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Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:20:55 2019 No.12035472 [Reply] [Original]

American grocery stores are so depressing compared to cultures that actually cook. The prices on rice and noodles are insane. And if you want spices...fucking forget it. The best you can expect is a tiny 3 oz. plastic bottle. Go into an Indian grocery store, and you can buy a pound of cumin for like a dollar or two. Go into a Chinese grocery store and get a 50 lb. bag of rice for $17. You can't even buy that much rice at an American grocery store. The best you can probably do is 10 lbs. and you're looking at $1/lb on a regular day. You want some bones to make a soup at Walmart or Kroger? Hah! They only carry packaged meats. Those "butchers" are the same warehouse employees but wearing white coats. Ramen? Maruchan and Nissin. If you're lucky, they might carry Nongshim or Ottogi, but don't count on it. A small bottle of soy sauce is like $4. The same money would buy you 1.5 liters at a Chinese grocery store. And the brands are the worst part. You've got a few national brands who take up the whole fucking store. Reese's, Hershey's, Lay's, Coca Cola Co., Kellog, Stouffer's, etc. and all of that shit is owned by ConAgra, most likely.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:27:59 2019 No.12035510 So what's your point? Everyone knows this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:31:07 2019 No.12035531 assblasted 3rd worlder thread #1736372

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:33:15 2019 No.12035534 >>12035472 >Go into an Indian grocery store imagine the smell

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:33:32 2019 No.12035535 >>12035510 First sentence.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:34:40 2019 No.12035538 >>12035531 Also the US has among the highest purchasing power per capita so they dont need to make everything dirt cheap for poor people

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:34:45 2019 No.12035539 >>12035472 You can find all kinds of cuts of meat you lying nigger. As for the rest of your complaints just stop being poor. Wow boohoo you can’t buy d-day prep quantities of rice and cumin.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:40:58 2019 No.12035567 Hoy hoy dumb Americans you Stoopid you no eat gutter oil. Haha you fools

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:43:51 2019 No.12035583 the price per lb when buying a big sack or a kilo of rice is barely different

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Anonymous Thu Mar 14 18:46:49 2019 No.12035603

I've seen those large packages of Indian spices OP is talking about, and the Hindi labels had this line in English "Not for Human Consumption".

The spices are cheap because they're grown in human shit, processed in human shit, packaged in human shit, to cover the taste of rotting slop food that's also contaminated with human shit... so obviously since the "spices" won't pass inspection in the USA as a "food" have to have that bit on the label.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 19:06:15 2019 No.12035697 >>12035603 t. assblasted wh*toid

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 20:31:45 2019 No.12036065 Go to Winco/Costco/Sam's Club. Problem solved.

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Anonymous Thu Mar 14 20:44:14 2019 No.12036099

>>12035472
where are you shopping?
3 oz. plastic bottles means you're shopping in retarded places.
And no you can't get a 50 lb. bag of rice at a grocery store, no individual buyer needs rice for that many people, but a 10 lb. bag isn't anywhere close to $1/lb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 21:01:23 2019 No.12036157 >>12035697 t. eater of literally assblasted spices

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 21:44:07 2019 No.12036312 >>12036065 This. Also Wegman's is amazing if you're an east coast lad

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 22:18:34 2019 No.12036437 >>12035472 >indian grocery store No thanks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 14 22:20:36 2019 No.12036442 File: 65 KB, 600x450, 1459998101839.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >American food culture

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Anonymous Fri Mar 15 01:15:40 2019 No.12036913

>>12035472
>all of that shit is owned by ConAgra, most likely

Reese's is the name of a candy made by Hershey

Lay's and Coca Cola are both owned by PepsiCo

Kellogg is it's own separate company

Stouffer's is a Nestle brand

Stop talking, you'll look smarter

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 01:17:38 2019 No.12036917 >>12035534 Imagine the rats and roaches.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 01:18:25 2019 No.12036921 >>12035472 I only buy Uncle Ben's instant microwavable rice packets anyway. The texture/firmness of the rice is better than anything I've ever tasted cooked the traditional way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 02:44:56 2019 No.12037073 >>12035472 >Why don't Americans buy food they don't buy? ......

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 02:47:44 2019 No.12037078 >>12035472 Everyone other than deep flyovers have Indian and Chinese grocery stores, dum dum.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 02:49:13 2019 No.12037079 >>12035472 >massive grocery chains with nationwide distribution networks prefer working with massive suppliers that can distribute goods across their massive network. Zozzles my nozzle for sure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 02:59:49 2019 No.12037094 >>12036913 Your point might stand, but Pepsi doesn’t own Coca Cola.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 03:09:15 2019 No.12037110 File: 276 KB, 970x1481, 1531899926198.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >more obese then the people buying rice by the tonne how do they do it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 15 07:53:09 2019 No.12037450 File: 92 KB, 800x800, 1550548561746.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12035472