On Monday, November 30, 2020 at 4:42:52 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:30:24 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons wrote:
>
> > What is amazing is how little the cost of this concoction has increased in the
> > twenty-seven years since this was posted. While things like house prices,
> > college tuition have gone crazy, canned tuna and canned mushroom prices
> > have hardly budged, and off brand boxed mac&cheese is still 50 cents or less.
>
> Chunk light tuna in oil has gone up 300% and the cans have shrunk
> almost 30%. And the quality and tuna raitio to packing material has
> gone downnhill as well.

I was going by this website, which had tuna at 89 cents a can. I know I don't pay
more than about $1 a can, or I wouldn't buy it.
https://mclib.info/reference/local-h...prices/1993-2/

I see jarred mushrooms at Dollar Tree for $1, which is not much more than the
79 cents they were in the late 1980s, when I used to eat such things. I make
that boxed mac & cheese stuff for my teenage son, and I've gotten it as cheap
as 19 cents, and never paid more than 79 cents, or again, I wouldn't have bought
it.

You are correct that the standard size can has gone down from 6.5 oz to 5 oz,
but it's still only 72 cents a can.
https://www.walmart.com/grocery/ip/G...-5-oz/19718006

You really like for me to be incorrect. I guess you're still getting over having
claimed that your Rico's cheese crap wasn't trans-fatty, or perhaps I hit a raw
nerve when I (jokingly) suggested that maybe Mrs. Steve wasn't putting you
to sleep/waking you up nicely. I mean, that'd make me grumpy.
>
> -sw

--Bryan