I was down the local IGA, and bananas were$16 a kg, and rump steak $9.99 a kg.This is on an island in the tropics!Maybe we should give up bananas and eat more steak.I have lady fingers and cavendish in my back yard, but the best and biggest were at Pete and Gails place at Scarborough in Sth east QLD.It just shows what the rain, cyclones and floods have done to prices.
MATE.....what an endorsement.....sing this.... yes sir we have some bananas ... we have some bananas today..... lol.. We have bananas but they are not ripe yet... when they are we will give them away... until then we will eat apples or tinned fruit... bugger Wollworths or Coles they are the modern day robber Barrons
i did read today that something like 24 cents of every dollar spent in australia is spent in Woolworths or Coles... it makes your blood run cold..........
-- Edited by petengail on Tuesday 5th of April 2011 07:15:25 PM
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I refuse on principle to buy fruit that has been artificially pushed to high prices to capitalise on other peoples misfortunes.
Why do Carnavon WA bananas have to be exorbitant price because QLD crops have been decimated. Pure GREED.
I know Carnarvon crops have been pummeled this year too so we are probably paying $16kg for imported Chinese / Vietmanese crap that has been fed on raw sewerage.
There could be a health reason. I have a neighbour in her 90s. No matter what the price of bananas she has to have them, 3 or 4 a day. Last time the price went up after a storm up north, she was buying over 30.00 worth at a time. Haven't spoken to her lately but presume she would be doing the same this time. Her body lacks something that she can't get any other way.
Went shopping for my daughter yesterday she asked me to buy 10 Bananas for her childern they cost $21 thats $2.10 each , cheaper than a iceblock or ice cream and are good healthy food , these price are only because of supply and demand you don;t have to buy them , when smokes and beer go up people still kept buying them better to give up beer and smokes and eat an half of a Banana ,Also winging not healthy for us be happy hit the road we have
Walked over to the main road today to the little guy greengrocer. Actuall went to Bunnings, called in there on way home. Bananas 12.00 a kilo but he had 5 over ripe that he let me have for 2.00 a kilo. $2.05.. I put them in the freezer, ok for mashing on toast for breakfast.
I refuse on principle to buy fruit that has been artificially pushed to high prices to capitalise on other peoples misfortunes.
Why do Carnavon WA bananas have to be exorbitant price because QLD crops have been decimated. Pure GREED.
I know Carnarvon crops have been pummeled this year too so we are probably paying $16kg for imported Chinese / Vietmanese crap that has been fed on raw sewerage.
Who is getting the $'s???
Unfortunately the Carnarvon banana crop also went down the Gascoyne in 2 floods they had over there. Of course we don't see that on TV because the rest of Oz doesn't pay them any attention. My friends in Carnarvon had a foot of water flowing through their bus, the hard annexe also went down the Gascoyne. There are beautiful tomatoes, melons, mangoes and bananas at Carnarvon, in normal years, but this has been anything but a normal year as far as weather goes.
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