"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>> "John Kuthe" wrote:
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>> ...I'd really be even more upset that I had to pay $2.99 a pound for
>> them!
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>> What ever happened to 99 cents a pound for cherries?
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> What ever happened to 99¢ watermelons?

Too ripe to go to market - a Stake truck parked in Bayville Long Island NY
..50 cents per melon. only 50 years ago.

Dimitri