This is somewhat off the subject but when I use to go back to Lincoln in the eighties and nineties (I was living in Seattle) I thought it was so cheap to go out to eat. Somewhere around 2000 it caught up with the rest of the country. I no longer think of it as being any different than anyplace else. Small town Nebraska is another thing. When we are back in Mecca one of my good friends who now lives in Denver says “It is so cheap I can’t afford not to drink”