Ranty food

?!

 

a biased business type site claims (in spite of all the competing articles that food is expensive,)

The people who sell 99c-store stuff for $15,000.00 say, prices are dropping, and we're getting relief.
Do they have the maid do the shopping??
But I wanted to quote CNBC, but the PBS people showed first.

That food prices Dropped "3 tenths of a percent."

Let's put that in context...

Prices rose gobs, as much as 100%, and (o the propaganda) fell point-3/10 of a dollar or less than one penny.
My math won't allow me to write a figure that small.

But I'm most certainly wrong.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecause, 
If a penny is $0.01 then (um)

3/10 of a penny is $0.003?
OK whatever

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category.htm begs to differ...

Stouffer's Lasagna has never been cheap, meat is for the rich, (20.00 steak if the old blog entry still exists) and I rarely look anymore.

(hang on, the editor's gone wonky again)

Well anyway, 4.3%-less more than $20 is still incredibly high 

New math problem: $6.00 minus six-point-four percent is supposed to show how the benevolent largesse of oil relieves us, I don't buy it.

Thanks to wars and supply-chains and weather and your sister

Oil-company gouging is a different subject, draw your own conclusions.
Mine are, once a price goes up for whatever stated reason, it rarely drops.
You're not paying over $6 for gas, food prices were already high a year ago, not dropping (except for the hiccup last month, maybe there was a sale) 

and consumer-stats-by-state haven't been found yet. I'll totally bet that some consumers in some states pay more, de jure or de facto.
And as you can see from the biggie chart, "Food" is relative.
Sugar is food ("bakery products")

And...and

My dinky arthritic graph holds true.

Shit's more expensive, low-end

Someone gave me tuna in an envelope. Maybe that's Your future, not mine.

Cheap assholes.
And Pasta comes in an envelope now, but it doesn't taste as good as dry pasta you boil yourself.
Detergent comes in an envelope.
Do you sense a trend here?
Cheaper crap for more money.

Consider a lowly but expensive brand of canned-shredded-beef from Brazil, which I can't get anymore, at all. Not sure why.
"Libby's" makes a fake substitute, a horrible mashed-up can they call corned beef, but is (must be) an incredibly bad imitation.

They've got the square can down pat....but the meat you could feed to your cat.

American ingenuity at work, charge $5.00 for cat food.

Maybe you thought I was only subway-ranting...

There are people who hate meat in general, and are happy it's so expensive.

O yeah, banning corned beef made SUCH a difference (geez)

They decry oil, and are happy the prices are high.

You could even lump in cigarettes, which are so high.

Rich people making laws don't care about poor smoking meat-eaters.

We're getting relief, thanks to them.

They can't or won't suspend taxes and fees, and sanction countries (Brazil??)

but don't come up with adequate solutions...

Want higher wages? 

Sure. Hang on a second while we raise prices.

Want a war? We love'm! Hang on while we raise prices.

Global warming? Raise prices! That'll teach those damn global warmers.

(The penalties for burning wood or anything else are stiff, you must buy from official sources or freeze)

If you're looking for a snarky final sentence, I don't have the ability to write one.

Some people profit from others' misery, how's that.