I haven't tasted a decent orange or tangerine in years. Paying $5 a bag only to peel them and they be as dry inside as they are outside ticks me off. Grapes? Ha Ha Ha sure sour and cost more than about any of the other fruits.
Moving on the meat. Now I can remember as a kid being able to eat Bologna and any other sandwich meat without bending over double afterward in some gastro explosion. The taste was good and a kid taking a lunch from home to school could safely eat it at lunch. This was when sandwich meat was made from actual meat and not ground bone, ligaments, and gristle. Which brings up the issue of bread. Shelf life? Two weeks and it taste like two week old bread.
Soft drinks? As a kid I drink a few about every day and suffered no ill effects. But the governments stinking sugar program keeping the price of sugar sky high means companies use corn syrup. Thank you Pepsi for Throwbacks and for diet drinks with Splenda which still taste far better than a cold glass of Karo syrup.
Ground beef? Gone through the roof. Fat back for soup beans is as much or more on the pound as ground beef. It used to cost a fraction of what ground beef did. Tuna fish? Remember when the cans actually were packed with Tuna and just enough water inside to insure it stayed moist? Used to be the cheapest meat was chicken. One company now supplies most stores and the sky is the limit same with pork chops. Bacon is now officially the rich mans breakfast meat.
Candy? Hershey candy bars now taste like paraffin. Almond Joy still taste the same but just half of what you once got. Reese peanut butter cups are about half size also. They don't seem as good as they used to be.
I buy at the store what I can afford as top priority. So it also angers me that the mega stores have everyone subsidizing the Seafood Dept in every store whether customers actually buy it or not along with other such stuff as Chittlins. I bet they sell a bucket a year of that in my area.
The real treat is beef roast but it's also the best meat value for number of meals when on sale. BTW why should a small bag of Kraut cost $2?
On top of it all our meddling Goobermunt who now has it's agencies in everything is one of the main reasons consumer goods especially food has such a high cost. Everything in a store gets there by truck. With diesel fuel in the cheaper states costing $4.70 plus that is passed on to the consumer also. The fuel is just part of it. Some states also charge mileage tax on trucks plus the annual permits.
Dear Goobermunt, You have screwed up royally just about every aspect of a private American citizens everyday life trying to be our overlords in a nation that was supposed to be governed by consent we give our ELECTED officials and not some power hungry tyrants heading feral agencies. I remember when you used to not be so disgustingly ugly & bloated and authoritarian in nature. Our nation as well as our lives ran much smoother then. You're meddling in agriculture trying to control it rather than letting the market do it is what created much of this mess. Worse than that stupid patent lawsuits etc were upheld basically giving one company control of most of our food chain including of all things pollination of plants. All of this just in the past 40 of my 55 plus years you have managed to do.
So now your so called expert agencies have the gall to try and tell me what and how to eat? I would say go to hell but you've already in a way created a version of that as well.
My supermarket just started carrying this stuff. It tastes great, and cost about the same as soda pop. I hope it’s good, because I like it!’
http://bolthouse.com/products/beverages/smoothies
Dear Goobermunt, You have screwed up royally just about every aspect of a private American citizens everyday life trying to be our overlords in a nation that was supposed to be governed by consent...
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Hey, fellow CVA vet, I agree with all you said in your posting #49!