Comment on Damn! Food prices are as high as they were in the 90s! by saarnok

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saarnok · 8/22/2026, 3:45:56 AM · permalink

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dickie · 8/22/2026, 5:34:38 PM · permalink

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saarnok · 8/24/2026, 3:20:15 AM · permalink

Little teeny tiny stoner brain can't wrap it's mind around the fact that I was not doing "research" of any kind, let alone "historical price research.  
  
I was making an observation. An observation anyone else can make if they want to.  
  
Do you get that you pot-brain idiot? Not research. Observation.  
  
Here's your source for what you said as provided by you. YOU. That's it. Nothing else.  
  
You're not providing a link to the data you're claiming and your first hand knowledge of the pot you smoked to get this way is the counter example of the point you're trying to make.  
  
And, again, your teeny tiny pot brain can't understand these facts because they just aren't what you decided was true before you started. It's just not physiologically possible for you to put the facts together and synthesize a new conclusion.  
  
Now, let's upgrade my claim. In real terms, that is to say hours worked vs how much food those hours buy, Food costs are down over a 50 year period.  
  
Per hour wages have increased roughly 5.6X while food costs have risen about 4X, at least according to the brave AI search function which claims to be citing BLS just as you are claiming, and like you, it doesn't provide a link to the information which I suspect is the same reason you didn't provide a link because the AI you used didn't give you one.  
  
Accordingly, the "time price" as it calls it, fell 20% between 1995 and 2020 and in a follow up it acknowledged the number of hours worked per week has fallen which would produce a budgetary tightening despite the higher wages per hour.  
  
But, you moron, the point is that making an observation of what a propmaster thought was an appropriate price in 1993 compared to what I actually pay now is not "historic price research.  
  
And, here's another point. I've been paying close attention to what I pay for food for the most part of two decades. Hot dogs are up. Hamburger is up. Butter is the same. Exactly the same. It's been higher, but it's never been lower. Eggs? Trivial. Potatoes. Same. Onions? Same. Good steak? Same. Lower than it's been in some cases.  
  
You're not only wrong, you're stupidly wrong. Even the one thing you actually know about demonstrates in that weird case, dramatically falling prices.  
  
I tell you again, you stupid fucking stoner. Not "historic price research". Observation.  
  
Don't lie about me to me again or I'll ban you.  
  
Now, I get that your pot-brain can't assimilate this. But, we're trying to push it in there anyway.

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