That 48-pack is now $30.25 on Amazon. And it's hard to say whether Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes and Frosted Mini Wheats are a real alternative to dinner, but I sorta doubt it.
On the whole, a solid, useful report on a thing that may affect us all, and thank you for it. Except the thing about Wendy's; offering discounts for selected hours is in no way the same as charging higher prices for other selected hours. If it were, my understanding of fundamental economics would be no better than that of a common Peter Navarro. The sole similarity is the variability of prices. On the macro scale, the conflation of the two situations is called "economic loss doctrine", a dubious idea cooked up to defeat regulation, especially in the area of conservation, because "if you won't let me pollute the local water table you restrict my anticipated profits".
If you have a yard with room ,start a garden and grow some of your own food. Also home grown tomatoes taste so much better then the red cardboard they sell at the grocery store. I have three 2x6 foot raised beds and from May to September or October grow all my salad stuff. Drip irrigation to save water and a timer so I don't forget and its almost no work after the initial plantings. So good and saves $$$$$
I forgot the term vulture capitalist. A Society is an ecosystem of sorts but we should not allow it to be structured as pure capitalist. It needs regulations that enforce responsibility industries and corporations. They are remarkably poor at stepping up to shouldering their obligations for worker and community safety. Just look up Love Canal, and the chemical industry's dispose of dioxin contaminated oil by selling it as an additive to the paving used in stabilizing gravel roads. Elon musk has a number of "Brilliant" insights that ignore decades of collected data regarding safe vehicle design that have been reversed, such as having an option to play video games on the drivers display, not implementing Human factor data in the design of warning indicators and don't even get me started on safety issues in the "E" truck.
Don't you just love how the boxes get bigger but the contents shrink? This way, the apparent price stays the same while the real price is raised. The same is true (minus the boxes) for meat, with price increases camouflaged by offering less and less for roughly the same price.
I grew up on Sugar Frosted Flakes, Pepsi, and Laura Scudder's potato chips. Also frozen bricks of vegetables boiled to a uniform shade of gray. Have crappy teeth now. Thanks "mom" and "dad". Now I am fortunate to live in a place with a food co-op, and a girlfriend who, as the produce buyer, knows everything there is to know about produce and its prices. And we get a decent discount. Yay for us!
Beans. Potatoes. Rice. Tortillas. Toss in some GrocOut chicken breast (or not, since the poor birds are abused) or fish or tofu, some veggies if you got the dime. And as the French would say: "There ya go!"
You need a surprisingly small amount of bacon to make a bean wrap taste amazing. Toss in some lettuce and whatever cheap vegetables you can find, and you've got an amazing meal. Cheese is also a good addition if you're into that sort of thing. For a vegetarian option you can replace the bacon with something else, just make sure you replace the following properties of bacon: fat, protein, salt, and umami. More beans takes care of the protein, and beans with salt already taste umami, so you just need to add some fat. Could be cheese, could be a drizzle of oil-based sauce. Not too much in contact with the wrap though, it weakens the wrap.
Play around with it, have fun. And there's nothing wrong with canned or frozen vegetables, just make sure they're defrosted and dry enough not to melt your wrap.
It's been a while since I've done cereal for dinner, but I've done it. I noticed a couple of months ago when I was in WinCo how ridiculously expensive cereal was! I usually buy the Trader Joe's $1.99 box of Joe's Os if I do buy cereal, but now that's not a good option either. Steel-cut oats it is.
When I was feeding a houseful of people, I found cereal to be pretty poor value for what you got. Some of it was probably that my kids didn't like cereal all that much anyway, but I found I could buy a whole lot more macaroni or rice or potatoes for the price of a box of cereal. Half a pound of hamburger and an onion, you can make something that feels like a meal for about the price of cereal and milk.
This is the bookend to the Jet Blue - Spirit Post. Prices cannot rise like this in a market beyond the cost of inputs in the absence of lack of competition or coordinated signaling ( or price fixing, but who knows?).
In addition to the boycott, perhaps a letter-writing campaign to the Kelloggs CEO telling him to get fucked and choke on his waygu prime rib that I'm sure he enjoys frequently. He's sure not having "cereal for dinner". In fact, invite him to enjoy a big horse-cock sandwich sometime soon. Ask nicely, though. Sounds like he's a real sensitive guy.
Time to start sneering at those as only for people who can't think creatively enough and are too lazy to do the work for a real degree that requires real thought and actual effort to understand, like folklore or art history. Why should prestige go to the greed-driven snake oil sales certificates anyway?
I’m buying more and more store brands now, and not so many name brands! These corporations have to show their profits, touting huge numbers of profits, while we have to eat cereal for dinner? I bet not one of them has eaten a bowl of cereal for dinner! It’s corporate greed and nothing else! I get so mad when they’re ringing that bell with “fuck you people” smiles on their faces. It’s #GREEDFLATION! I LOVE WONKETTE!
That 48-pack is now $30.25 on Amazon. And it's hard to say whether Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes and Frosted Mini Wheats are a real alternative to dinner, but I sorta doubt it.
On the whole, a solid, useful report on a thing that may affect us all, and thank you for it. Except the thing about Wendy's; offering discounts for selected hours is in no way the same as charging higher prices for other selected hours. If it were, my understanding of fundamental economics would be no better than that of a common Peter Navarro. The sole similarity is the variability of prices. On the macro scale, the conflation of the two situations is called "economic loss doctrine", a dubious idea cooked up to defeat regulation, especially in the area of conservation, because "if you won't let me pollute the local water table you restrict my anticipated profits".
