Posted on 05/13/2008 7:06:40 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
How many times have you been at the supermarket and seen some outrageously HIGH price for some produce? I see this all the time so am I somehow forced to buy it? Of course not. In fact, it is VERY EASY to bargain shop for produce. Possibly easier than for any other type of product. However, when a DUmmie sees a cantelope selling for an $3.89 each, he helplessly bemoans his fate as you can see in this THREAD with the pitiful title of "Cantelope $3.89 a piece? F*ck, we'll be carrying sacks on a stick and begging at the back doors of the 'haves' pretty soon!" Yes, DUmmie, you have NO choice. You MUST buy that $3.89 cantelope. You are forbidden to look for cantelops at other stores or buy them roadside or at farmer's markets for a buck or less each. So let us now watch the DUmmies use their utter incompetence at bargain shopping as a segue to condemn our EVIL capitalist system in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, who recently bought a whole bunch of HUGE papayas for just a buck each, is in the [brackets]:
Cantelope $3.89 a piece? F*ck, we'll be carrying sacks on a stick and begging at the back doors of the "haves" pretty soon!
[A piece of cantelope sold for $3.89. Imagine how much a whole cantelope must sell for.]
A crappy bagel costs $.69 and a crappier muffin is $1.49 at the supermarket. A 16 oz can of soup is $2.19...for broth and a few pieces of pasta. Brown rice is $1.79 lb and bread and milk are near $4.00. Why are we not taking to the streets with this? I despise this administration. DESPISE them. I hope they pay in hell.
[Bagels? I can get a half dozen for a buck. Soup? I can get cans at 2 for a buck. Milk? I WAIT for a certain farmer's market to sell it at a buck for a half gallon and then stock up on it. But since you are TOO STUPID to bargain shop, suddenly you want to take to the streets to overthrow this EVIL Bush regime.]
Looked at Watermelons, yesterday...........small ones - $6.99 and less small ones (can't call them big, really - $7.99. Last year you could get them for $4.99 and they were huge......insane....
[I guess you're too LAZY to stop where roadside vendors are selling watermelons really cheap. Oh, and have you ever checked out the produce section of flea markets? Only true DUmmies will pay $6.99 for a small watermelon. I'll feel good munching on a nice cold small one dollar watermelon later today knowing you allowed yourself to get ripped off.]
The junk food aisle prices are cheap. Hell, a 16 oz bag of imitation chocolate candy $.89. Twinkies are still cheap enough. Why not buy em by the case?
[Good news! Frozen pizza is still cheap. I bought 4 for 5 dollars a week ago.]
well we know where they are coming from when they keep junk food prices down, they are treating us with such vile and disrespect.
[You have absolutely no nutritional choice since the EVIL Bush regime is forcing you to eat junk food.]
....junk food today is like yesterday's cigarettes....make it cheap, encourage their use and watch the peasants drop like flies (after we work the shit out of 'em for a few decades, of course)....capitalism gives me such a warm feeling inside....
[Capitalism is KILLING you with twinkies and chocolate donuts.]
A single ear of corn $1.00. It's crazy.
[Even crazier is that you paid that price.]
They were $2 for six last week at Publix. People need to learn to shop smart. Stock up on items which are on sale and use coupons.
[SHHHHH!!! Don't let the DUmmies know anything about the concept known as bargain shopping. Please continue to allow them to keep on getting ripped off due to their own stupidity.]
I can't believe these produce prices. I shell out for it, but then, I CAN. I count my blessings and am angry on behalf of those whom it really pinches.
[Enjoy those $3.89 cantelopes and $6.99 small watermelons, DUmmie!]
Thank you for your anger. We feel very alone and isolated.
[And helpless.]
Truth be told, I'm one of these idiotf*cks who thinks Trader Joe's is economical, so clearly I haven't "gotten it" in many years.
[Sigh! If only Florida had Trader Joe's so I could indulge in Two Buck Chuck wine.]
I got hostile in the toilet paper section.......... ...12 roll pack of my usual brand - $8.76. Screw that - it goes down the crapper, ferchrissakes, I'll be damned if I pay that. Family will have to get used to flimsy I guess. Meat aisle should have a loan counter right next to it so I can take out a mortgage to get some damn chops..... Milk - hell, a few bucks more and I could get a dang cow..... eggs - do we have a shortage of laying hens? I hate to go to the grocery store anymore - it seems these days we'll have the same menu rotation week after week - but I guess we're lucky to still be able to eat something.
[Maybe your family will have to get used to using their left hands. BTW, I have a food deal where I get meat, beer, olive oil, and paper products really cheap. (My wife doesn't want me to talk about it in detail.) Right now we have enough toilet paper and paper kitchen towels to last us until around Labor Day.]
We're living on split pea soup, lentil soup, rock soup...whatever. Yeah, the toilet paper thing is sickening. Better off using a pressure cleaner.
[Ben Burch will provide you with his personal Rotor Rooter.]
Ha! Eat pine cones AND use them as toilet paper!
[First use the pine cones as toilet paper and THEN eat them.]
a friend of mine was visiting canada and she said a head of lettuce is $5 there....is that true? who the hell would pay $5 for a head of lettuce?
[Clueless Canadian DUmmies.]
I haven't had canteloupe for years based on the price. Only when they sell them at 2 for $3.00. And this is MacIntosh apple country. Cripes, they are $3.49 lb.
