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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are choosing to pay $16 for McDonald’s and $13 for Subway. These are not essential food groups. Make wiser choices.[/quote] You think it's just fast food that's gotten ridiculous? Been to a grocery store recently?[/quote] Yes. It doesn’t cost me $13 to buy ingredients for a sandwich. [/quote] What? Its $6 for deli meat these days. $3 for bread. Lettuce is another $2. Tomatoes are $1. Literally. Mayo and condiments are extra.[/quote] And that makes you only 1 sandwich?[/quote] Why are you being so obtuse? The POINT is that all of these things cost half as much within living memory (i.e. four years ago). When prices go up that much that quickly the public notices, especially when their wages haven't risen.[/quote] Exaggerating much?[/quote] What people don't realize until they've been on the planet long enough is that this happens periodically. in 1970 there was a huge to-do about meat prices, made the cover of Time magazine with a pic of the week's supply of meat one housewife (that's what they were back then) bought when she cut back on meat purchases. In the late 70s it was coffee--I was in college then and suddenly everybody in the country was buying coffee stretched with roasted barley (it made some weird colors when you added milk compared to 100% coffee). Bird flue hits eggs and chickens, especially in recent years. The US has cheap food. Period. What I do dislike is how all the poor people food (think chicken wings, bony meat cuts like ribs) became desirable food and much more expensive relative to the rest of the animal than before. I particularly detest looking at a "crown"of broccoli (literally one stem) with a $3 price tag. I steer towards the basics like corrots and cabbage more then ever. [/quote]
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