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.
There are many bottled beverages, including water, that cost significantly more than gasoline.
I remember watching a History Guy vid a while back talking about this.That's OK. Lobster wasn't considered an expensive food at all before about a century and a quarter ago.
And now you know!
There are many bottled beverages, including water, that cost significantly more than gasoline.
Activated carbon filters will remove PFASs, as will RO.I wonder if the guys in the long white coats are testing foo foo water for PFAS like they are tap water? Also, do water filters like PUR remove PFAS?
Sea spiders… I worked on a lobster boat one summer and got to keep any that had one claw.Lobsters and crabs, oh my. These are a few of my favorite things.
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!
I eaten lots of one claw (culs) still great foodSea 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 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...
Lobsters and crabs, oh my. These are a few of my favorite things.
Sea spiders… I worked on a lobster boat one summer....
I cant look at grocery prices anymore and if I do self checkout I dont look, I just tap or swipe the card.
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...
That $90 would of got you how many more bag of food..?Every trip to the market is $90 or higher. That's after promo or coupons.
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.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.
Yes sir, Sounds about right.Lady in front of me spen't $13 on two boxes of cereal. 🤔
Lady in front of me spen't $13 on two boxes of cereal. 🤔
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.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.