Totally shocked at grocery prices!
Oct 25th 2010, 10:33 pm
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
Oct 25th 2010, 10:48 pm
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
Oct 25th 2010, 11:11 pm
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at last someone else who hates them 
Oct 25th 2010, 11:49 pm
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Oct 26th 2010, 8:01 am
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
When we first arrived in Perth 11 years ago I bought all the fruit and veg from Coles. The quality was so bad it had almost rotted before I got it home (!), so I soon learned to go to the local fruit market which was much better if a bit more expensive.
The problem came when my oh went to buy some fruit one Saturday and I told him to go to the market instead of the supermarket. He came home looking a bit pale.... He'd fancied some cherries, so picked up a bag full, taken it to the checkout and handed over $46 for them!!! He was too embarrassed to put them back! He never really notices the price of things, but he was much more careful after that.
They were nice cherries though
The problem came when my oh went to buy some fruit one Saturday and I told him to go to the market instead of the supermarket. He came home looking a bit pale.... He'd fancied some cherries, so picked up a bag full, taken it to the checkout and handed over $46 for them!!! He was too embarrassed to put them back! He never really notices the price of things, but he was much more careful after that.
They were nice cherries though
Oct 26th 2010, 9:11 am
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
When we first arrived in Perth 11 years ago I bought all the fruit and veg from Coles. The quality was so bad it had almost rotted before I got it home (!), so I soon learned to go to the local fruit market which was much better if a bit more expensive.
The problem came when my oh went to buy some fruit one Saturday and I told him to go to the market instead of the supermarket. He came home looking a bit pale.... He'd fancied some cherries, so picked up a bag full, taken it to the checkout and handed over $46 for them!!! He was too embarrassed to put them back! He never really notices the price of things, but he was much more careful after that.
They were nice cherries though
The problem came when my oh went to buy some fruit one Saturday and I told him to go to the market instead of the supermarket. He came home looking a bit pale.... He'd fancied some cherries, so picked up a bag full, taken it to the checkout and handed over $46 for them!!! He was too embarrassed to put them back! He never really notices the price of things, but he was much more careful after that.
They were nice cherries though
Oct 26th 2010, 10:52 am
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
Oct 26th 2010, 11:55 am
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
Avocado - thats another one, looks like the products of a chest infection.
Oct 26th 2010, 12:23 pm
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
I can drink mango juice but I cannot eat fresh mango, it reminds me of sliced goldfish, not that I have ever eaten them but that is how I would imagine sliced goldfish to taste like.
Avocado - thats another one, looks like the products of a chest infection.
Avocado - thats another one, looks like the products of a chest infection.
Oct 26th 2010, 12:30 pm
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
I can drink mango juice but I cannot eat fresh mango, it reminds me of sliced goldfish, not that I have ever eaten them but that is how I would imagine sliced goldfish to taste like.
Avocado - thats another one, looks like the products of a chest infection.
Avocado - thats another one, looks like the products of a chest infection.
I love the taste of bananas but hate eating them - the texture makes me gag.
Other things I can't stomach:
Asparagus
Brussel sprouts - what kind of sadist invented these?
Coffee
Oct 26th 2010, 12:36 pm
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Re: Totally shocked at grocery prices!
Mango
Paw Paw
Avocado
All slimy unpleasant things... Unfortunately the inlaws grow Paw Paw in their garden and we have a mango tree (complete with disease-ridden corrosive acid-shitting bats).
In-laws have a habit of picking the mangos before they ripen, eating them green & hard with a bit of salt... <weirdos>
Paw Paw
Avocado
All slimy unpleasant things... Unfortunately the inlaws grow Paw Paw in their garden and we have a mango tree (complete with disease-ridden corrosive acid-shitting bats).
In-laws have a habit of picking the mangos before they ripen, eating them green & hard with a bit of salt... <weirdos>
