The off brand or store brand potato chips at my local stop and rob are $2/2oz. That's $16/#. The name brand chips are $2.50 to $3 for 2oz. No wonder there are so many potato chip brands and mfrs. Cha-Ching.
Potato chips cost more than lobster
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Not a lobster fan tat tall.....
There a few tater chips I like....
But my favorite is cheap, but it takes a little work. Homemade hot chips......send a russet through the slicer to get it thin.....then toss them is the fryer with peanut oil. You can make them a little soggy or crispy, however you like. Sprinkle with a little black pepper and serve with ranch dressing.....or whatever you like. Three medium sized russets is PLENTY for two people
There a few tater chips I like....
But my favorite is cheap, but it takes a little work. Homemade hot chips......send a russet through the slicer to get it thin.....then toss them is the fryer with peanut oil. You can make them a little soggy or crispy, however you like. Sprinkle with a little black pepper and serve with ranch dressing.....or whatever you like. Three medium sized russets is PLENTY for two people
That's OK. Lobster wasn't considered an expensive food at all before about a century and a quarter ago.
Historically, lobster used to be considered poor people food and prison food. It was plentiful and dirt cheap along coastal regions and thus people outside these circles wouldn't be caught dead eating them.
Cooking/canning of lobster meat made it a viable food source for military rations as well. This kinda helped cut down on the stigma of lobster meat a bit, since it could be made available beyond coastal areas. This was around the time of the Civil War.
Then, as transportation technology continued to advance (train technology) and people began to be able to travel
more affordably for leisure starting in the early 1900s, lobster as food aboard trains boomed. And that was when chefs discovered it was best cooked live... something else modern transportation technology allowed in regions far away from coastal areas.
The rise in popularity along with the shipping demands outside coastal regions was the start of the rise in cost of lobster meat.
And now you know!
Historically, lobster used to be considered poor people food and prison food. It was plentiful and dirt cheap along coastal regions and thus people outside these circles wouldn't be caught dead eating them.
Cooking/canning of lobster meat made it a viable food source for military rations as well. This kinda helped cut down on the stigma of lobster meat a bit, since it could be made available beyond coastal areas. This was around the time of the Civil War.
Then, as transportation technology continued to advance (train technology) and people began to be able to travel
more affordably for leisure starting in the early 1900s, lobster as food aboard trains boomed. And that was when chefs discovered it was best cooked live... something else modern transportation technology allowed in regions far away from coastal areas.
The rise in popularity along with the shipping demands outside coastal regions was the start of the rise in cost of lobster meat.
And now you know!
No kidding!
Potable water is available from the tap for what...$3 to $4 per thousand gallons?
And yet MILLIONS of people are perfectly happy to buy it for the equivalent rate of $12,800 per thousand gallons out of vending machines at $2 per 20 ounce bottle.
Perfectly happy, that is, while being totally p*ssed off about all the plastic pollution.
The people who came up with the idea of taking a resource that covers 3/4 of the face of the planet and reselling it for over 4,000 times the cost of delivering it by tap AND making people think it was better and more fashionable were effing geniuses.
Wish I had thought of it.
When I think of the processes to bring a gallon of milk to market vs. a gallon of gas, it just doesn't add up to me.
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In February 1990, French‐based Perrier voluntarily recalled 70 million bottles of water products after detecting abnormal traces of benzene. In addition to management problems associated with regulators, a scrutinising press and the consuming public, this industrial crisis led to at least $40 million in lost sales.
Sea spiders… I worked on a lobster boat one summer and got to keep any that had one claw.
I traded them in the neighborhood for real food — hot dogs, Hamburg, potato chips, candy,
I eaten lots of one claw (culs) still great food
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I cant look at grocery prices anymore and if I do self checkout I dont look, I just tap or swipe the card.But haven't you heard? Inflation and prices are going down?
Mt wife won't even let me look at the receipt anymore...
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The summer of 2001 I did an AT for medical support at Navy Special Warfare Group 4, stationed at Roosevelt Roads, PR. I was told I would stand 6-hour watches for sick call, the rest of the time was my own. What really happened: there was a joint task force for running down drug boats near PR...a navy patrol boat and a coast guard boat, with navy (boat crew, me, a handful of SEALs), coast guard, and DEA. There med guy had to go on leave, so they nabbed me. One boat would run a boat down or have it heave to or whatever it is they do (I have no idea. I am not a boat guy.), and the other would stand security. Anyhoo, we had a lot of down time. A LOT. So we'd frequently anchor in 20, 30 feet of water and dive for lobster and crabs and cook them for the crews. I am not a lobster guy, but those crabs. I still don't like lobster. Ugly critters.
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You really oughta take a look at prices as they ring up.
I was watching as a cashier rang up my stuff several years ago and I said "Whoa! Back up there a bit...how much is that apple?"
$3. One apple, $3.
One. Apple.
I said "Nope. Unless Idun herself grew that apple, I'm not paying $3 for it."
Those apples were NOT priced that high in the produce section and at the time I wasn't willing to wait around for a price check.
