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Ironically, the spud is absurdly more expensive than giving candy.
It is like a dollar each, but the smiles on kids faces as they walk home with the beginnings of a stew are priceless
A dollar each? It's $3.50 for a 10lb bag here
What could a potato cost, 10 dollars?
Yeah, same here, and even that's high. I know you can get deals where you can get 2 of those bags for like $5. It's one of the cheapest vegetables you can get. Definitely a great food to buy if you're not doing too well financially. Cheap, nutritious, filling, and tons of recipes.
For comparison I got my Halloween bag of candy at Costco for $20 bucks... candy is ridiculously expensive.
I just pulled up the [Department Store] app I have on my phone and looked at the individual prices, it says $0.82 each
I'm gonna be honest, I could not possibly tell you how much a potato weighs, so I have no idea how many potatoes come in the $3.27 5 lbs bag
A standard russet potato is 148g(according to the nutritional information on a sack o' potatoes) , 5 lbs=2270g. 2270Γ·148=15.3. $3.27Γ·15.3 potatoes is 21 cents per tater.
I think I estimated about three for a dollar so that more or less tracks. Who's paying a dollar each?
That's if you buy individually wrapped, gotta buy them by the bag.
This, priced at $0.375 per potato, puts a potato at 213 grams
You can spend $1.45 a potato where I'm at
Yeah well we can't all live in San Francisco
What the absolute fuck
I'm just sayin what I'm seein, $0.82 is like a dollar ish
What the fuck is going on over there? Are you ok? Do you need us to send you potatoes? You need us to send potatoes right?
Yes pls. A large fry at Penn Station costs $6.50.
Dunno what a large fry is, not sure where penn station is or what this cryptic $-symbol means, BUT I WILL COME AND SAVE YOU
Pls sir, I want some more.
Wait until you see the grocery stores that put individual bananas in a plastic wrapper.
Lmao what is wrong with the US
$0.37 per potato, at 213 grams, isn't too bad
Unchecked capitalism, to put it simply.
Is that a single, wrapped, potato?
oh god
A bit deceptive cos if you look just a bit below
βItβs one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?β
What potatoes you buying are they gold encrusted?
Where I am you can basically get them by the crate load. I have no idea what one individual potato cost because I've never bought one individual potato. But my estimate would be about three for a dollar. Big ones like in the photo not little tiny ones.
Also don't get no ones in plastic wrapping they're more expensive and they're not any better. Just wash your vegetables. The mud and flavour admittedly it's mud flavour.
Why are wrapped in plastic? Don't they usually come in some sort of netting and or loose and you can get as many as you like in a cloth bag?
Usually the ones individually wrapped in plastic are being sold as microwaveable.
I guess we'll just ignore the fact that you don't need to wrap a potato in plastic to microwave it successfully.
In fact, you really shouldn't wrap your potato in plastic to microwave it. That's an awful idea.
That said, all potatoes are microwaveable anyway.
I think the idea is to show that it's already been cleaned and is ready to be microwaved without having to clean it.
It's still stupid and I would never buy one when I can get 5 lb bag for not that much more, but I don't think the idea is to microwave it in the plastic.
You're roughly right, its 37.5 cents
Bro, you hand me finger foods I'm gunna eat it on the way back, just ask for a little salt at each house you stop by.
No way that can be true, how much for a kg of potatoes where you live
In the Philippines they're around 4$/kg where I live, and they're not even really nice potatoes.
I need to check my potato privilege. They're less than 1β¬/kg here
Vegetables are oddly over priced there, in general.
Even most fruit. Mangos though... Mangos, rice, beer and rum. Everything you need!
It's really stupid. At one point fucking onions were at 10$/kg.
The amount of food shipped in from China is too high.
In Lithuania, they are 0.35β¬/kg right now. Candy is at least 20 times that amount.