The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110362   Message #2318024
Posted By: Barry Finn
17-Apr-08 - 04:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Food: Inflation
Subject: RE: BS: Food: Inflation
In the 3 super markets that I shop in the single pizzas that I used to buy for $1 on sale are now on sale for $1.75, the maple syrup has doubled, ceral has gone up half, rice is the same, all in a matter of months, chicken should be getting cheaper but,,,pork, lamb & beef just keeps climbing & fish is no better & getting worst in the types they'll sell to the public. With fish it's throw them the garbage at a cheaper price & they'll never know the difference.

Fish, that's a can of worms in itself. As a kid always living near the water in the northeast of the US, one wouldn't think of eating shark, monkfish, wolfish, mussels of course it was here that we also had the lobster revolts when fed to the slaves to often duning a weeks course. Farmed fish sucks in comparsion to fresh & so doesn't frozen. For me, I'd just as soon move back to the water's edge & get my own, till a good garden, hunt when I need to the hell with a job, oh, shit I'm retired. My wife forbids guns anywhere around the house. She had a boyfriend once who was shot through the head dead by a hunter. Really, we're gonna have to go back to a DIY society.
When I lived in Hawaii & worked with the locals they went spear fishing in the am before coming to work, every morning, that was part of their evening supper, they grew their own veggies & some hunted on weekend. Mostly because that the way they always lived but also because their islands went so upscale that that's the only way they could afford to live without cashing in on their oh so valuable land & houses. They considered themseves very lucky to live by the ocean & on a land still so wild. So what's wrong with this picture. Population explosion, polution of land, water & air, dwindling natrual habitats, waterfronts being developed for industry which discourages eviormentally friendly uses.
Hell, I'm all for a "Free the Graveyards" campaign. Use the grounds for community gardens. Stop buring bodies, chop 'em up, compost them & replenish the oceans & deserts with our feed, trun us into fuel!

Gotta go to bed, I'm gonna have some crazy dreams tonight, this morning, gee didn't even see it's so late. Goodnite

Barry