/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10352139
>Why is vodka so expensive in USA?
marketing
>Is this price a rip off?
Yes. Get something that's less of a meme.
Vodka is 38.5% grain alcohol, and the rest of it is water. If anyone tries to be snotty about vodka, punch them.

>>10352139
Get taaka

>>10352151
I need to buy vodka for my frat brothers will they be ok if I buy cheap stuff?

>>10352153
>Paying for friends and 5/10 alkie girls

>>10352139
I live in Chicago and frequent Binny's. They often have the best prices and a massive selection. That doesn't seem too high for me. Of course I could get a much cheaper bottle for less if I wanted to.

*blocks your path*

>>10352159
>I live in Chicago
Admitting to living in chiraq.
At least say you're from the burbs.

>>10352151

its subject to excise tax brainlet

25 bucks for a fifth of geese sounds right. But I would buy Stoli instead.

>>10352150
Huh?

>>10352139
Skyy Vodka and only Skyy Vodka.

>>10352139
yes, Grey Goose is a ripoff

>>10352153
literally just buy handles of popov. make a meme out of it, college kids love that kind of stupid shit.

You should be able to buy a liter of it for like $13 bucks (lower end than greygoose mind you)

>>10352151
should be 40% brah

>>10353433
This is surprisingly good

That price seems about right, reach for the stuff on the bottom shelf.

>>10352139
Expensive???? Dude a 700ml bottle of grey goose in my country is like $70, pic related.

>>10352139
>>10352175
>>10353631
Compared to Canada, American booze prices are cheap. Compared to Mexico, American prices are expensive. Yikes to New Zealanders.

>>10352139

>>10352175
god bless australia

>>10352139
you realize you can get the trashest shit on the shelf, run it through a charcoal filter a few times, and have grey goose-tier vodka, right?

This would be just a hair under 50 US dollars

>>10353631
That's New Zealand Dollars which makes it's price 54.7 USD.

>>10352175
That's AUD so it's 49.33 USD

>>10353718
$25 buckaroos here in USA!

>>10353717
No tell me how

>>10352139
that's twenty dollars less than it was in 2009ish. it's also fifteen dollars more than a fifth of burnettes

>>10353740
We know from OP >>10352139

>>10353718
For 50ml less.

If you insist on Grey Goose just buy the generic Costco version. If you're trying to impress people pour it into an empty Grey Goose bottle.

>>10353717
Is this a real life hack that can be easily done?

>>10353744
literally what I said

>>10353771
yes

>>10352175
God bless Mr. Daniel Murphy

>>10352153
Buy titos silly

>>10352153
they're frat brothers
of course it is you dip
buy Smirnoff if you really care but that's as expensive as you should go

>>10353677
Hello my bc friend

Yeah, it's rough up here. You should see it out in Iceland, I've got some family out there and every fucking time, all the booze is stupid expensive because they tax based on volume OF alcohol, not alcohol BY volume.

>>10352139
>Why is vodka so expensive in USA?
how much is it suppose to cost?

>>10352153
>will they be ok

>>10353921
So 700ml of beer is taxed the same as 700ml of vodka?

>>10353934
free

>>10352139
I will never, ever, ever

EVER

EVER

understand why people pay more than absolute rock bottom prices for vodka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrKjZrg-eA

I think I am being memed every timed by you idiots. Save your money for the brown stuff that actually tastes like something

>>10353740
kurwa pierogi
that`s a fucking rip-off a literal meme created by French jews

>>10353963

>bottom shelf popov wins out over lower mid-range shit like smirnoff and svedka

No. Just no. As a real professional alcoholic who doesn't make any money from it I can say that Popov is not good. I do blind taste tests all the time when I pull a random handle out from under my bed in the middle of the night, and every time I pull Popov I know immediately. Maybe I've just bought skunky bottles in the past - because lower end vodka is pretty inconsistent in general - but Popov is absolute shit. I do agree with him that price doesn't often correspond to quality with vodka, but this guy losses all respect in my blood shot eyes when he chooses Popov.

