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Foods we're ashamed to admit liking
On Monday, November 30, 2020 at 5:44:01 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> On Monday, November 30, 2020 at 1:34:49 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> > 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
> I've been getting Chicken of the Sea Chunk Light Tuna from Costco. It's a better product than the awful stuff you get in the supermarket. It's like tuna used to be back in the old days - well, except for the fact that it's packed in water. Get it while you still can because one day, it'll be gone.
>
> https://www.costco.com/chicken-of-th...100384209.html
At 120 clams for 9 dinky cans, it's a vewy vewy expensive twash fish...
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Best
Greg
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