Suze Orman Goes Full Circle, Warns Against Spending Money on 'Circle K' Gas Station Burritos as Retirement Crisis Deepens
Financial guru Suze Orman has sparked a firestorm of viral memes after she warned millennials and Gen Z that buying a gas station burrito at Circle K could single-handedly derail their retirement plans. In a new podcast clip, Orman declared, "You think a $3.50 burrito is harmless? That's $127,000 you're flushing away in compound interest!" The internet immediately responded by pointing out that Circle K does not, in fact, sell hot food in many locations, and that the real irony is Orman still using a 1994 example to explain 2024 inflation. Memes now show Suze as a ghost haunting a 7-Eleven, whispering "That's not an investment" to anyone holding a taquito. The hashtag #SuzeOrmanBurritoWatch is trending, with users creating spreadsheets calculating how many decades of burrito savings it would take to afford a down payment on a cardboard box.