primitives whining about high lettuce prices

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x85685

Oh my.

franksolich is currently afflicted with cold fingers, and so got out the boat and rowed over to Skins's island only one time, to see what seditions and stupidities the cooking and baking primitives are cooking up.

Paper Roses  (1000+ posts)      Mon Feb-21-11 09:19 AM
THE CHRONICALLY HELPLESS PRIMITIVE
Original message

Holy mackerel, Iceberg lettuce, $3.49 a small head?

I just got back from a quick, snowy run for cat food for my new k***y. Still cannot figure out what she likes.
I had planned to make myself a turkey wrap for dinner. I refuse to pay that much for iceberg. Went to salad bar and bought enough mixed greens for my sandwich. Came to 42 cents.

Is this where we are headed?

Denninmi  (636 posts)      Mon Feb-21-11 09:40 AM
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1. Temporarily -- yes. Permanently -- probably.

It's quite a vile brew being mixed up out there in the world -- declining resources, increasing populations, greed and corporate power/influence. Food is just another commodity to make money off of, for the wealthy to exploit. The fact that people die, oh well, too bad, it's still just a commodity to be traded like gold or copper or cotton futures.

I'm not in a good mood now myself. I have a snow day from work, since we got about 10 inches last night, and my boss didn't want to make the drive. Too many right wing idiots on other forums bringing me down. I need to get off the internet and find something useful to do.

I really feel badly for those in a position to have to worry about where their next meal is coming from.

cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Mon Feb-21-11 10:48 AM
THE BAYER ASPIRIN PRIMITIVE
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2. I found all produce to be unbelievably high this week.

The local grocery story had signs up apologizing and saying that flooding and freezing had caused this.

One green pepper for almost $3? Asparagus over $5 a bunch? Cucumbers over $2.50 a piece?

Prices are generally a bit higher over here, due to transportation costs to the island, but this was just outrageous.

NMDemDist2  (1000+ posts)        Mon Feb-21-11 11:25 AM
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3. at least your store had some

none in our town, produce guy apologized and said they were only getting one case a week of iceberg

i don't mind, i only eat romaine these days but still....

Paper Roses  (1000+ posts)      Mon Feb-21-11 11:35 AM
THE CHRONICALLY HELPLESS PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #3
 
4. I agree with you on the Romaine. I rarely buy iceberg.

There is something about the 'crunch' with iceberg in a sandwich that made me go look for a head. That price is nuts, I'll eat the mixed greens with a little less crunch at a lot less $$.

What is going to happen if silliness like this hits the important foods? Diet whether we need it or not.

NMDemDist2  (1000+ posts)        Mon Feb-21-11 11:54 AM
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5. i'm thinking it's the snow we had in the southwest recently

lots of lettuce in Yuma and Imperial Valley that got taken out with the low temps

but it does make you think about 'what would happen if....'

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Mon Feb-21-11 01:25 PM
THE FARMERETTE IN WISCONSIN
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6. produce shortages this week because of a freeze in Mexico

That's what the signs at my market say. My prices aren't as high as yours, PR, but I'm closer to California than you are on the Cape. Still, celery went from 59 cents a pound to 1.29 overnight.

Monique1  (1000+ posts)      Mon Feb-21-11 08:54 PM
THE MONICA LEWINSKY PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #6
 
7. I wanted to buy a cucumber yesterday

but $1.50 for a small cuke that was soft. Sorry, now way. But it is no just v*****s but all products are super high in price.

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-22-11 12:49 AM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE
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8. It was still a buck and a half here in NM on Saturday but we all know that anything that comes from Florida is going to be very expensive because they did have a couple of hard freezes fairly far south this year.

Much produce here comes from California or Mexico, Mexico supplying more every year.

How pricey were leaf lettuces? I find they're much better for wraps than head lettuces are. A particular favorite is purple lettuce, big crisp leaves that work really well with salads.

pengillian101  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-22-11 03:44 AM
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9. Wow!

I hate to shop this week then. Our local (25 miles away) grocery does our in-store purchases for us, when I fax in our order. Fresh v*****s and fruit are always a hit and miss. I might just skip those this time if is not fresh, but also way too much money!

trud  (367 posts)      Tue Feb-22-11 09:17 AM
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10. no string beans for a couple of weeks due to the Florida freeze, the produce guy says. I now have some started in a large indoor container.

Well, franksolich rather suspects one can live without string beans.  For a very long time.

Vinca  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-22-11 05:44 PM
THE VINDICTIVE PRIMITIVE, A NOTORIOUS RE-SELLER
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11. I needed some tomatoes today and found the ones we love that were $1.99 last week are $3.49 this week. I bought them anyway. They're little boxes of hydroponic tomatoes from Maine called "Backyard Beauties." They're so good I actually saved the seeds from one that went bad and I'm going to grow them in the garden this summer.

no_hypocrisy  (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-08-11 01:26 PM
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12. I imagine that isn't the price of organic iceberg lettuce, right?

Paper Roses  (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-08-11 06:03 PM
THE CHRONICALLY HELPLESS PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #12

13. Nope, just general iceberg. I can't afford the organic foods.

I have to shop the end of this week, I dread it.

Well, well.....

And who happens to occupy the White House at the moment?

[ChuckJ]

All I know is that if I were a DUmmie I would be very, very careful when dealing with something like iceberg lettuce. From a distance there's always the chance you could mistake a head of cabbage for a head of iceberg lettuce, and we all know how the cabbage is out to get DUmmies.

