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.]
Corn products such as corn sugar syrup and corn flour were cheap before corn prices went up and are ingredients in many of the foods we buy, and corn is also the primary food for meat animals like cattle, hogs, chickens, etc. But now that corn is in high demand by government subsidized ethanol producers the price has almost tripled in the last 3 years, and other food crops such as wheat, rice, soybeans, vegetables, etc are scarcer and therefore higher priced as well.
IOW we are using our most important food crop to fuel cars and trucks, which naturally creates more demand for corn. Which in turn reduces the production of other food crops and results in higher prices for all food. I hope the DUmmies and their greenie pals enjoy eating canned cat food so they can afford to save the planet by driving ethanol fueled motor scooters.
Going to step in it by suggesting that the DUmmies do what I do... grow cantelopes in their own backyard.
I do... along with tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, asparagus, lettuce, potatoes, blueberries, raspberries, etc.
I know. It's all I can do to keep the pantry stocked with Beluga caviar for the kids' after school snacks. Oh, and just the other day I had to drive the SUV all over Cuyahoga county looking for some white winter truffles and they were $60.00 for an ounce. This is insane; how are we supposed to live?
i can't believe they don't already do this, being that they are one with nature and all...
Just like Sheryl Crow.
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..
Maybe a few weeks ago — they had a sale on store brand soups Sales 2/$4 save .67 each. I got Progresso for $1.00 a few weeks ago when there was a sale at Sweetbay.
Not to mention veal shanks. Gettin so a working man can't even have osso buco anymore.
Then they should buy from Costco, a big time supporter of and contributor to Democrats and many far left "causes".
Actually, I think their Moms probably buy their food and clothes while they hunch over their keyboards and bemoan their pitiful financial situations to each other.
You think that's bad, have Wolfgang come over and fix some soup for you. The price of that is unbelievable.
yuppers!
We have a special food deal. On the sly. Can’t go into too much detail but we get over a week’s worth of meat (plus beer, olive oil, laundry detergent, etc.) for just 50 bucks from a “mobile wholesaler.” The meat is usually about a week away from expiration but it comes frozen. Great stuff too. Typically we get a bag of jumbo shrimp as well as lots of chorizos, strip steak, pork chops, chicken, fish, etc.. Usually the beer is a 12 pack of Heineken but this time we got Corona which was a nice break. We also get paper products as well but we are pretty well stocked up on that until late summer.
Awww. Look guys--they're worried about us.
TRANSLATION: I'm not a victim, but I'm angry for those others whom I feel really are victims.
They also think that all grocery store employees should be unionized, with full benefits. How do they think that would all be paid for?
Hence why I have a Sam's Club membership. Boycott Costco!!
A Buck an ear?
or
They are only allowed to shop at the leftist approved organic food stores like Whole Foods.
BTW, assuming a limited number of acres for planting, if more and more organics are grown and we get the consequent lower yields doesn’t that mean prices go up for ALL foods?
The EEEEEvil corporation will pay for it. Directly out of the CEO's pocket. FREE MONEY for EVERYONE!!!
/sarc Do I need a tag like this?
What a bunch of whining, spoiled idiots. They haven’t learned yet that the prices they are paying are for the convenience of being able to walk into a store and obtain food and ripe fruit year round.
If they want lower prices they have to sacrifice the convenience and plan their meals and shopping. Coupons, Costco bulk, day old bread store, Farmers market, Aldi, weekly grocery specials, and buying marked down meat are all part of my routine.
The butcher’s at the high end grocery just down the street mark down the meat that “expires” that day each morning. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s the same as if you bought it yesterday, put it in the fridge and didn’t use it for dinner. I toss it in the freezer and only paid 1/2 price for it.
These whiners are a perfect example of the pussification and spoiled character of Americans that people from other countries often mock.
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