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Most junk food in the US has gone off the rails in terms of price. Like seriously, don't spend money on food that has zero nutritional value and is actively harmful to your health. You'll feel so much better and your bank account will be so much bigger.
I guess I have corporate America to thank for no longer buying chips, candy, or baked goods that I might've otherwise splurged on as a treat. Can't justify it with prices the way they are.
I was with you, up until baked goods. What's wrong with baked goods? A nice loaf of bread freshly baked from a bakery? Or maybe a baked potato with cheese and bacon? Or maybe a big bag of pot.........wait, sorry. Wrong kind of baked.
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I think baked goods as a treat would be cakes or cookies.
Also from what I hear in USA bread is generally of very poor quality, but probably better from a baker.
Mass produced, store bought bread is trash, but you can also find some of the nest quality bread you'll ever taste if you go to specialty bakers insteadof supermarkets. I live in Wyoming and I can buy breads made with heirloom grains that are actually highly nutritious. The same applies to cookies, etc. Remember, the USA is a major producer of grains. We grow grain of exceptional quality. We just don't sell it to our own people at a discount. We export the good stuff for profit and eat the low quality high yield stuff.
Most of us have plenty really good bread options, it's just many people choose poorly
Good bread is available here but people are cheap and lazy so they don’t go looking for it.
Funny, some of the best bread here is also some of the cheapest.
As a Dane I eat a lot of rye-bread, and Schwarzbrot is the best IMO.
It is also cheap, because it is very simple to make. And being simple to make, makes it high quality because there aren't a lot of additives.
But AFAIK the cheap bread in USA is simply illegal in EU, because it uses additives that aren't allowed here.
Anyways, yes of course you can get quality, but bread should not be expensive just because it is of proper quality, the ingredients used to make good bread are dirt cheap.
You can find affordable bread without added sugar here too but it’s less common in rural areas where ‘food deserts’ are a thing. This is why we have so many fat people. We add too much sugar to everything.
Even red meat. I've basically given up on beef and pork because it's so expensive. Just tofu or poultry these days.
I'm with you about forgoing chips/candy these days. I can't get behind paying 3 bucks for a small snickers bar.
I will say it has me baking more these days if I want something sweet or want bread. Thank God tortillas are still cheap, I have no idea how to make them... yet.
Corn tortillas are easy and taste great fresh. Buy Masa Harina and use the recipe on the bag. (2 cups masa harina, ½ tsp salt, 1½-2 cups hot water.)
If you aren't sure enough to buy a 5-pound bag, Bob's Red Mill sells a 624-gram bag with complete instructions on the back. Remember to plan ahead to let the dough rest an hour to absorb the water, and have waxed paper or a cut ziploc bag to flatten it between.
Don't try to use corn meal or polenta. The nixtamalization of the corn before grinding is important.
Flour tortillas aren't hard either, plenty recipes online.
Costco sells uncooked tortillas from TortillaLand, and they’re fucking amazing. Cook like 60 seconds in a hot skillet on each side and you get a fresh, hot tortilla. No oil or anything needed. It’s wonderful. If you can find them, I’d recommend checking them out.
Only downside is because they’re uncooked, they have a limited fridge life, unlike the pre-cooked ones, but they taste soooo much better.
Frito Lay fucked up by charging $7 for a bag of chips. It took a chunk out of their profits when people stopped buying them. They have reversed course for now.
During the pandemic... PepsiCo raised prices ... By the third quarter of 2022, net pricing was up 20% from a year earlier.
senior managers made clear they didn’t want to go backward on prices,
the company’s stock down more than 20% from a peak in 2023
company tried anything else that might lure customers: promotions, shrinkflation. None of it worked.
PepsiCo ... planned to lower prices ... Up to 15% off some snacks, Laguarta described the cuts as “very surgical.” It also underwent a series of cost cutting measures, including layoffs.
PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta receives an annual base salary of approximately $1.69 million, with a total annual compensation package—including stock awards, options, and performance bonuses—totaling roughly $23.9 million to $28.8 million
Pictured: A Fucking Moron.
This particular store is heavily inflated. The exact same bar at the store by me is $3.29.
