Groceries are going insane

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the slightest conveniences during the Biden administration were blown out of proportion and the sky was falling. This man has literally put our country up for the highest bidder and we get comments akin to suck it up or it’s not so bad. The emperor is not only naked by screwing folks in the street.

There was a lot of food inflation during the Biden years. It wasn't slight inconvenience but genuinely real and quite high inflationary prices. Not Zimbabwean inflation but still noticeable. It was people like you who insisted it wasn't happening or it was only transitional or what was the big deal as you could afford it.

I mean it was transitional — covid caused worldwide inflation but it had slowed. It was people like you that voted for the orange menace out of pique and now we have inflation by choice.

Along with massive stimulus spending, much of which was unnecessary.

By your definition, all inflation is transitional. Even Weimar inflation. We had several years of persistent inflation that saw food prices go up sharply. And you're trying to blow this off while attacking Trump? Ok... pot calling kettle black!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the slightest conveniences during the Biden administration were blown out of proportion and the sky was falling. This man has literally put our country up for the highest bidder and we get comments akin to suck it up or it’s not so bad. The emperor is not only naked by screwing folks in the street.

There was a lot of food inflation during the Biden years. It wasn't slight inconvenience but genuinely real and quite high inflationary prices. Not Zimbabwean inflation but still noticeable. It was people like you who insisted it wasn't happening or it was only transitional or what was the big deal as you could afford it.

I mean it was transitional — covid caused worldwide inflation but it had slowed. It was people like you that voted for the orange menace out of pique and now we have inflation by choice.

Along with massive stimulus spending, much of which was unnecessary.

By your definition, all inflation is transitional. Even Weimar inflation. We had several years of persistent inflation that saw food prices go up sharply. And you're trying to blow this off while attacking Trump? Ok... pot calling kettle black!

Two thirds of the stimulus checks during Covid were done by Trump, not Biden. But you're saying that the inflation under Biden was largely avoidable and caused by stimulus spending and that's what we should . . . *not* attack Trump? You guys are adorable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why you specify the middle class as the suffering group, and not the working class?
You know that government help doesn't compensate for low incomes, right?

????
Earned Income Tax Credit
Child Tax Credit
and lots of others, depending on the level of "working class" you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

The economy is in a death spiral and neither Trump nor Biden could have stopped it. Corporate consolidation and low taxes on the wealthy have made the economy look healthier than it is for about 20 years.

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How much is water? Because no one was talking about milk. Half and half is not milk.

I buy 2 gallons of whole milk & put one in the freezer. Ive done this for years. The milk is very watered down, after thawing a bit, almost a 1/3 of it is a transparent block of ice.
It wasn't always like that, It used to get slushy with ice crystals that broke up easily when shaken.
This is from Walmart (usually about $3.79 a gallon) because I live in a food desert area & the only other store is extremely high priced

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Anonymous wrote:The economy is in a death spiral and neither Trump nor Biden could have stopped it. Corporate consolidation and low taxes on the wealthy have made the economy look healthier than it is for about 20 years.

Skyrocketing prices are WAY higher and WAY faster under Trump than Biden. I didn't love Biden, but it's insane to compare the two.

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Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

A half gallon of whole milk is $1.49 at Aldi, today.

https://www.aldi.us/product/friendly-farms-whole-milk-0-5-gal-0000000000001815

Sorry, I was wrong, half and half is $3. I bought heavy cream for baking for $5.25 at Aldi, that's what I was thinking of when I said it was over $5.

But milk isn't half and half either. So half and half is halfway between the price of milk and cream...that makes sense!

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Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

A half gallon of whole milk is $1.49 at Aldi, today.

https://www.aldi.us/product/friendly-farms-whole-milk-0-5-gal-0000000000001815

Sorry, I was wrong, half and half is $3. I bought heavy cream for baking for $5.25 at Aldi, that's what I was thinking of when I said it was over $5.

But milk isn't half and half either. So half and half is halfway between the price of milk and cream...that makes sense!

No, a *quart* of half and half is $3. Half a gallon is $6, and there isn't a snowball's chance in hell you bought half a gallon of heavy cream for $5.25.

[Anonymous]

Personally I have not noticed much of a difference in the price of organic produce and meats. It's something to consider if everything else grown conventionally is that expensive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

Root cellar? Sand??? What?

+1. Came here to make basically the same comment!

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the slightest conveniences during the Biden administration were blown out of proportion and the sky was falling. This man has literally put our country up for the highest bidder and we get comments akin to suck it up or it’s not so bad. The emperor is not only naked by screwing folks in the street.

There was a lot of food inflation during the Biden years. It wasn't slight inconvenience but genuinely real and quite high inflationary prices. Not Zimbabwean inflation but still noticeable. It was people like you who insisted it wasn't happening or it was only transitional or what was the big deal as you could afford it.

I mean it was transitional — covid caused worldwide inflation but it had slowed. It was people like you that voted for the orange menace out of pique and now we have inflation by choice.

+1 Huh, what happened in January?