/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5796190
You can pick junk food (pic related: Richart chocolates) that are very expensive, and healthy food that's very cheap. This person seemed to pick healthy food that's very expensive (raspberries are probably the highest price-per-pound fruit at most US grocers) to try to deceptively make a point.

Raspberries don't produce much per fruit per area of land, harvesting from thorny plants has to be done by hand within a very narrow window of ripeness, and from picking to point of sale requires very rapid delivery, careful packaging to avoid damage, and careful temperature and humidity control. That's why a little tiny box costs so much unless you live near a raspberry farm, and even then they're not cheap (maybe $3 a pound).

Potatoes, by contrast, produce a lot of usable food per acre, allow leeway in the harvest window, and can be mechanically harvested, resulting in a price of 5 cents per pound wholesale from farms this year. They're hardy and easy to transport, and if they're kept in cool, dry, dark storage, they last 2-3 months.