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Ice Cream Rant (the effect of inflation, and economy woes)
TOK:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on June 26, 2008, 05:16:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: mountain on June 26, 2008, 05:05:19 pm ---It's just another example of how the high price of oil trickles down to everything we buy.
Pay close attention to products on the shelf at your favorite grocery store. You will notice almost everything is either going up in price or the package is smaller at the same price.
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Next time you're at the store, have a glance at all Lay's potato chip products, and boxes of crackers. It's insane.
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Anything corn based is bad, and it's going to get way worse. With all the farmers growing corn for Ethanol instead of consumption, the extra expense of hauling it to the coasts with 5 buck a gallon diesel, and now the floods in the midwest killing crops, its gonna be real bad this summer.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: TOK on June 26, 2008, 10:03:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on June 26, 2008, 05:16:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: mountain on June 26, 2008, 05:05:19 pm ---It's just another example of how the high price of oil trickles down to everything we buy.
Pay close attention to products on the shelf at your favorite grocery store. You will notice almost everything is either going up in price or the package is smaller at the same price.
--- End quote ---
Next time you're at the store, have a glance at all Lay's potato chip products, and boxes of crackers. It's insane.
--- End quote ---
Anything corn based is bad, and it's going to get way worse. With all the farmers growing corn for Ethanol instead of consumption, the extra expense of hauling it to the coasts with 5 buck a gallon diesel, and now the floods in the midwest killing crops, its gonna be real bad this summer.
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Did you know it takes 1.25 gallons of gasoline to make ONE gallon of ethanol? Kinda working backwards there, huh?
Singapura:
"Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 508 points to 1,739 (22.6%). Black Monday, as it came to be known, was the largest one-day percentage decline in the history of the U.S. stock market. In the aftermath of the crash, Ben and Jerry sent their “scoop vehicle” to Wall Street to serve free scoops of “That’s Life” and “Economic Crunch” ice cream. Alas, Economic Crunch had a short “flavor life”, and was retired to Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard."
shardian:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on June 26, 2008, 04:53:00 pm ---Blue Bunny rules, though....BUNNY TRACKS! Love it.
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My wife LOVES that flavor. I call it rabbit poop, mainly because that is what it looks like is mixed in. :laugh2:
shardian:
--- Quote from: Peale on June 26, 2008, 04:57:19 pm ---Hardness of ice cream, believe it or not, is a good thing. It means it's been kept at a *very* low temperature.
As for shardian's ice cream, by the sound of it the ice cream got warm and melted a bit, then refroze. I'd call Edy's and complain, get a free coupon, and try it again from another store.
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That was the first thing we assumed, and it was obviously not the case. You can tell from texture when ice cream is 'refrozen'. This was definitely the way it was put in the carton initially. We've also gotten it from Walmart and Krogers, and it was the same deal.
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