Cherry Ripe, Cherry Ripe...
This is maybe not seemingly much to write about but you may've seen on previous posts that cherries have been in short supply and/or have been very expensive...And I do mean very expensive. I had just started to enjoy them in the last year or so and therefore not being able to get them or having to think about the price and whether to buy, it has been disappointing.
Well, they are still a luxury item and expensive but the local supermarket had some yesterday on offer at half price so I treated myself. I would have liked to buy the large bags of them but I did manage to go to the cost of buying a small carton...I am looking forward to them but you know if you buy a carton of cherries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries just for those 5 items you can have parted with £15($24.7439 US Dollars)
So perhaps anything that does you good can cost a fair bit!
Well, they are still a luxury item and expensive but the local supermarket had some yesterday on offer at half price so I treated myself. I would have liked to buy the large bags of them but I did manage to go to the cost of buying a small carton...I am looking forward to them but you know if you buy a carton of cherries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries just for those 5 items you can have parted with £15($24.7439 US Dollars)
So perhaps anything that does you good can cost a fair bit!
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 4:10 pm
7 Comments:
It's sad, isn't it? Fresh berries can cost upwards of $5/pound, but one can buy an entire McDonald's meal for about $4. The former is healthy, the latter will slowly destroy your heart, arteries, etc.
I hope you can continue to find reasonably priced cherries, Gildy. They really are delicious.
North Star,
I must look tomorrow what weight we get for our money. I'm sure it wasn't as a pound.
But you have confirmed that pricewise that they would appear to be approx the same price as here but when we convert currencies maybe depending on where you live and what you are paid they could actually seem to be more expensive.
Could it come down to transport costs? Most of the fruit this time seemed to be from various parts of the UK this time..Scotland etc...I think.
Cherries were on sale for only $2/pound at the supermarket today. I was compelled to purchase about 3 pounds. They are of much higher quality than the last batch I bought.
Fruit prices vary dramatically here, depending on the season. Transport costs may play a role, too.
You pay VAT on food, don't you? (I can't recall.) Here, there is no sales tax levied on food.
Yes, we do but it can be complicated and I am unsure how much of this is governed by European Law.
It is a kind of sales tax I suppose but it only applies to some foods...if you get the chance try and see the fun that has been taking place in the UK courts regarding Pringles and VAT. It could end up costing Procter & Gamble millions.
We also have the different way we class snacks anyhow...we say crisps in America you would say potato chips, we would say chips go with a meal, in the States you'd probably say French Fries...
I haven't had time to link directly to this site but here is an explanation(eyes glaze over)of which foods are charged VAT and which are excluded can be read here...
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/leaflets/food-and-drink.html
Meantime, I said that I would tell you what I paid for my cherries...remember they say these are half price...
250grams(approx 9oz)for £1.99($3.27732 US Dollars)
Thanks for the link to the VAT explanation, Gildy. I've bookmarked it for future reference. In general, food and drink are taxed more so than here in the US, and at higher rates. That probably doesn't surprise you.
Cherries are expensive for you to purchase!
Yes, we eat French fries here, not chips. But if you said "fish and chips," everyone would know what you were talking about.
It's been said by someone, either on your blog or over at GS, that people should eat only "local" food. I'm unsure how "local" is defined, but that's really not possible where I live. No fruits or vegetables will grow outside for 5 months or so during the year, when temps drop below freezing, at least during the evening hours. And many items will never grow here. Such as cherries and other fruits. They simply must be shipped in from elsewhere.
It's all very well saying grow food locally(and if your home allows access to an area of a garden that can be given over to growing fruit and vegetables...fine but many towns and cities, the design of property makes this difficult or impossible.
And unless we could return to a design of years gone by the only other option is a garden allotment but they are often built over or taken away and there are waiting lists for what is available, often for years. You need to live in a village or rural/country area.
Then, you have the problem in a modern country of trying to find work which means travelling into a town or city and then we are back to the problems of climate change where we are told not to use cars but public transport is not perhaps an alternative.
There is a new service available at last where I can have a weekly delivery of organic vegetables delivered to my door at reasonable prices...they are, if you order a large enough amount, that you can use all that is delivered, that you like what they decide to deliver as each week may be different and they still have to come from approx 20+ miles away.
And I have not mentioned the weather...during most months of the year we can have ground frost so even the best gardens(depending on what flowers you plant)can be nothing to look at. Frost is possible in the summer time.
As you say North Star...how near is local when talking of food?
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