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More like ten cents a package! I keep a couple of ten-packs around just in case of nuclear attack. I thought everyone did!

the elephant wrote:

TubaTinker wrote:More like ten cents a package! I keep a couple of ten-packs around just in case of nuclear attack. I thought everyone did!

NO! That was my point, Dan. It is now a buck a pop out this way. WTH???

Damn... I thought you were kidding! I just checked Ebay and they are asking $25 ($10 for the noodles and $15 postage) for a package of 24. I'll have to make sure my pantry is full! Might have to switch for rice or oatmeal for my nuclear attack provisions!

I remember when a gallon of gas broke 1.00 -- -- And when tomatos broke 1.00 lb.-- -- when smokes were 1.00 a pack and when you could get into the drive-in for 1.00-- I remember when I could buy valve oil for less than a 1.00 and getting "change back from my dollar" was the slogan at the fancy arches-- But I never thought I'd live long enough to see this MILESTONE !!

And you could get a whole PALLET load of quick noodles for about what: 1.00 maybe 2.00

clunkertruck wrote:I remember when a gallon of gas broke 1.00 -- -- And when tomatos broke 1.00 lb.-- -- when smokes were 1.00 a pack ....

I'm 'sort of' old and I remember when my grandma would send me to the store to buy her cigarettes. If she only had twenty cents to spend... the brand was Marvels. If she had twenty-one cents available... the brand choice was Pall Mall.

the elephant wrote:WTH???

Micah 6:12
For her rich men are full of violence,
Her inhabitants have spoken lies,
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 “ Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you,
By making you desolate because of your sins.
14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied;
Hunger shall be in your midst.

You can read more information and a prediction as to what is happening from 2005 here...
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/t ... 1120201500

bloke wrote:I'm not young, but I'm not so old that I'm in a nursing home...

...I distinctly remember (maybe when I was in 5th or 6th grade...??) $.199 gasoline (leaded / 92 octane).

Me too. And, you got a free plate or drinking glass with that gas.

Wish I could remember what they used to go for around here - because, to me, it didn't seem like all that cheap a way to eat. Given the reputation, I was a little disappointed, and that was years ago.

Cooking is a basic skill that most people can benefit from, including economically. When you see what goes into your food, it's natural that your standards will go up and ingredients can become more expensive, but there are also a lot of relatively cheap foods that become available - flour, dried beans etc.

Cost this out (for two): Capellini con Sardine

• 10 oz capellini (angel hair pasta - spaghetti will do in a pinch.)
• small can sardines in olive oil.
• a few capers (little pods from a nasturtium relative if I remember right, in a jar - you'll have lots left, so this doesn't count in in the cost.)
• couple cloves garlic
• 2 tbsp olive oil (I don't know how much really, but olive oil is good for you so don't hold back!)

Boil the pasta until al dente (seriously, don't overcook for this.)
When it's close to ready, heat up a cast iron skillet or something, mince garlic and throw in the olive oil and garlic and everything else. The garlic just needs to cook a little, not brown. Add pasta to hot pan, mix up.

You can add parmesan cheese, parsley, hot peppers, all kinds of stuff to this (and probably should get some green stuff in there if it's all you're having.) Pour a glass of red wine.

Speaking of economical pasta dishes, I've got to learn to make pasta fazool.

the elephant wrote: Trouble is not coming. It is here. Good luck, folks.

So not only do you get tornadoes, but there isn't any food? I'm going to steer clear of that place!

Seriously, we know wheat in particular is going up. Mostly due to bad weather, and that's not likely to get better, so wheat will get worse. But if there's plenty of food in our supermarket, but not in yours, what does that mean - is your part of the country a sort of grocery barometer for some reason? Did you check the grits shelf?

I don't know what it is about people. We live with fairly obvious looming problems like depletion of oil reserves, depletion of groundwater, depletion of ocean fish stocks, global warming, but rather than take any responsibility for them we at most become experts at denial. But let everyone hear about an empty shelf at the supermarket, and sure enough, I imagine panicked shoppers will be there soon to strip the stores like locusts.

bloke wrote:Glenn Beck may be "crazy", "full of hate", a "racist", and all-that-jazz, but he's been telling our asses over-and-over to stock up on dried food. If you don't have cable TV, he's been saying it on AM radio as well.

Glenn WHO??? -- Never heard of him--

Increase not hit here, yet.

the elephant wrote:Damn. NOBODY got my point -- AT ALL...... Is it not pretty scary that the price of food is changing so rapidly? It has been predicted for a while now. But it is actually happening -- today -- everywhere...... Trouble is not coming. It is here. Good luck, folks.

Relax a little, Wade. For years, Ramen Noodles were only consumed by starving college kids mainly because they were cheap. Notice that those nasty little noodles now come in FLAVORS and seem to be gaining popularity. It just appears that the free enterprise system is hard at work here.... charging what the market will bear. The price could go back down once warehouses are stuffed full with noodles that won't sell at the asking price.

Want prices to stabilize? Just don't buy stuff. The same logic might apply to gasoline.

the elephant wrote:Damn. NOBODY got my point -- AT ALL.

Is it not pretty scary that the price of food is changing so rapidly? It has been predicted for a while now. But it is actually happening -- today -- everywhere.

Jeremiah 30:5
‘We have heard a voice of trembling,
Of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask now, and see,
Whether a man is ever in labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?
7 Alas! For that day is great,
So that none is like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,
But he shall be saved out of it.

the elephant wrote:Damn. NOBODY got my point -- AT ALL.

Notice that even something as simple, cheap and ubiquitous as RAMEN has quadrupled in price in the past two weeks.

Deuteronomy 28:47
“Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you."

Carroll wrote:

Ramen 2011-02-23.jpg

Increase not hit here, yet.

Dang, you beat me to it. I took a picture at the Walmart near my house. They were $0.22 each.

the elephant wrote:Damn. NOBODY got my point -- AT ALL.

Trouble is not coming. It is here. Good luck, folks.

Ezekiel 7:7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come,
A day of trouble is near,
And not of rejoicing in the mountains.

Damn!

TubaTinker wrote: For years, Ramen Noodles were only consumed by starving college kids mainly because they were cheap. Notice that those nasty little noodles now come in FLAVORS and seem to be gaining popularity. It just appears that the free enterprise system is hard at work here.... charging what the market will bear. The price could go back down once warehouses are stuffed full with noodles that won't sell at the asking price.

Want prices to stabilize? Just don't buy stuff. The same logic might apply to gasoline.

Yep.

Dylan King wrote: A day of trouble is near

I believe many days of trouble are caused by people trying to inflict their religious views on everyone else (like through a public forum). Just my thoughts.

Dylan King wrote:

the elephant wrote:Damn. NOBODY got my point -- AT ALL.

Trouble is not coming. It is here. Good luck, folks.

Ezekiel 7:7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come,
A day of trouble is near,
And not of rejoicing in the mountains.

This is the day which The LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24