It's also 6 servings worth, and the whole bar is 720kcal.
Wow they really do make it hard to find the "And I raped kids" version
This follows my conspiracy theory that grocery stores in areas with high SNAP benefits ussge increase the prices on everything significantly. I have some family in an area where a lot of people rely on SNAP, and spent $20 on a pack of five hot dogs.
But I don't understand how this candy is SNAP eligible. Last year SNAP began banning snacks & sweets & junk food.
Old photo maybe?
I think eligibility varies state to state
At least it's snap eligible
Ya...and you can only get snap if you work 80 hrs a week, have written consent from your boss, your past 4 bosses, the blood of a tainted saint, the pubes of a dead god, the hymen of a virgin, And 3 hearts from a slain dragon.
I think those can all be obtained on Epstein Island
But if you break it in half, you'll have 2 bars, and that's like 50% off! Break it again, 50+50 that's 100% off! Why stop there?! Trump did say he was gonna cut prices by 700%.
Promises made, Americans wept 🙃
It's junk food, not fancy nice food. It's bad for you, full stop. Nobody is going to pay that price for junk food. This also goes for fast food that now thinks it's some luxury food, it's not, it's still junk. For God sakes, stop giving these soulless,oney sucking corporations your money. It's that simple. This bs stops when the money stops.
The corporations setting prices are all in cahoots to put all the fat poor fucks on a diet, or criminalizing them if the people resort to stealing the overpriced junk food they're addicted to.
Seriously, for that price you could eat real foodlike substances, perhaps even something that was in the ground more recently than it was in a factory.
Gotta disagree with the "no one will pay for it" part of your comment though. People can't get enough of anything that's bad for them! Most of them will sit there in their micro plastic shedding clothes, not getting exercise, under a UV light, smoking a cigarette while drinking alcohol and downing Tylenol and Advil by the bottle, while blasting their eyeballs with blue light and huffing VOCs before they ever touch a raddish.
No, it doesn't. They influence the FDA and it's "generally as safe" stuff.
Im willing to bet most people do not look at the price tag before buying it. Same with soda, chips, etc. Maybe they don't even look at the register. They just swipe their card, same as always.
Funny how they say it's 120 calories per 1/8th of the pack 🙄 Yeah guys, that's how people eat candy bars.
1/8th at a time.
The online nutrition information for a king size is similar, in that it says 150 calories for 1/3 of the bar. So the individual one is about 450 calories, while 2 of them is 960, 60 calories more than it should be.
Or I'm reading the fine print on the packaging wrong, in which case it says 120 calories per 1/6th of the pack, which would bring it out to 720 calories, or, two bars smaller than the "king size," which seems deceptive, considering the packaging says it's a "super king 2 bars."
Just deceptive marketing and shrinkflation, all wrapped up in one shitty package!
Canadian here, I remember years ago going to the US, we were at par for money, and a candy bar in the US was like $1 or $2. So the $2 chocolate bar was $2 for us too.
Now this US$6.49 is basically CA$10, it is insane!
a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.
this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.
edit: I'm wrong, that says 2 Bars on the edge, not 2 pounds (why is lbs short for pounds anyway?!)
Lbs is a shortened version of the Greek word for measuring scales. So it actually doesn‘t mean a specific weight, but more like “weighed” or something.
While true that originally it also meant "balance" (in late latin we later got the word bilanx for scales - literally two plates), lb is for latin libra, and it was an actual specific weight (with a corresponding economical value in the Roman as coin) in use since the Roman republic, and it has remained in use for more than two millennia all over the world (with slighly different values depending on time and place, but usually between 350-450grams). It's not an accident the the UK pound stirling coin still has the same L shaped symbol £, same as the italian lira, etc
I am so glad I am not the only one who thought that this was a 2 pound bar..
What type of store is this in?
Gas stations, or department stores around me gouge the shit out of you for snacks/candy. Easily $5-6cad for a chocolate bar. A dollar store though, usually sells an Oh Henry (~58g) for $1.25 or $2 for a 'share size' (the 2 smaller bars in one package ~82g).
Still not great, but much better than $6.50 (USD I assume)
Don't buy it?
