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Food Price Rise Affects Restaurant Menus
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-13-2008 | Ian Johnson

Posted on 04/12/2008 8:16:06 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 04/12/2008 8:16:07 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

This is part of the reason why me and my other half don’t go out to eat that much anymore


2 posted on 04/12/2008 8:17:31 PM PDT by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our vets! (RIP Sgt Matthew Maupin))
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Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites
3 posted on 04/12/2008 8:18:49 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

This must be the new liberal “MEME”.
Same article published in the Boston Globe today but with a local twist.
This is what Idiot liberals do when..
A.) It’s an election year.
B.) Global Warming Policies “ come HOME TO ROOST”!


4 posted on 04/12/2008 8:21:45 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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There does appear to be a worldwide food shortage. Both India and China are prohibiting the export of rice.


5 posted on 04/12/2008 8:32:39 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam
Restaurants have had to re-tool to survive. The days of cheap eats may soon be a memory. If you want a premium item dish, expect to pay what what it costs to buy and prepare it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

6 posted on 04/12/2008 8:33:37 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: blam

There is a steak house around here that has a beautiful view of a cow pasture.


7 posted on 04/12/2008 8:34:40 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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Oh well, there is supposed to be a global obesity crisis, too. Perhaps one will fix the other.

I am truly sorry for those who are really hungry (and underweight), though.

It seems to me, however, that we should not be reading daily rants about how fat we all are right along with daily rants about how there’s no more food, or what there is is unaffordable.


8 posted on 04/12/2008 8:40:06 PM PDT by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
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To: blam

archer daniels midlands is laughing all the way to the bank with their ethanol tax break.


9 posted on 04/12/2008 8:40:44 PM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never ,hear from them again.)
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To: Marie2
Its funny. A few years ago liberals were obsessing about obesity. Soon they may obsess about hunger.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

10 posted on 04/12/2008 8:42:21 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: blam
Ya, and gee it was totally a unforeseeable and all that food prices would go up when food is used as fuel...sheesh. I saw an article that quoted a UCLA professor of ecology say something to the effect of “This Biofuel thing is a lot more complicated than we originally thought” referring to the unintended consequences
11 posted on 04/12/2008 8:44:51 PM PDT by donkey slayer
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To: Poetgal26

Me too. We spend a little more at the grocery store for good items and make dishes up ourselves at home.


12 posted on 04/12/2008 8:45:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: acapesket

Yepp!! The idiotic ‘let’s burn our food, it’s cleaner’ nonsense is filtering through the markets. Thanks for playing. Maybe now they see what idiotic policies have wrought.


13 posted on 04/12/2008 8:46:43 PM PDT by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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To: Secret Agent Man
I luv trading recipes, so if you have any good ones to pass along, I would luv to hear them...
14 posted on 04/12/2008 8:49:06 PM PDT by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our vets! (RIP Sgt Matthew Maupin))
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B.) Global Warming Policies “ come HOME TO ROOST”!

SPOT-ON! Let's all reduce our CO2 output by 50%, 70% or even 90% over the next couple decades. We'll do it by taxing all fossil fuels! That'll force those evil consumers to mend their profligate energy wasting ways!

Lib response...Oops! Tee Hee. We forgot that all farm equipment is powered by fossil fuels, all ammonia fertilizers originate from natural gas, that food is transported to market with fossil fuels, and refrigerated by fossil fuels in-transit and in the retail store. And we forgot the growing crops for ethanol would displace food crops. Aren't we a bunch of silly gooses?

15 posted on 04/12/2008 8:49:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: blam

Arbys is my restaurant of choice.


16 posted on 04/12/2008 8:49:20 PM PDT by Ciexyz (My Comments/Ping List no longer downloads.)
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To: donkey slayer
What did liberals think? There was an unlimited supply of wheat, corn and rice for biofuels? You want those with the market the way it is and some people are going to hungry. Life has trade-offs. The Left is eternally surprised at its own stupidity, reflected in its ignorance of basic rules of economic life.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

17 posted on 04/12/2008 8:51:54 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I’m not spending any more money. Gas has doubled and some grocery items cost 25-50% more now. I’ve basically quit eating out, and buy mostly stuff on sale to balance things out since
I’m not the government and don’t have a money tree in the back yard.


18 posted on 04/12/2008 8:53:00 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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When we occasionally go out though I want to go to a restuarant. They do tend to serve a lot of food (that we expect) Maybe they could offer smaller portion with free 2nds instead , to cut down on waste and cost.


19 posted on 04/12/2008 8:56:21 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: goldstategop

I thought you just went to the store and get rice or whatever you need. Why would growing crops for fuel affect food in the stores? They’re completely different.

:-)


20 posted on 04/12/2008 8:56:26 PM PDT by kenth (I have a apolitical blues)
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