Snoopz
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Potato chips...yep they raise the price and reduce the content weight, most cases the bags are still the same size...they be playing games with us..love me some Utz BBQ chips " in" my ham & cheese san-wich, right betwix the ham and cheese, then smash em..
Lobster... some years ago we would go to Red Lobster, they had the "Rockzilla" Lobster tail, the cook back in the kitchen would take it, throw some crab meat, some Jamaican Jerk seasoning on it then cook it man was that good.
Dinner was Clam Chowder with melted cheese, 2dz ateamed oysters, 12oz NY strip blackened med rare, Rock Lobster Tail stuffed blackened, cheddar smashed tators (×2) and about 10+ 2oz. Pours of Grande Mariner...that was dinner.
The GM really never phased me.
Love me some seafood...
You guys are making me hungry.
Grocery prices...yeah did 45+ years of it.
Produce ...watermelon like .04 #, Bananas .06 or .08 # ... sugar 5# bag .49, .05 candy bar was 3-5x bigger than they are today. Gallon of bleach was a gallon, coffee was 1#,2#,3# and larger. by the #... could go on, look at cereal you got this big box with mostly air...like potato chips...then you got the wording "ultra, concentrated, etc" on laundry stuff, so you use less..in most cases how many people really do..notice I said "most cases "
-Snoooz
Lobster... some years ago we would go to Red Lobster, they had the "Rockzilla" Lobster tail, the cook back in the kitchen would take it, throw some crab meat, some Jamaican Jerk seasoning on it then cook it man was that good.
Dinner was Clam Chowder with melted cheese, 2dz ateamed oysters, 12oz NY strip blackened med rare, Rock Lobster Tail stuffed blackened, cheddar smashed tators (×2) and about 10+ 2oz. Pours of Grande Mariner...that was dinner.
The GM really never phased me.
Love me some seafood...
You guys are making me hungry.
Grocery prices...yeah did 45+ years of it.
Produce ...watermelon like .04 #, Bananas .06 or .08 # ... sugar 5# bag .49, .05 candy bar was 3-5x bigger than they are today. Gallon of bleach was a gallon, coffee was 1#,2#,3# and larger. by the #... could go on, look at cereal you got this big box with mostly air...like potato chips...then you got the wording "ultra, concentrated, etc" on laundry stuff, so you use less..in most cases how many people really do..notice I said "most cases "
-Snoooz
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Every trip to the market is $90 or higher. That's after promo or coupons.But haven't you heard? Inflation and prices are going down?
Mt wife won't even let me look at the receipt anymore...
Snoopz
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That $90 would of got you how many more bag of food..?
In fairness 2oz bags, those are the little single serving bags? It’s like soda, you can buy the single serving 20oz for $1.50 or a 2L for $1.79.
Bottled water vs gas prices are the one that really get me. It makes no sense other than because they can. People are stupid enough to keep buying the bottled water.
Bottled water vs gas prices are the one that really get me. It makes no sense other than because they can. People are stupid enough to keep buying the bottled water.
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I exaggerate but I watch the screen on the manned checkouts, not so much on the self checkout. A couple years ago, apples were higher then than they are now and we were checking out and some big winesaps or honeycrisps rang up at $4 each and I told her she could keep them.
Snoopz
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Yes sir, Sounds about right.
Would always remember when a size / pack change was coming especially in the cereal aisle
There would be all these delete tags, reduced prices, it was almost always a size change ( weight change ) Cereal wait till you see the prices of "natural cereal" in the organic / natural food section.
Anybody remember when "cube steak" was a poor person's meal?
-Snoopz
Up north we would have flank steak or beef diaphram, for dinners, inexpensive circa 1960's, today it is very expensive.
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Cereal...the solid equivalent of bottled water.
Snoopz
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Cereal..is like filler...pretty much like bread.
And bread is stupid priced
Pancake syrup cooked sugar water.
In fall after first frost was Turnips, Tators,
(from garden) with some ham hocks
Potato pancakes from left over mash tators
Sunday was roast beef day, left over beef was hash Monday
What was cheap eat n back then ain't now
-Snoopz
And bread is stupid priced
Pancake syrup cooked sugar water.
In fall after first frost was Turnips, Tators,
(from garden) with some ham hocks
Potato pancakes from left over mash tators
Sunday was roast beef day, left over beef was hash Monday
What was cheap eat n back then ain't now
-Snoopz
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MI had a law put into place that if something scanned up at the register higher than it was priced on the shelf, and you completed the purchase with it overpriced, you were entitled to 10x the difference up to $5 per type of item.
It was a good law, because it did encourage stores to price things right. if it was after some sale, and they were different UPC items of similar products, $5 per. you could get a lot of free groceries if the store wasn't keeping their tags current.
If the store refused to pay up (cash only, store credit did not substitute), you could go to small claims and get a few hundred dollars. for each instance.
I got into it with a radio shack store once, and the store manager refused to give me the "bounty", and their regional manager refused anything but store credit. I gave them a LOT of chances to make it right, even giving them the heads up of the law they were in violation of and the potential penalties, but they wouldn't budge. I got like $1500 after they defaulted on the small claims date.