[jukin]

Lettuce is hig priced because of the awful case of manmad global warming in the south USA and northern mexico.

See DUches, even if AGW were true it is far preferable to cooling.

People this stupid should get some of those retroactive abortions.

[true_blood]

Hey DUmmies,....remember that BP spill and all you lefties/globull warming whackos wanted a moratorium, while other countries continued to drill right in front of our face?!? Well,....your communist community organizer put one into place. Now you complain about food prices?! What did you think would happen, you primitives?
Liberalism = the mental disorder.

[GOBUCKS]

We're all at the mercy of Big Vegetable.

[IassaFTots]

Oh well hell.  Do they not see that gas prices are going up?  Do they not understand that that alone will make the price go up?  Shoot, I started some lettuce seeds back in October. Planted them in some plastic window boxes, and set em out by the windows.   Bought that pack for a buck, and I haven't purchased lettuce since December. 

[thundley4]

Monique1  (1000+ posts)      Mon Feb-21-11 08:54 PM
THE MONICA LEWINSKY PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #6
 
7. I wanted to buy a cucumber yesterday

but $1.50 for a small cuke that was soft. Sorry, now way. But it is no just v*****s but all products are super high in price.

No one wants a soft cuke.

[GOBUCKS]

No one wants a soft cuke.

CalPig threw it out.

[Wineslob]

Damn these DUmmies are getting DUmber by the day.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/06/2011-03-06_lettuce_hope_high_veg_prices_wilt_soon.html


Second paragraph DUmbasses.

[thundley4]

Damn these DUmmies are getting DUmber by the day.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/06/2011-03-06_lettuce_hope_high_veg_prices_wilt_soon.html


Second paragraph DUmbasses.

So it's the weather's fault, i.e. Mother Nature, that vegetables are so expensive.  Therefore, she must want us to eat more meat.

[Wineslob]

So it's the weather's fault, i.e. Mother Nature, that vegetables are so expensive.  Therefore, she must want us to eat more meat.

Ya that Glowballs Warming, Climate Change,  Manmade Glowballs Warming, ah....  Mother Nature is a real bitch, except for the meat part.

[AllosaursRus]

We're all at the mercy of Big Vegetable.

No, no, no! It's Big Oil! It costs the truckers a pile 'o money to ship that crap to a liberal stronghold, and they are at the mercy of O'bumbler!

[BlueStateSaint]

We're all at the mercy of Big Vegetable.

Yes we are . . .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lelonopo/3887791157/

I couldn't post the shot, so I'll just say that "Big Cabbage" is represented by the photo. 

[AllosaursRus]

Damn these DUmmies are getting DUmber by the day.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/06/2011-03-06_lettuce_hope_high_veg_prices_wilt_soon.html


Second paragraph DUmbasses.

Doesn't effect me, I'm a carnivore! heh!

[DumbAss Tanker]

"I wept because I had to buy salad bar lettuce, but then bobbolink told me she had none at all!"

 

[thundley4]

Walmart had Dole Iceberg lettuce for $1.88.

[GOBUCKS]

I spend $200 or so at the grocery store every week. I honestly could not tell you the price of a single thing. If it looks good, and we don't have it, I buy it. My total varies by $20 or $30 a week, sometimes more, so I don't even know if prices are going up or down. I think most men shop for groceries like that.

[IassaFTots]

I spend $200 or so at the grocery store every week. I honestly could not tell you the price of a single thing. If it looks good, and we don't have it, I buy it. My total varies by $20 or $30 a week, sometimes more, so I don't even know if prices are going up or down. I think most men shop for groceries like that.

Maybe most men, but not mine.  He spends $200 every 6 weeks.  We look at the PPU for fricking everything.  He keeps me in line.  I shop like you.   

[AllosaursRus]

I spend $200 or so at the grocery store every week. I honestly could not tell you the price of a single thing. If it looks good, and we don't have it, I buy it. My total varies by $20 or $30 a week, sometimes more, so I don't even know if prices are going up or down. I think most men shop for groceries like that.

Grocery shoppin' is women's work. I haven't been in one for so long I can't remember the last time. I don't have the patience. That's why "Toots" does it. If I went, I'd buy nothin' but junk food and steak! Not exactly a balanced diet.

No insult meant to our feminine side, but I just don't do it. I've built a few and they're geared for the female population. Men aren't supposed to understand the lay out.

[MP_Sarge]

Has anyone told these people that vegetables are plants?

Y'know... the kind you can grow yourself?

I figured hippies would be all about growing their own.

I'm disappointed.

[AllosaursRus]

Has anyone told these people that vegetables are plants?

Y'know... the kind you can grow yourself?

I figured hippies would be all about growing their own.

I'm disappointed.

Hehehehehehehe!! I've bailed a few of these so called liberal hippie types outa jail when they get caught with the only thing they can grow. Weeds!

Oh, and welcome to the sane side of politics, Sarge! Have ya introduced yourself yet in our lounge?

[MP_Sarge]

Wait... which lounge?

I hafta introduce myself AGAIN?

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,56209.0.html

[AllosaursRus]

Wait... which lounge?

I hafta introduce myself AGAIN?

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,56209.0.html

Hehe! Naw, I musta just missed ya. Gettin' old is hell!