Four tomatoes cost me $6.60!
Aug 29th 2008, 4:16 am
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Re: Four tomatoes cost me $6.60!
When I first got here back in 2000 I picked up a bunch of grapes in Woolies. Didn't realise until I got home that they'd cost me $20!!!!!
(admittedly they were out of season).
Aug 29th 2008, 4:38 am
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Re: Four tomatoes cost me $6.60!
Nothing can compares to mushrooms in Tokyo.
100,000 Yen for a handful. That's a lot of money, can't remember how much, but a lot.
They were special mushroms mind. Grown under the darkened folds of a virgin geisha's ceremonial kimono. Possibly.
100,000 Yen for a handful. That's a lot of money, can't remember how much, but a lot.
They were special mushroms mind. Grown under the darkened folds of a virgin geisha's ceremonial kimono. Possibly.
Aug 29th 2008, 4:47 am
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Re: Four tomatoes cost me $6.60!
Rubbed on the thighs of an imported nubian Princess....
Aug 29th 2008, 5:13 am
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Aug 29th 2008, 6:27 am
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Aug 29th 2008, 8:10 am
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Re: Four tomatoes cost me $6.60!
Guess why I hate grocery shopping in Australia?
It has come so far from what food shopping should/used to be. When we are in Mozambique (where my wife is from) food shopping is a delight.....and cheap. $50 would wipe out a fruit/veg stall......and the seafood...to die for....and bloody cheap....check this out, and U can see how life really should be...and guess what? The tomatoes taste like tomatoes....fresh!
We, who live in the developed world, think we are advanced...NO...we have forgotten how life should be...and we have been compromised by being suckered in to being commercialised!
It has come so far from what food shopping should/used to be. When we are in Mozambique (where my wife is from) food shopping is a delight.....and cheap. $50 would wipe out a fruit/veg stall......and the seafood...to die for....and bloody cheap....check this out, and U can see how life really should be...and guess what? The tomatoes taste like tomatoes....fresh!
We, who live in the developed world, think we are advanced...NO...we have forgotten how life should be...and we have been compromised by being suckered in to being commercialised!
Aug 29th 2008, 8:21 am
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Re: Four tomatoes cost me $6.60!
so you haven't been to a local farmers market then?
I have seen markets like that in Australia, Germany, Holland, England, Belgium Malta, Cyprus,Italy and France not everything is supermarkets go look for some farmers markets they are ace
I use the Paddies markets myself and the fish market in Sydney also the small village markets give them a go you will love them
I have seen markets like that in Australia, Germany, Holland, England, Belgium Malta, Cyprus,Italy and France not everything is supermarkets go look for some farmers markets they are ace
I use the Paddies markets myself and the fish market in Sydney also the small village markets give them a go you will love them
Aug 29th 2008, 8:37 am
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Re: Four tomatoes cost me $6.60!
so you haven't been to a local farmers market then?
I have seen markets like that in Australia, Germany, Holland, England, Belgium Malta, Cyprus,Italy and France not everything is supermarkets go look for some farmers markets they are ace
I use the Paddies markets myself and the fish market in Sydney also the small village markets give them a go you will love them
I have seen markets like that in Australia, Germany, Holland, England, Belgium Malta, Cyprus,Italy and France not everything is supermarkets go look for some farmers markets they are ace
I use the Paddies markets myself and the fish market in Sydney also the small village markets give them a go you will love them
I agree with you...if more people were to use, or were able to use fresh produce markets, the big two would be made to sit up and think. In Melbourne we have Vic Markets, Dandenong, and Springvale but, unfortunately, the fish markets are too commercialised to cater for the average punter.
Tell me of your estimate of what percentage of the market in the developed world, where supermarkets predominate, have access to fresh produce markets...urbanised Australia and rural Australia? Rural Australia..bugger all.