So I got real autistic about this for a minute. $100 right? Well 25 lb bag of pancake mix costs $25. Now, how many people does that feed? Well, little google says it makes between 12-30 pancakes per pound. Ill be generous to Phil. And the good soldiers of Kiwistan. And make 12 good sized pancakes. Also ignoring eggs, because Ive worked at a place where we have eggless mix. Just add water. Im nice to the soldiers of Kiwistan, but im not their mother. Alright so 12 pancakes per pound. Times 25 pounds. Thats 300 pancakes. Now Im gonna be nice and give everyone 2 big pancakes. Thats 150 people. Already feeding a goddamn football team and their front office. But we have only spent $25. 150 times 4 is 600 people. According to Wikipedia, that is twice the minimum of a battalion. So, with a $100 dollars a day I could feed a small battalion poorly, but not super poorly. Or I could feed a company twice.
I could go to goddamn war with what Phil spends. Because $100 is his poverty level. So what I need to feed a company twice, isn't normally what he spends. So anything extra is just equipping them. Or feeding extra people. And whats more, is I found an expensive bag of mix. I could actually tighten up my budget and spend less feeding the amount of people it would take me to siege his gated community. And even if we let food through, he would somehow starve before my army.