How an increase in burrito price showed who really bears the brunt of inflation

Louie Herrera (left), a volunteer with Lakeview Pantry, helping Maria Criollo load grocery items into her car outside the pantry on Jan 24, in Lakeview, Chicago, Illinois, the United States. Photos: Raquel Zaldivar/Chicago Tribune/TNS

For a brief moment over the weekend, west suburban Hinsdale became the centre of an Internet viral moment involving inflation, burritos, wealth and privilege.

The scorn of social media users was focused on the lead anecdote of a Friday New York Times article about food inflation: A Hinsdale stock options trader voiced his annoyance with an increase in Chipotle’s burrito price. He walked out of the eatery after learning the price of a burrito was more than US$9 (RM38), when it previously hovered around US$8.50 (RM35.60).