sparkling husband primitive complains about high price of corn

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

Husb2Sparkly  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-09-08 10:39 PM
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A Tale of Twoferabuck Corn
   
We stopped at Safeway on our way home, looking for chow. I wanted some Bruce Aidell sausages. Sparkly also wanted to grill some vegetables. Corn, of course, always comes to mind.

The corn they had was smallish and kinda dried out.

Two ears fer a buck.

What???? This time of year?

Turns out, our local corn is in a week or so lull. In the spring, there was a week of rain, the produce guy said, and they missed a week's planting. This is the week it should have ripened. There simply is no local corn. Next week it will again be cheap, good, and plentiful. But not this week.

The corn they had was from southern Virginia.

Duzziss sound reasonable to you? I never heard of such a thing before.

One wonders if the sparkling husband primitive charges the same rents for his properties, that he was charging a year ago, or two years ago, or five years ago.....

Dover  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 07:13 AM
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1. Does a buck for 2 ears of corn sound reasonable?
   
Or are you asking if the excuse for that price is a reasonable one?

It's interesting. I have seen the shelves a lot emptier than usual at my grocery store of late.

Particularly in the produce section.

Hardly the usual look of abundance with veggies spilling out of their bins. And the prices in general are higher.

Perhaps corn especially since it is tied to the ethanol issue on top of higher transportation costs (though I'm not sure if corn for human consumption is experiencing the same hikes as feed corn). Price wise, nothing really surprises me anymore....BUT 50 cents for a small cob seems pricey. Of course, compared to other things like red bell peppers...it's a bargain!

Time to plant that garden!

The U.S. Agriculture Department has said it expects U.S. food prices to climb 5 percent this year, the largest annual increase since 1990, then rise by another 4.5 percent in 2009.

Husb2Sparkly  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 10:19 AM
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3. Sorry, I guess I wasn't that clear ....... I was asking about the excuse.
   
The price of corn has varied a bit, as it does every year. It averages 4 for a buck. Sometimes even cheaper.

Two fer a buck is early or late season pricing, not prime season, like .... uh ..... now.

hippywife  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 09:01 AM
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2. Now that I think about it
   
I paid that for local corn at the very beginning of the season at the farm stand in the sleepy little burg just north of here. After that it went to 3 fer, and one day I even paid 7.99/dozen at the other farm stand.

I just figure it's the blowback from ethanol production, and don't get me started on that stupid topic!

The hippowife primitive conveniently forgets that what goes into ethanol production is inedible by humans anyway.  And even inedible by livestock.  The hippowife primitive should be happy that some resource formerly considered "waste" is now actually being used for some good.

Crisco  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 02:55 PM
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4. Sounds Close to What We're Paying
   
I just paid $1.25 for 3 at a local farmstand. That's about average right now. I have no idea what it costs in the super market, though.

mtnester  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 07:02 PM
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5. $3.00 a dozen
   
farmers market here (farmers dozen, which is 13-14 ears)

Ohio

It's been circa $2 per dozen here in the Sandhills lately; but what the primitives don't understand (among millions of other things the primitives don't understand) is that produce is the cheapest closest to where it proliferates.

One assumes the sparkling husband primitive could find Maryland agricultural products a great deal cheaper than franksolich in Nebraska would find Maryland agricultural products, for example.

The primitives are just so stupid one wonders why they even exist. 

yy4me  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:37 PM
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6. Around here, 2 for $1.00 is not bad for early corn but I think it drops to about 35 cents an ear as we get into the season. What is bad with your observation is that it was old and dried out. It is not not fair to be priced that way. Should be sold in bulk to someone who will make chowder or whatever. I doubt if anyone will buy what is obviously old produce.

eleny  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 12:02 AM
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7. 3 for a buck Olathe, Colorado corn today at Soopers
   
I didn't buy any but people were flocking and from what I saw the kernels looked good. Maybe next time. Olathe corn is mighty fine!

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The hippowife primitive conveniently forgets that what goes into ethanol production is inedible by humans anyway.  And even inedible by livestock.  The hippowife primitive should be happy that some resource formerly considered "waste" is now actually being used for some good.

Actually, frank, from what I've read, the corn used for ethanol is then processed into high-quality cattle feed. 

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The hippowife primitive conveniently forgets that what goes into ethanol production is inedible by humans anyway.  And even inedible by livestock.  The hippowife primitive should be happy that some resource formerly considered "waste" is now actually being used for some good.

Actually, frank, from what I've read, the corn used for ethanol is then processed into high-quality cattle feed. 

They're sold as DDG , or Dried Distillers Grain.  Wiki Link

[franksolich]

You know, I have no doubt the hippowife primitive, in her attempts to live an idyllic life from the past--much like these Revolutionary War or Civil War "renactments"--has acquired some fairly decent skills at making meals out of basic food products, or making much out of nearly nothing.

But I dare the hippowife primitive to make anything edible out of what goes into ethanol.

I doubt even North Koreans starving to death in that socialist paradise of workers and peasants with free medical care for all, would touch the stuff.  It's just simply useless, and has no nutritional or aesthetic value, for either humans or beasts.