>>10352139
>USA
>Expensive
Try Australia.

>>10354057

Is everything expensive in Australia or do you just have high alcohol taxes and import tariffs? It seems like you fuckers are always drunk.

>>10353963
This, remember kids, the cheaper the vodka the better.

>>10354071
Well, both. Everything is way more expensive, especially shit like alcohol and cigarettes.

>>10354073

>especially shit like alcohol and cigarettes

But is that because of taxes and the government trying to incentivize cutting down on bad habits? I'm originally from Hawaii and things were expensive because it was a tourist destination and almost everything needed to be shipped from the mainland, but you're an entire continent.

>you just buy kirkland vodka which is the exact same thing but cheaper

>>10354079
We do definitely have higher taxes on those goods to try combat bad habits, but we also profit a lot off the sales of them. But why everything else is also way more expensive is beyond me.

>>10354101
Because we are a nation of leaners, not lifters.

>>10354071
>>10354073
Minimum wage is a lot higher in Oz than the States and Canada
AU: $18.29
CAN: $10.85-$14.00
USA: $7.25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country

>>10354139
Which is accounted for in the exchange rate, but everything still seems much more expensive after converting to $US.

>>10354139

Too drunk and tired to look it up, but is there any US state that actually pays federal minimum wage? I don't remember the last time I've met anyone who makes under $10/hr.

>>10354188
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States#List_by_jurisdiction

>>10354210

>mississippi
>none

Fucking hell, what's wrong with the South?

>>10354220
>No state minimum wage law. Federal rates apply, although some small businesses exempt from FMWA may not be covered.

>>10354232

At least cigarettes are dirt cheap down there. Used to work with someone who would take orders for cartons when her family came up to visit.

Literally just run it through a water purifier if you want high quality vodka. It's all the same shit, just difference in distilling

>>10354071
Everything is expensive in Australia. Domestic production of a lot of agricultural things is low, because the entire middle part of their country is an ancient red desert full of spiders and snakes and flies and abbos. So they have to import a ton of shit, and then they put huge goddamned taxes on everything to support the melange of white trash and African savages that serve as an underclass in a nation full of convicts, Plus an $18 minimum wage means everything's more expensive (although you can still get great deals at farmer's markets).

p.s. Sydney and Melbourne are pretty trash, fuck around Brisbane and go to Australia Zoo, then either fuck around the NT or go through the wine country, boozing and eating sausages and making friends with doggos. Or just go to NZ, it's much nicer overall and the food's better.

>>10354282

So it's basically like Hawaii except not pretty and all the wildlife is going to kill you? I watched a documentary a few years ago about your toads and it turns out they are the same ones in Hawaii, that infested the place from sugarcane imports back in the day.

>>10354282
Actually, our agriculture is pretty self sufficient. Very little of the raw produce sold to the consumer originates overseas. It's manufacturing that is screwed here. There is very little value adding industry left, to the point that we sell unprocessed ore to China and then buy the finished steel back from them.

>>10352227
Not him, but Taaka is pretty cheap, but decent tasting.

I usually get Borski. It's 8.99 for a 1.75 lt jug and it's pretty smooth for the price.

>>10354220
They still have to follow the federal minimum.

>>10352139
>Why is vodka so expensive in USA?
If you are buying any name brand of vodka (e.g. Grey Goose; Svedka; Belvedere) it's marketed to all hell and people will buy it regardless of quality or price. Federal alcohol tax is significant, but individual states levy alcohol taxes on top of that and it can get outrageous.
The best part of drinking vodka is that even cheap vodkas are so devoid of taste that they can easily substitute in any mixed drink, so unless you intend to drink it neat, you can buy a $10 fifth and still make out alright

>not buying russian standard and beluga when super fancy

>>10354100
This or other cheap shit and filter it.

>>10359252
Listerine?

>blocks your bottom shelf