I'm in England. When I visited Arizona a couple of weeks ago I was shocked at US food prices. I am in fact a UK Costco member but didn't visit a US Costco while I was there. In regular supermarkets though the US prices are approaching 2x what I pay here for the exact same stuff. For example I shopped in a US Lidl and we also have Lidl here.
The only stuff which was significantly cheaper in the US was alcohol (wine/beer/spirits) and - for some strange reason - eggs. I was surprised that the smallest pack of eggs I could buy was 12 (we buy them in packs of 6) and the US price was about a quarter of what 12 would cost in UK. Go figure.
I certainly don't consider egg prices reasonable considering I got hooked on the more expensive eggs. I've tried to buy the cheaper eggs and can tell the difference.
Some places have eggs in packs of 6, but it is indeed rare.
You'll find that highly processed food (cheap carbs, sugar, corn, etc) is what is cheap in the USA. That and like you said booze. Now why would that be?
Remember back when "sugar cereals" were more expensive than the more "healthier brands" then It had totally flipped there for a while where the pure sugar ones were cheap and healthy expensive but, it has evened out a bit now. Most cereals are just nasty anyway though, IMO.
Not any more. The highly processed stuff is high as gold. Potato chips and other salty junk food have doubled in price. And bags are now half the size and still shrinking so the price is actually far more than doubled. The same is true of any processed food you can mention. Look at cereal, canned soup, any frozen foods.
Egg prices are doubled too. They're lower than they were a year ago but a dozen jumbo eggs were 78 cents for years. They're now $1.63.
But you'll see the same thing with all those things you use to cook yourself and avoid processed stuff. Meat, nearly all fresh vegetables and fruit. A 5 lb bag of plain old white potatoes is $5 or more.
It's hard to realize how bad the inflation really is because it's been gradual, but it's far worse that the 3-8% Biden's government has been claiming.
omg, since I watched that clip of parasite pee.. lol, I didn't have coffee for a week, and got a headache and instantly thought of parasite pee. GTFO with that one. Shudder.
Due to preservation methods US eggs last much longer than European eggs, almost twice as long. That's much less SHRINK, and it's a breakfast staple, so eggs tend to be supermarket loss leaders.
I'm in England. When I visited Arizona a couple of weeks ago I was shocked at US food prices. I am in fact a UK Costco member but didn't visit a US Costco while I was there. In regular supermarkets though the US prices are approaching 2x what I pay here for the exact same stuff. For example I shopped in a US Lidl and we also have Lidl here.
The only stuff which was significantly cheaper in the US was alcohol (wine/beer/spirits) and - for some strange reason - eggs. I was surprised that the smallest pack of eggs I could buy was 12 (we buy them in packs of 6) and the US price was about a quarter of what 12 would cost in UK. Go figure.
Paranoid me has me thinking the eggs are cheap cause they’ve added something to them somehow….😬😁
Or egg prices were being carefully watched by normies so they are artificially keeping them reasonable. /tinfoil
I don't consider $6 a dozen reasonable for something that was 99 cents in 2020.
I certainly don't consider egg prices reasonable considering I got hooked on the more expensive eggs. I've tried to buy the cheaper eggs and can tell the difference.
Some places have eggs in packs of 6, but it is indeed rare.
You'll find that highly processed food (cheap carbs, sugar, corn, etc) is what is cheap in the USA. That and like you said booze. Now why would that be?
Remember back when "sugar cereals" were more expensive than the more "healthier brands" then It had totally flipped there for a while where the pure sugar ones were cheap and healthy expensive but, it has evened out a bit now. Most cereals are just nasty anyway though, IMO.
Not any more. The highly processed stuff is high as gold. Potato chips and other salty junk food have doubled in price. And bags are now half the size and still shrinking so the price is actually far more than doubled. The same is true of any processed food you can mention. Look at cereal, canned soup, any frozen foods.
Egg prices are doubled too. They're lower than they were a year ago but a dozen jumbo eggs were 78 cents for years. They're now $1.63.
But you'll see the same thing with all those things you use to cook yourself and avoid processed stuff. Meat, nearly all fresh vegetables and fruit. A 5 lb bag of plain old white potatoes is $5 or more.
It's hard to realize how bad the inflation really is because it's been gradual, but it's far worse that the 3-8% Biden's government has been claiming.
Funny how alcohol has not inflated tremendously. Keeps you asleep.
Their plan is to make us all alcoholics and juiced up all the time, non- productive and incapacitated.
Or, to feed the parasites.....
omg, since I watched that clip of parasite pee.. lol, I didn't have coffee for a week, and got a headache and instantly thought of parasite pee. GTFO with that one. Shudder.
Due to preservation methods US eggs last much longer than European eggs, almost twice as long. That's much less SHRINK, and it's a breakfast staple, so eggs tend to be supermarket loss leaders.
How are eggs preserved other than by refrigeration? (talking store bought eggs which have been washed).
Euros don't refrigerate or wash their eggs.
Interesting. I wonder what their incidence of salmonella is compared to the US.
Doesn't it seem funny, I can't hear your accent from you writing this😂
Well we kind of invented English so not too surprising that I kun spik it gud 😁