Yeah, the skidmarked underwear primitive, the disconsolate older middle-aged farm-wife from eastern Iowa.
She whines a lot.
It probably doesn't occur to her that those are oats from Hungary, and not from Iowa, and hence hefty transportation costs that add to the price.
Oats from Hungary are cheaper than oats from Iowa, and if Quaker Oats wasn't buying the cheaper oats and thus keeping the cost of its product down, primitives like the skidmarked underwear primitive would be yelling-and-screaming about "high" grocery prices.
If it's that big of a deal to her, perhaps she should grow her own oats.
See here SIR, some of us were raised on oatmeal, a bit of sugar, milk and perhaps berry's in season or a banana.
We were the generation that went to school with a full belly and did not fall asleep in class due to low blood sugar or high sugar due to a school breakfast of Pizza and french fries.
Our parents did not leave us to be fed in schools, the poorest of the poor could feed a family oatmeal for breakfast, lunch and dinner, some did and the kids with 3 meals of oatmeat meal survived. ------" Please sir, more Porridge"
How are we or this poster to know where the oats come from, is it the duty of a woman to research the origions of where a staple comes from ??? Frank, do you know for sure where sugar and flour comes from?????
You Frank are too young to know that Oatmeal fueled the country's poor in the depression, where or how it came was of no import, just that the children were fed as were the the adults, at least we never ate our own as those did in Russia days of starvation.
When the staples of life flour, oats, milk, sugar and rice rise in price, then no one is as you say whining, they have fear of what next, price of corn meal to double, how to feed a family on basic staples---Frank, checked out the price of the most basic protin, Eggs lately????
This is not whining Frank this is fear, Obama has placed us in to an area of threat, to sell to other country's costs us big bucks to do so, and on the other side other sides charge us to allow us to import their goods.
This woman has every right to become alarmed at rising food prices Frank and can you tell me how many people know that Quaker Oats comes from Hungery ?????
BTW Dear Frank, you may buy a 10 pound bag of rice with Produced of Georgia on it, in the world of marketing, this rice may have been imported to a Company with headquarters in Georgia bagged and sent out of the plant, as a now product of Georgia, but it itself may come from most anywhere, this does not mean it was grown in Georgia.
