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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, 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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