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Parent Post: Damn! Food prices are as high as they were in the 90s!
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saarnok
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8/24/2026, 3:20:15 AM
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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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dickie
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8/24/2026, 5:40:11 AM
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You’ve now given me wage theory, food affordability, controlled-atmosphere storage, your grocery-shopping autobiography, and several diagnoses of my brain. But you still haven’t given me the fucking price from The Nanny. At this point, Columbo would be embarrassed to keep asking. **What fruit? What price?** Until you answer that, your original “observation” is not something “anyone can check.” There is literally nothing to check. You keep insisting it was merely an observation. Fine. **Then tell us what you observed.**
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8/24/2026, 8:58:21 PM
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Already told you. See, here's the thing. It's just an observation. It's an off the cuff remark of little import that you insisted on calling "historic price research". But, since you've taken such an interest:  The fruit is nectarines. Nectarines are shown as being $1.65 a pound in 1993 which we should not assume is a wildly atypical price, though the show is set in Manhattan which would have higher prices than average. While of course I can't show you the price from the place I shop, a simple Brave search shows that nectarines are as high as $2.49 per pound or as low as $.97 per pound. Which means the price of fruit within this context is essentially the same then as now without even accounting for inflation. Or so it would seem from simple observation. Which calls into question whether or not the fine graphs and statistics we're treated to are real or fiction. I definitely remember the radical price increases of the 70's, the flattening of the 80's and the surreal rewriting of history of the 90's which has continued to this day. Is that real? Is that my own mind coping with disparate and contradictory inputs? Could be. But, every once in a while I catch a bit of confirmation that my memory of the past is real. Perhaps more real than the official records would indicate. Let's add up the score here: I've given you more "documentation" by providing a clip from a 90's sitcom than you have given me while supposedly citing official government sources. Pretty sure that if providing a clip from a sitcom beats your contribution, then you're way, way, Waaayyy behind!
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dickie
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8/24/2026, 9:42:38 PM
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"While of course I can't show you the price from the place I shop, a simple Brave search shows that nectarines are as high as $2.49 per pound or as low as $.97 per pound." $.98 is the low wholesale price for nectarines. walmart has them for $.97 each, or two pounds for $2.49 per pound. And Walmart is a discount retailer. So $2.49 per pound is not the high side, it's the current nominal price per pound. 
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