[Obviously a DUmmie who NEVER stops for roadside fruit vendors nor goes to farmer's markets.]
Leeks (bunch of three) -- $5.99 at my local Krogers last week.
[EEK! Be sure not to check the farmer's markets so you can continue to bemoan your deserved fate.]
are the freeptards feeling the same crunch? and what are they saying?
[They are saying that helpless DUmmie stupidity is beyond belief and are laughing at you.]
Adzuki beans are the lowest in fat but high in protein. They're great cooked with buttcup squash.
[Ben Burch loves buttcup squash.]
wolfgang puck soup is almost always on sale for $1-$1.25/can, and it definitely is MUCH better than "some broth and a few pieces of pasta".
[Dented Wolfgang Puck soup cans sell for even less at the flea market.]
When will people finally take to the streets? When cantalopes cost $5? $10? What would it take? Seriously...people should be out in the streets NOW.
[Would you take to the streets if I price mark cantelopes up to $20 each? I would love to watch the comedic entertainment.]
2.67 for store brand soup. Use to be $4 for 2 a few weeks ago. Juice is insane. God damn f*cking eggs. Shopping has become depressing. God damn Bush Inc and the enablers.
[Yes, the EVIL Bush regime is preventing you from bargain shopping.]
Liberal guilt.
No, The LEFT would never want to go there -- it is OWNED by that EEEEVIL CORPERATION, Wal*Mart!! :-)
What a bunch of fools!!!! Why don’t they STOP sending their money to the fake messiah, then they wouldn’t have to worry about putting food on the table.
“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?”
Drill ANWR yesterday. Screw the Sierra Club and build some damn refieries. Declare martial law on the coasts a mile out and start sinking drilling platforms. And for God's sake, go to Congress.org and WRITE YOUR CONGRESSCRITTERS! They'll probably ignore you but you can boast that at least you tried.
Well, how about Costco.
It’s run by libs.
But that requires work, must be easy to just bitch about it instead.
>>Nope. President Bush provides us with free food. <<
LOLOL!
Please, you don’t expect the limosine liberal set to shop at ALDI’s or Save A Lot... they are born with the right to shop at whole foods and overpay for everything.
DUmmies don’t pay for their food - their parents do!
Sssssssssh!
I have the unfortunate priviledge of working with a bunch of democrats (other than the CIO, I'm the oldest guy in the department). I know how they think all too well. Like I said in a previous post, I've no idea how these people can get through life without a clue. It must be awfully hard for them.
For instance, there was a power outage in our building yesterday. I'm walking inside the building, and a lady that I work with is pressing the "handicapped button" - the one that automatically opens the door. (she's not handicapped, nor were her hands full, but whatever....that's what she was doing...) I told her, "That button won't work, because the power is out."
She said, "The power's out?" "Yup."
She said, "Is that why the lights in the building are all off?" "Yup."
"And that's why the button won't work?" "Yup."
Fortunately, we didn't get to continue this scintillating conversation becuase her boss came walking up.
She said "Hey, (boss), what's going on?"
The boss replied, "The Power's out."
She replied "The power's out?" "Yup."
"Is that why all the light's in the building are off?"
And I walked away at that point. I guess I'm not a reputable enough source (along with her own eyes....) to determine the status of the power grid at our location.
Hey DUmmies,
Why don’t you like the inevitable results to your enviro policies? Didn’t Nancy promise that everything would be resolved with you idiots in control of the House and Senate? Why continue to blame Bush? To incompetent and intellectually lazy to hold your policy makers accountable?
(Don’t bother, I know the answers to all of these...)
“.12 roll pack of my usual brand - $8.76. Screw that - it goes down the crapper, ferchrissakes, I’ll be damned if I pay that.” .......................... LOL, dummies save on paper by using your phone books, and J.C.Penny catalogs. Also you can save a fortune on paper by using the empty corn cobs from the $1 ears of corn (a reusable source?). Of course there is always the one piece of TP method, but it hasn’t caught on yet.
You have to look around to find really good milk bargains but they are out there. A few months ago, Publix was selling milk for just a buck a half gallon for one day only so I stocked up with enough milk for a couple of weeks. I can also get milk for that same price at a discount food store I go to but they only have that special once every few weeks so I also stock up on milk when it is available at that price. Oh, and the same place sells Jimmy Dean Sausages at a buck for the pound pack. Just finished eating some a little while ago.
Oh wait. You live in Florida. Well, of course you have roadside stands year round. Did you think everyone did?
“I am embarrassed to miss-type, double-post,....”
Good one! Or are you sitting there all embarassed?
I forget which moonbat celebu-chef recently said that out of season foods should be outlawed in England. I don't like that command and control solution, but when fuel prices go up, you shouldn't be surprised that it costs a lot more to have foods shipped in. When I was younger, watermelons and fresh corn were summer to early fall foods, strawberries were spring foods and apples came in the fall.
What about...
Waaah! I want cheaper fruits/veggies, but I want the pickers to be given a “living wage” (and have it passed on to the consumer). :-).
Do these morons even realize that a lot of these products aren’t in season here yet??
You are paying to truck watermelons and other fruit up from south america, with fuel costs of course they are more money!
Where in America can you get sweetcorn in early May that is grown locally?
Ask the old timers where they could buy fresh strawberries in March up in Michigan. These people haven’t got a clue to the distribution of our food and the costs of fuel to do it.
Idiots then blame Bush, what a *&^$%#& joke.
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