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 $4 for 2 a few weeks ago. Juice is insane. God damn f*cking eggs. Shopping has become depressing. God damn Bush Inc and the enablers.
[Yes, the EVIL Bush regime is preventing you from bargain shopping.]
Great idea!! We need to tell Californians to STFU and if they don't like it, we should shut their power off, they import 75% of their power from other states. Why should they get it if they don't do anything?
That toilet paper with the picture of George Bush on it is for novelty purposes, not everyday use. Try something more economical like Charmin.
oh........ a testy newbie...........
Is that you Barack Obama?
Too bad not one of them can spell “cantaloupe” correctly
That would be the "Penny Mystery Item." Every week, on Sunday and Monday, an item is on sale for a penny so long as you purchase a minimum of 10$ worth of goods.
It's nice. A half gallon of milk is popular; we usually have that one up every several weeks. We also get other items like a gallon of bleach, paper towels, certain kinds of cereal, cheese...and, just yesterday, Progresso soup. :3
It's supposed to be only "One item per customer", but I know some savvy shoppers go through the hassle of multiple orders/trips to get around that little loophole.
I go to Whole Foods a few times, but to me Whole Foods is nothing special. The last time I went there, some LIBERAL (who saw my Bush Cheney bumper sticker) told me that my type is not welcomed there. (The guy didn't have anything to do with the store - he was a liberal busy body)
I told him to ask the manager if my type was welcome - since I am a stockholder (yes, I own a few shares of it). The NUT thought I was lying because he thought it was a co-op. I told him it is OWNED by an EEEVIL COMPANY!
The nut made my day!! :-)
That Moonbat Chef is Chef Gordon (#@!%) Ramsey - the host of 'Hell's Kitchen'.
Or, make the muffins and make the soup. Shop at Wal-Mart (I bet a lot of them do but like my son in law, hides the bags from his mother who works at Whole Foods.)
re: Vidalia onions
74. You can buy them on the side of the road in Vidalia, Texas
REALLY cheap. Luckily I have that option.
Sorry, but some things here do not grow in the SUMMER, Tomatoes and Strawberries don’t like hot weather. Most of my GARDEN is finished.
You should have played along, I think you could have passed it off as a double post on purpose!
This thread reminds me. Not to long ago it was, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.”
Now it is, “whaaaaaa, I want mommy and daddy government to take care of me, whaaa, food costs money.”
I suppose the NEA should be proud.
If you buy Vidalia Onions in Vidalia, Texas, the Vidalia Onion Board (which trademark the term for ONIONS grown near Vidalia, Georgia) will be ANGRY!
are the freeptards feeling the same crunch? and what are they saying?No. Us 'freeptards' aren't feeling the same crunch 'cause we have all the guns and take our Cantaloupes and Watermelons by force of arms.
And what this 'freeptard' is saying is that the food price increase is the fault of all you retard tree hugging DUmmies.
We haven't built a refinery in 30 years, can't drill for oil in Alaska or anywhere in the lower 48, or off California or in the Gulf - all because of you freaking Moonbats. The same goes for Nuclear power, Coal, or even Wind Farms off Nantucket because THAT would spoil the sailing of your hero, fat ass Ted Kennedy. Not to mention that thanks to you DUmmies what was once farm land for FOOD, is now being used for 'bio-fuel' - all so you can drive your 'green' Volvo to your upscale yuppie 'designer market' and buy that $10.00 Cantaloupe.
But again, we got all the guns and ammo so we'll survive when it gets down 'to it'.
I have always had an aversion to paying retail, and so I learned to shop in the correct manner.
We eat really good, not a lot of junk food, or much that is high in carbs or fat. It means spending time on weekends, but if you think of it as a treasure hunt, that makes it fun. I always find two for one's, dollar a pound, can, etc. It really is not that hard.
You have to learn to cook, and everyone in the family does cook. We have shelves of cook books, (bought at yard sales, flea markets and auctions). We grill in warm weather and always stop at the orchards, farmer's markets and roadside vendors.
These people are absolutely clueless, and must be stupid not to mention insulated.
2.67 for store brand soup. Use to be $4 for 2 a few weeks ago.
where in the he*l are these people shopping? I get progresso soup, 4 for $5..
“If you buy Vidalia Onions in Vidalia, Texas, the Vidalia Onion Board (which trademark the term for ONIONS grown near Vidalia, Georgia) will be ANGRY!”
We usually buy 1015’s around these parts...
I don’t suppose the DUmmies will hold themselves accountable for our lack of refining capacity driving up pump prices and thus food.
Lately I have been noticing that they never do a profile. Maybe they don't know how, but I would assume that it is because they can't talk the talk without giving themselves away.
Well, Zotbait for the mods...
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