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My fifty pound loaf ...
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Moves ever closer.
Some pundits are saying that bread may become a luxury item.
But ...this will effect the price and availability of beer breakfast cereals pies cakes gravy mix currys sausages meat etc etc. the list is almost endless.
But ...the fifty pound loaf is looming ever larger.
I don't mind being thought of as completely bonkers ...really.
I worry more about the people who only perceive the reality they are sold.
Some pundits are saying that bread may become a luxury item.
But ...this will effect the price and availability of beer breakfast cereals pies cakes gravy mix currys sausages meat etc etc. the list is almost endless.
But ...the fifty pound loaf is looming ever larger.
I don't mind being thought of as completely bonkers ...really.
I worry more about the people who only perceive the reality they are sold.
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Because other pundits are suggesting it may go up 10p
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7929101/Price-of-bread-could-hit-record-after-Russian-wheat-export-ban.html
though personally are I think that supermarkets are likely to absorb the cost as bread is a loss leader
Flour isn't going extinct. There isn't VAT on it. No mills have caught fire recently. It's not like RAM (computer memory). RAM prices fluctuate and goes up when one of their Asian factories blow up. You don't get mills blowing up, so what is actually happening?
Not that I'm complaining too much though because I have a breadmaker, and supermarket bread rolls are still relatively cheap.
Evidence?
http://www.measuringworth.com/index.html
ETA: I think my last loaf cost me 99p. This time next year though, yeah?
Perhaps bread may not be such an issue but I'd worry about the content of cheap sausages.
But if it gets over I don't know 4 or 5€ I will just not buy bread anymore? And bake my own bread if it tickles my fancy? Why should I pay 50€ for fluor, water and spices?
The price will almost certainly continue to rise. Everything else seems to be going up - except fuel, which seems to have come down slightly in the last month or so. Again, that one's not too much of an issue for me. I can just head down to the Republic of Ireland and get my petrol there instead, where it's slightly cheaper.
Whether we'll see a £50 loaf anytime soon is open to question, but if they keep printing money at the rate Zimbabwe is doing, your average loaf will soon cost about £3million...
I like cheap sausages, I think they're mainly bread and gristle but... I like them.
But yeah, most non-electrical goods will go up with inflation. Just bread and alcohol seems to be targeted. Can't comment on tobacco sorry, as I don't smoke.
Ok, fuck, the "good" bread is already 4€ á kg. The still good, but not perfect bread (presliced, and in plasticbag) is about 2€...
That said, Austria has a pretty big bread culture and I could probably live of the best of best loafs alone, they are so fucking tasty, but nothing for a single living student.
I have noticed this in other threads - your memory is superhuman. How on earth do you remember what you paid for batteries 17 years ago?!
It's my synaesthesia - coloured hearing and coloured memory, but only my long term memory. My short term is non-existent. Plus, I only have about 10% eyesight left, so if there is less detail for me to see, then I guess it means my memory has room for information that was otherwise taken by normal eyesight.