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Title: Pre-covid this $$ would have bought a running 'beater' in my town
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on November 22, 2022, 04:22:13 PM
I was in the grocery store today with my newest granddaughter ('little what's her name'*) getting things for Thanksgiving dinner.
Came across this roast in a cooler.....

(https://i.postimg.cc/sfNvG1Fz/20221122-094259-2.jpg)

Some of my daughter's school friends were driving "$100 down, make weekly payments" beaters.  (sort of an automobile)
This may have been the most expensive piece of meat I've ever laid eyes on!

(https://i.postimg.cc/FshNR4zv/20221122-094307.jpg)

I told my wife that if I served that at Thanksgiving, "I'd be charging her relatives by the plate"

Still amazed....

Stig
* I have some 37 or so offspring - at gatherings wife gives me a notebook and the kids are pinned with numbers.
Title: Re: Pre-covid this $$ would have bought a running 'beater' in my town
Post by: randyo on November 22, 2022, 10:04:23 PM
I just spent $240 at the grocery store, first time over $200.  I's been inching up, but it jumped with the recent diesel prices, mighta been 2 days before Thanksgiving, but they were outa a lotta stuff, an no Wickles pickle products in the store at all.

wasn't that long ago, I could overfill a cart for less than $100
Title: Re: Pre-covid this $$ would have bought a running 'beater' in my town
Post by: NorWeWa on November 23, 2022, 02:05:05 AM
Only buying for the two of us, and yes prices are really up.  No sign of weight yet.

Art   
Title: Re: Pre-covid this $$ would have bought a running 'beater' in my town
Post by: Viper254 on November 29, 2022, 11:24:40 AM
To be fair, that is a particularly delicious looking piece of beef.

I'm near vegetarian nowadays - still have the occasional bit of chicken and fish - but the creeping prices of meat are particularly harsh.

It's only 10 years ago I was riding a £100 moped around to work and back.