Default User > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> Dave Smith > wrote:

>> > Tires are cheaper per mile driven then
>> > used to me.

>> More likely to peel

>No way. Tires these days are far superior to the ones of years past.
>It's not unusual to meet younger people who have never changed a flat,
>because they never had one.

Sure they've never changed a flat, when your SUV rolls because
a tire peels and you die, you fail to gain any flat-changing
experience.

Steve

On 27 Apr 2007 09:15:19 -0700, Barry > wrote:

>On Apr 26, 10:22 am, Karen AKA Kajikit > wrote:
>> How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
>> tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
>> apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...
>>
>> What cereal do you eat for brekky?
>
>cereal offenders?
>
>a bug just landed and disappeared in my bowl of cereal
>I ate it anyway. it was my last bowl.. but he was a cereal offender

Don't you think the death sentence was a bit steep for a first
offence?

On Apr 27, 7:23 pm, Karen AKA Kajikit > wrote:

> Don't you think the death sentence was a bit steep for a first
> offence?

mmm, the way I eat in a hurry sometimes, he's probably still alive.

lets hope he can swim, I just sent him out to sea

Chatty Cathy wrote:
>
> >
> > Welcome to the age of electronics. Televisions are cheaper now than they
> > were years ago. That is not just factored for inflation. They are cheaper.
> > Computers are much better than they used to be, and a fraction of the
> > cost. Music CDs are cheaper now. Tires are cheaper per mile driven then
> > used to me. Salmon and shrimp are affordable now. Soft drinks are
> > relatively cheap now compared to years ago.
>
> Ahem. Silly me, I was thinking about *food* - not other products - as I
> assumed that's what we were discussing.

The Spare bedroom said to widen my thinking ot all products. A lot of
things are relatively cheaper and some things are actually priced lower.

> And as for salmon and shrimp - never seen their prices go down in the
> 20-odd years that I have been buying them. Soft drinks (which is sorta
> food-related) haven't got cheaper here either. Maybe I should move to
> the USA?

Don't do it :-) I don't live in the US. Soft drinks aren't exactly
cheaper, but when adjusted for inflation is relatively cheap. When I was a
kit a large bottle 25 oz bottle of pop was 29 cents. Now I can get a
litter for $1-1.30. I live a long way from the ocean. Shrimp used to be
unaffordable. Now is is very affordable.

wrote:
>
>
> Simarlily, grain is a very large scale commodity such that its cost
> compared to the processing, factory overhead, packaging, etc. is
> probably almost zero on a per-box basis. The farmer could suddenly
> be getting twice the price for grain in the field and I bet it would
> not cause even a blip in cereal prices at the store.

Considering the cost of grain and the small amount of it that goes into a
box cereal you have a point, but I am quite convinced that if the price of
grain doubled, the price of the cereal would double. There is not much else
in Shredded Wheat, and the manufacturing process is fairly simple, so
simple that the company used to have a demonstration of it at exhibitions.
The cost of a 1 lb. box of Shredded Wheat here is a little over $4 per box.
For the same price you can get 10 pounds of flour, and if you buy the flour
in even larger quantities the cost per pound is a fraction of that.

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>
>
> 1) Dave said "shredded wheat". Unless he was talking about private label
> stuff, it's all made here in the U.S. Therefore, your "not all food
> products" statement is irrelevant.

Actually, it is made in Niagara Falls Ontario.

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Simarlily, grain is a very large scale commodity such that its cost
>> compared to the processing, factory overhead, packaging, etc. is
>> probably almost zero on a per-box basis. The farmer could suddenly
>> be getting twice the price for grain in the field and I bet it would
>> not cause even a blip in cereal prices at the store.
>
> Considering the cost of grain and the small amount of it that goes into a
> box cereal you have a point, but I am quite convinced that if the price of
> grain doubled, the price of the cereal would double. There is not much
> else
> in Shredded Wheat, and the manufacturing process is fairly simple, so
> simple that the company used to have a demonstration of it at exhibitions.
> The cost of a 1 lb. box of Shredded Wheat here is a little over $4 per
> box.
> For the same price you can get 10 pounds of flour, and if you buy the
> flour
> in even larger quantities the cost per pound is a fraction of that.


Where is "here"?

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>>
>>
>> 1) Dave said "shredded wheat". Unless he was talking about private label
>> stuff, it's all made here in the U.S. Therefore, your "not all food
>> products" statement is irrelevant.
>
> Actually, it is made in Niagara Falls Ontario.


Oy! Fine, but that's not China.

Steve Pope wrote:
>
> >Computers are much better than they used to be, and a fraction of the
> >cost.
>
> Slave labor

Seems like it.

> >Music CDs are cheaper now.
>
> Lousier music

That is a matter of taste. Contemprary music is pretty lame, but pop music
went down the tubes in the 70s. The music of the 80s and 90s sucked and the
2000s have not been stellar. There is a reason that there are so many
stations playing the hits of these 60s and 70s. Never the less, CDs are
cheaper now, even for the good stuff.

> >Tires are cheaper per mile driven then
> >used to me.
>
> More likely to peel

Treads peeling off is usually the result of excess heat, which in turn is
because of low air pressure. Tires last so long now that they lose air over
time. People do not check their air pressure as often as they used to
because they don't feel the need. Think back to the 50s and 60s when tires
were guaranteed for only 5,000 miles, and flat tires were a regular
occurrence. Tires now get at least five times as much life out of them as
they used to.

> >Salmon and shrimp are affordable now.
>
> Farmed

Yes.... but still cheaper, right?

>
> >Soft drinks are
> >relatively cheap now compared to years ago.
>
> High-fructose corn syrup

That is just a matter of squeezing more money out of consumers. They use a
lot of sugar. The savings per can is a fraction of a penny, but it adds up
when they sell a billion cans