How much do various foods cost where you are?

[Zelig]

Bananas are always crazy cheap here, pretty much the cheapest fruit available by half over anything else.

 

[kronic]

Whole Milk: €0.65/l = $0.85/l (~$3.20/gal) - That's a multi-year high.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oh feel free, you have different ones.

You guys are great, I truly appreciate it.

This is going to sound like I'm making up excuses but I can see the thumbnails in the email - but can't open them. I click to download them and the loading prompt spins round and round and...does nothing.



No idea what's the issue

 

[Farm Boy]

I shouldn't read before coffee.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Bananas are always crazy cheap here, pretty much the cheapest fruit available by half over anything else.

How is that even possible ?
I thought Bananas only grow in tropical or warm climates and would die in any place that has cold winters i.e Canada.

 

[Zelig]

How is that even possible ?
I thought Bananas only grow in tropical or warm climates and would die in any place that has cold winters i.e Canada.

Because a lot of people eat them, and there's a lot of production, so there are good economies of scale.

Economies of scale help a lot with food, and shipping via sea is relatively inexpensive, so locally produced food doesn't have as much of an advantage as you'd expect if the farmer has to derp around in his pickup truck to deliver it.

I just checked my last grocery receipt, paid $1.74/kg.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

No, what I mean is I can't afford to live in the villa and not work, I need the income from it. I'm going there to retire. This goose is cooked.

I'm just gonna build a few more, sell 'em so that one day I'll be able to afford my dream house....cliff top living overlooking the ocean.

I should be going to Bali in August. Can you recomend some cheap place for rent?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I should be going to Bali in August. Can you recomend some cheap place for rent?

No worries. If you PM me with the following I can pretty much arrange it.

Number of people?
Budget?
Do you want to be in the thick of things or a quieter part of town? Are you happy to get around by motorbike/scooter? That opens up wide options.
Self contained? So a small villa with a pool or a hotel?

 

[Borachio]

Because a lot of people eat them, and there's a lot of production, so there are good economies of scale.

Economies of scale help a lot with food, and shipping via sea is relatively inexpensive, so locally produced food doesn't have as much of an advantage as you'd expect if the farmer has to derp around in his pickup truck to deliver it.

I just checked my last grocery receipt, paid $1.74/kg.

No. There's something decidedly fishy going on with the banana trade. Specially between the Carribean and the UK - so maybe involving Commonwealth countries too.

What the details are, I forget. If I ever properly knew.

Or maybe it's all been a horrible dream. From which I may wake up soon.