/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18764502

idk man, my dad was making $6.45/h as a maintenance tech then, we were having a bad time. 15 years later and 2 company switches he's at $29/h for the same workload and I hired into a warehouse for $22/h when 5 years ago getting anything above $12/h was impossible unless I wanted to deal with chemical loads and biohazards for $2-3 more kek

>sale only lasts a week

and most of the items on there are only up about 20-30% nowadays at the kroger I go to. living in a purple-turned-blue state kinda slaps desu fampai, my sympathies

>>18764514
You can often do better than those prices when stuff is on sale. I got 5 lb of potatoes for a dollar last month and avocados under a dollar each aren't uncommon.

>>18764546
>2 things out of the 50 are still cheaper

>>18764502
>speedless grapes
>kool-aid crammers
>poor family toppings

No thank you.

>>18764514
I've seen most of those produce items that cheap at some point this year.

>>18764502
>"we had it good"
we didn't.
as long as money exists nobody has it good.

>>18765226
baked and breadpilled

>>18765226
What, you want everyone wearing rags and eating each other anon?

>>18764531
>living in a blue state is good

I live in a blue state and an overwhelmingly blue city and everything is fucking overpriced.

You and your retarded dad are the type of subhumans who fall for "vote bloo no matter who", no wonder you lot are poor and have stayed poor.

>>18764502
stop being poor
thanks

>Ohio

>>18764502
>>18764514
I thought this was gonna be evocative from the thumbnail but honestly... You can still get store-brand chicken breast family-packs for $1.69/lb on sale occasionally, the produce is a couple cents cheaper, and all the packaged goods are store-brand. This is nothing. Show me eggs for 69 cents a dozen like they were two years ago and bacon for 1.99/lb. Biggest thing here is 5/$10 doritos bags but it's doritos and these "buy ten for ten dollars" things are nothing. Who's buying 10 loaves of sandwich bread or 10 bags of salad mix at a time? Maybe if you're catering an event...

>>18765530
You'll understand when you get a job. You know what I got paid to drive a fuel truck in Wyoming? 16.50 an hour. You know what I got paid to drive a fuel truck in Louisiana? 19 an hour? You know what I get paid to drive a fuel truck in Massachusetts? 32.31 an hour with a vested pension after 5 years a 6 weeks of vacation a year.

>>18764531
>thinks $29/hr for a trade job is good
lmao that job pays 150k/year here

>>18765226
>as long as money exists nobody has it good.

>>18764502
You niggas were also making like $7 an hour at the time
Food prices were fine before rapid inflation outpaced wage growth last year

>>18765226
Based marxist anon

>take me back bros

>>18765571
Dubai?

>>18764502
>back in my day you could buy a .... for a ...
Such is the nature of binge-purge economy.

>>18765571
it's almost like cost of living varies by area or something

>>18765713
>No baptists
Theologically BASED and Red Pilled

>>18765570
Yeah and your rent was 3x that of the other states. So all your extra income went to rent jackass.

t. Grew up in Mass

>>18765713
>zeroed in on grass
>was confused for a full minute until reading the rest of the page
Low iq moment

>>18764502
The prices I see at my store are really not that much different except for the highly processed packaged foods, which are several times more expensive.

>>18765521
i could do without the rags.

>>18765632
imagine not knowing that money is the worst invention man has ever come up with.

>>18765713
>pre chewed raisins
>grass
>cheese NIPPLES

Wtf

>>18765713
Lmao

>chicken is the same price now that it was 20 years ago
>every processed food is 2-3x cheaper
i thought the point of processed food was to be easier and cheaper to make, but they just keep getting worse AND more expensive every single year

>>18765713
$3.39 for a 50 lb. bag of Activated Boron
what a ripoff

>>18766595
How is it same by you? For me chicken breast is close to 4.99 /lb even drumsticks are 1.99 /lb

>>18765226
mentally ill marxist

>>18766595
>chicken is the same price now that it was 20 years ago

whats up with the blatant lies

>>18766611
>>18766627
when i see it on sale at my harris teeter chicken breast value packs are 1.59/lb
they were regularly .99/lb before the pandemic
when it's not on sale i don't buy it

>>18766595
assraping the golem because they've shown that they'll buy it at any price

>>18765571
That wasn't even the point, nincompoop. OP was talking about cost of living on the basis of the nominal price of things, and anon introduced the vital factor of income relative to expense.

>>18764502
remeber the rule of doubling. Take 70 and divide it by % of implied inflation. 7% yearly inflation = every 10 year prices DOUBLE.

>>18764502
>whipped topping
Non-American here- is that some kind of hydrogenated palm-corn-soy-oil monstrosity that's supposed to replace whipped cream?

>>18768206
It's cool whip. Sort of it's own thing