Do anyone still remember the drama with egg prices? Or is it just me?
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the absolutely wild thing about this is that australia is/was also complaining about a cost of living crisis, and our food is $ for $ roughly the same… as in our numeric value for food is the same - despite our currency being worth about 2/3 as much
this doesn’t mean that australia has our cost of living crisis easy… it means that americas food prices are ultra fucked
https://links.coles.com.au/hRXTKkT7aVb
Coles No Added Hormone Beef 3 Star Regular Mince: $7/500g (1lb ~= 450g)
(at time of writing, that beef in the photo costs about $10AUD/500g, or our beef mince costs $4.50USD)
Noticed a similar thing going between Canadian and US grocery stores. Roughly the same numerical cost, but with the difference in price exchange rates it is far cheaper on the Canadian side. Also, high fructose corn syrup isn’t at the top of every single ingredient list.
In part because people got used to those prices rising. But mostly because the media couldn't generate clicks discussing it anymore.
Possibly because you are a Xitter user, where 90% of the user base is bots.
Oh, man. I haven't thought about Ramit in years. He used to do a blog called "I will teach you to be rich" or something like that.
Surprised he's not a Trump voter, to be honest.
i miss when the cost of eggs was our biggest concern
I could sell you some eggs for 100% markup so you can relive that memory.
because everyone knows and feels the slowly rising over-inflation, but there are far more pressing problems that need to be addressed
Whilst I am profoundly disconcerted by the egregiously inflationary trajectory of alimentary commodification, my consternation is exponentially exacerbated by the preposterous proclivity of certain individuals to gratuitously employ grandiloquent and recondite verbiage in a transparently ostentatious endeavor to simulate intellectual superiority.
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the average amount of red meat consumed a day on the earth per person is something like 2.2 ounces.
seems like the price isn't high enough to make Americans recognize how a 1/4 pounder is twice that average in one item.
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What is Fox talking about?