Autoplaying video? Really?
If you have a yard with room ,start a garden and grow some of your own food. Also home grown tomatoes taste so much better then the red cardboard they sell at the grocery store. I have three 2x6 foot raised beds and from May to September or October grow all my salad stuff. Drip irrigation to save water and a timer so I don't forget and its almost no work after the initial plantings. So good and saves $$$$$
I forgot the term vulture capitalist. A Society is an ecosystem of sorts but we should not allow it to be structured as pure capitalist. It needs regulations that enforce responsibility industries and corporations. They are remarkably poor at stepping up to shouldering their obligations for worker and community safety. Just look up Love Canal, and the chemical industry's dispose of dioxin contaminated oil by selling it as an additive to the paving used in stabilizing gravel roads. Elon musk has a number of "Brilliant" insights that ignore decades of collected data regarding safe vehicle design that have been reversed, such as having an option to play video games on the drivers display, not implementing Human factor data in the design of warning indicators and don't even get me started on safety issues in the "E" truck.
When you pay $6 for an 8-oz. box of cereal, which works out to at most three bowls, how is it anything but gouging?
Don't you just love how the boxes get bigger but the contents shrink? This way, the apparent price stays the same while the real price is raised. The same is true (minus the boxes) for meat, with price increases camouflaged by offering less and less for roughly the same price.
Oh, it's all over the place. Orange juice has gone from 64 oz. to 59 to 57 to 54 to 52. A "pint" of Haagen-Dazs is 14 oz. And the ship sails on...
I grew up on Sugar Frosted Flakes, Pepsi, and Laura Scudder's potato chips. Also frozen bricks of vegetables boiled to a uniform shade of gray. Have crappy teeth now. Thanks "mom" and "dad". Now I am fortunate to live in a place with a food co-op, and a girlfriend who, as the produce buyer, knows everything there is to know about produce and its prices. And we get a decent discount. Yay for us!
Ta, Robyn. I don't eat any Kelloggs products, but if I did I'd boycott.
I really don't eat cereal hardly ever so I'm happy to join the boycott.
Potatoes are the jam if you're a "consumer under pressure". So much bang for the $.
BTW referring to your customers as "consumers" instead of people just shows that you have your head up your ass.
Beans. Potatoes. Rice. Tortillas. Toss in some GrocOut chicken breast (or not, since the poor birds are abused) or fish or tofu, some veggies if you got the dime. And as the French would say: "There ya go!"
You need a surprisingly small amount of bacon to make a bean wrap taste amazing. Toss in some lettuce and whatever cheap vegetables you can find, and you've got an amazing meal. Cheese is also a good addition if you're into that sort of thing. For a vegetarian option you can replace the bacon with something else, just make sure you replace the following properties of bacon: fat, protein, salt, and umami. More beans takes care of the protein, and beans with salt already taste umami, so you just need to add some fat. Could be cheese, could be a drizzle of oil-based sauce. Not too much in contact with the wrap though, it weakens the wrap.
Play around with it, have fun. And there's nothing wrong with canned or frozen vegetables, just make sure they're defrosted and dry enough not to melt your wrap.
and don't for chrissake boil the fuck out of them the way our parents did.
Chef Andres gave us a lovely pea soup recipe that he does with *frozen* peas
https://joseandres.substack.com/p/quick-and-fast-pea-soup
It's been a while since I've done cereal for dinner, but I've done it. I noticed a couple of months ago when I was in WinCo how ridiculously expensive cereal was! I usually buy the Trader Joe's $1.99 box of Joe's Os if I do buy cereal, but now that's not a good option either. Steel-cut oats it is.
Steel cut oats are so good on a cold day
When I was feeding a houseful of people, I found cereal to be pretty poor value for what you got. Some of it was probably that my kids didn't like cereal all that much anyway, but I found I could buy a whole lot more macaroni or rice or potatoes for the price of a box of cereal. Half a pound of hamburger and an onion, you can make something that feels like a meal for about the price of cereal and milk.
The fundamental flaw I see in this strategy is (with a few exceptions) mistaking the products sold by Kelloggs, Nestle, and Coca-Cola for food.
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They're entertainment, not nutrition.
Precisely, Elvis.
This is the bookend to the Jet Blue - Spirit Post. Prices cannot rise like this in a market beyond the cost of inputs in the absence of lack of competition or coordinated signaling ( or price fixing, but who knows?).
In addition to the boycott, perhaps a letter-writing campaign to the Kelloggs CEO telling him to get fucked and choke on his waygu prime rib that I'm sure he enjoys frequently. He's sure not having "cereal for dinner". In fact, invite him to enjoy a big horse-cock sandwich sometime soon. Ask nicely, though. Sounds like he's a real sensitive guy.
Too many MBAs in the mix
Time to start sneering at those as only for people who can't think creatively enough and are too lazy to do the work for a real degree that requires real thought and actual effort to understand, like folklore or art history. Why should prestige go to the greed-driven snake oil sales certificates anyway?
This is why god gave us generic brands. So we don’t have to fund Kellogg’s marketing department.
I’m buying more and more store brands now, and not so many name brands! These corporations have to show their profits, touting huge numbers of profits, while we have to eat cereal for dinner? I bet not one of them has eaten a bowl of cereal for dinner! It’s corporate greed and nothing else! I get so mad when they’re ringing that bell with “fuck you people” smiles on their faces. It’s #GREEDFLATION! I LOVE WONKETTE!