[MidwesternMom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gothor', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', 'W')hy the hell can't you get lemon juice anymore?

It seems always to be OS.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MidwesternMom', '.')..
Yeah what's up with that? I normally can get lemons 3/1.00 in kansas on sale, and i don't think they have many lemons trees around here. It just disturbs me that I can get it cheaper than people who live near the food source, shouldn't locals get it for cheaper?

[misterno]

I am sorry I don't understand it

Howcome Hawaiian pineapple costs cheaper in NY than in Hawaii?

Is this a joke? If not can someone please explain?

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterino', 'I') am sorry I don't understand it Howcome Hawaiian pineapple costs cheaper in NY than in Hawaii? Is this a joke? If not can someone please explain?

[bruce2288]

Coconuts were free when I was in BoraBora. Just pick one up off the side of the road.

[Lanthanide]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'I') am sorry I don't understand it Howcome Hawaiian pineapple costs cheaper in NY than in Hawaii? Is this a joke? If not can someone please explain?

[misterno]

I still don't get it, but maybe it is me.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'I') am sorry I don't understand it Howcome Hawaiian pineapple costs cheaper in NY than in Hawaii? Is this a joke? If not can someone please explain?

[misterno]

My brother moved from suburbs of San Fransisco (Oakland) to Houston couple of years ago. He is amazed with the cheap fruit in Houston which has California label on them. He says same California labeled fruit is at least 2-3 times more expensive in California which does no make sense.

Anybody knows why? He says some of the labels indicate towns which is 100 miles away from Oakland. So what is going on here? By the way greater Houston area has no agricultural industry.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'M')y brother moved from suburbs of San Fransisco (Oakland) to Houston couple of years ago. He is amazed with the cheap fruit in Houston which has California label on them. He says same California labeled fruit is at least 2-3 times more expensive in California which does no make sense.
Anybody knows why? He says some of the labels indicate towns which is 100 miles away from Oakland. So what is going on here?
By the way greater Houston area has no agricultural industry.

[jlw61]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'I') am sorry I don't understand it. Howcome Hawaiian pineapple costs cheaper in NY than in Hawaii? Is this a joke? If not can someone please explain?

[ReverseEngineer]

OK, so now that Der Spiegel has declared dead American Capitalism, I am looking for some of our group experts to make a prediction on how long it takes for the food to start disappearing off the shelves, or for the prices to start doubling and tripling daily? Or when do the Airlines stop flying completely? When does the crash on Wall Street really hit Main Street?

[Snowrunner]

IMO too early to call.

I think that the central banks pumped USD into the markets instead of their own currencies is telling, they seem to be "sorta kinda" on board.

The next warning sign will be a decline of the USD again against major currencies (most likely the Euro first) but we aren't over the cliff yet, it is still a (somewhat) controlled slide towards the abyss.

[The_Virginian]

REAL PATRIOTS EAT....

In order to stimulate the economy.

[Oil_be_alroit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Snowrunner', 'I') think that the central banks pumped USD into the markets instead of their own currencies is telling, they seem to be "sorta kinda" on board.

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oil_be_alroit', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Snowrunner', 'I') think that the central banks pumped USD into the markets instead of their own currencies is telling, they seem to be "sorta kinda" on board.

[heroineworshipper]

Food prices here doubled in the 6 months after the first rate cut. Expect another doubling.

[TheDude]

Dueling headlines:

Soaring Food Prices Push 75 Million More People Into Hunger

Consumer prices ease slightly

New Orlov piece: Survival of the nicest?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd so collapse, for you, is likely to turn out to be a deeply personal experience. Furthermore, if you manage to survive it, chances are, you will be none to eager to divulge the details of how you made it, for they will not be edifying. The process of survival is only enjoyable if it is experienced vicariously -- at someone else's expense.

I recently picked up a book about castaways, and was amazed to discover that the introduction to the book spells out this very idea succinctly and in good prose, perhaps better than I could, so I will reproduce a piece of it here:

Certainly it helps to be marooned with somebody else, for you can commiserate, quarrel, an feud like newlyweds, and when things really get difficult, you can always eat him, or vice versa... When the going gets tough, the tough get eaten. Cannibalism like so many other customs, is merely a state of mind. Over the centuries famine repeatedly drove Europeans and Asians alike to eat everything, including each other. The culinary genius of the French and the Chinese, working with nothing more than a few spices and a bit of garic, turned famine food into such delicacies as snails, sea slugs, and stewed bats, garnished with larvae, pupae, and spawn -- all, like escargot, under more elegant names. And while doughboys in the trenches of World War I were driven insane by body lice and other vermin, political prisoners, POWs, and castaways savor them in their gruel as if they were herbs from Provence. One culture's famine food is another's caviar.

In the case of survival cannibalism, society seasons its judgments with something akin to garlic by conveniently applying certain criteria: Was the main course already dead of natural causes? If not, was a lottery properly conducted before the murder, and are the culprits suitably pious, making analogies to Holy Communion? In this way, the survivors of a plane crash in the Andes could make a group decision to eat some of their number, and walk away heroes. It is only a short distance from the Andes to Soylent Green.

But what is customary is comforting. Cannibalism is a social affair. Solitary survival is not. Solo survivors are a breed apart. Confronted by extreme solitude, by starvation, an by no prospect of rescue, they do not sit around long pining in self-pity but set about urgent practical matters. In some cases this reveals strength of character, tenacity, and the will to live. In others it reveals only animal cunning and stubbornness. Sensitivity and imagination are terrible disadvantages in the crunch. Unusual among these tales because of its painful and pathetic revelations is the diary of a nameless castaway on Ascension Island. Unlike other classical accounts, in which the survivor returns to civilization to enlarge endlessly on his own ingenuity, this victim was much too sensitive for his own good. He kept a diary frankly revealing his misery, his mistakes, his melancholy, his weakness of character, and his hallucinations. The diary is singularly lacking in excuses. Perhaps because he was overly absorbed in his own failings and inadequacies, his struggle failed, and he diary was found beside his bones.

[TheDoctor]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'O')K, so now that Der Spiegel has declared dead American Capitalism, I am looking for some of our group experts to make a prediction on how long it takes for the food to start disappearing off the shelves, or for the prices to start doubling and tripling daily? Or when do the Airlines stop flying completely? When does the crash on Wall Street really hit Main Street?

Reverse Engineer

[kpeavey]

While shipping, utility and payroll expenses increase steadily, resulting in constant price pressures, there are discontinuities in the agricultural system that will create surges in pricing. Monocropping is performed in order to maximize efficiency in large corporate farming. Vast areas of a single crop are served at particular times. When the contracts to purchase these crops are renewed, this is when sudden price pressures begin to extend down the supply chain.

I would look to the futures markets for a better idea of when.