must be bored I guess.