Boy, these folks aren’t slow on the uptake(sar.) Beef prices have been through the roof for years. At my local Shop Rite sirloin steak is $12.99 a pound.
I moved to my current location in 1972. I could buy all the choice T-bone I wanted for $.78 a pound and it was better quality than you can buy now. I don’t even know what it costs now because I never buy any. There was a little seafood place here where you could go in the evening and have all the fresh flounder you could eat with all the trimmings and ice tea for $1.69. The sales tax was three cents on the dollar. There was a gas war on and regular gas was $.19 and 9/10. If food were to be taxed at the same rate as other things now the sales tax would be well over what the entire cost was then. My new job was paying me around six hundred a month before tax plus expenses and I had no problems paying the bills and we ate T-bone any time we felt like it. Now you need a thousand a week to go hungry.