I bought another 20 pounds of corn meal tonight, $2.12 for a five pound bag...they would call it mealie-meal in Zimbabwe.
Also, a 20 pound bag of rice a Wal-Mart was $14.72...that's $.74 a pound. Contrast that with a ten pound bag of chicken leg quarters at $6.58 a bag...that's $.66 a pound.
A pound of rice costs more than a pound of chicken?
With grain that's the "dry weight". Chicken is sold at the "wet weight".