Things that are just bafflingly expensive

xp yeah, soup IS really expensive at like delis and grocery stores and shit--what is up with that??

I suppose it's reckoned if you're buying soup it's because you need something quick and convenient that doesn't take any cooking and will be willing to pay for it?

Right, but it seems more expensive than other prepared foods of similar substance.

How much is a can of Heinz or something these days, like 70p maybe? I think that's basically reasonable for something that will form the majority of a meal, you've gotta expect being too lazy to cook properly to come w/ a price imo

bread. seriously. wtf I pay over $5 for a loaf of bread now.

cashews wtf

Cashews are mental expensive, aye.

WHY ARE CASHEW NUTS SO EXPENSIVE?

Because so much of the work of processing the nuts has to be done by hand. The process goes like this:(6)

* The fruit falls off the tree.
* People pick up the fruit and twist off the nut.
* People put the nut in water for soaking.
* People lay out the nuts to be sun dried.
* People crack open every single nut individually. They use a machine that is powered by their hands and feet.
* People pick out the nut from the shell by hand.
* People remove the red skin from the nut with a knife.
* People grade the nuts into one of 22 grades.

fuck them for being so tasty imo

My cousin brought some cashews back from Brazil, and they were like 2x the size of cashews sold in U.S. stores. I am pretty sure if you eat those, you get a 1-up.

i had no idea that cashews were such a labor-intensive thing. really.

Something to do with the toxicity of the removed parts. If all that work wasn't done, cashews would kill you.

Bastard nuts.

final proof of Gods non-existance.

Macadamias also expensive to produce. Also they are in danger of going extinct in teh wild :(

lovely poison nuts ... so tasty :D

i recently paid a lot of money. for concert tickets. i still feel kind of gross.

rly hoped that was gonna be 'silicon enema bulbs'

The absurdly expensive Magner's cider has been surpassed in UK pubs by Crabbe's Ginger Beer, which must cost about 10 pence a pint to make (carbonated water + alcohol + ginger flavouring?) and sells for about £4.

Pubs that sell nuts not in packets. I will happily be paid peanuts if they are from you.

Because so much of the work of processing the peanuts has to be done by hand. The process goes like this:(6)

* The packet is plucked off the cardboard dispenser with a lady in a swimsuit on it.
* Bartender picks up the pack and tears open the packet.
* People put the nuts into a vending machine with a turny dial, where you put 50p in.
* People lay out in the sun, waiting for the need to get the peanuts.
* People vote on whos turn it is to go to the bar, make ribald jokes about wallets and moths and so on. They use a machine called an iphone to run an app. That is powered by their hands and feet. Except not the feet.
* Person gets the beers in, then returns with a 50p. Turns dial, gets nuts.
* People remove the less sweaty nuts from the hand of the person with a knife.
* People grade the nuts into one of 22 grades.
* I sigh, and then....

crabbe's is v nice tho

My season ticket this morning. Half an hour on the train to London - £305 a month.

- anything to do with cars ffs

25 mins on the train to London = £344 from where I'm living.

*sigh*

I did not like Crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer the one time I tried it (costs so much I'm not buying another... well, not until I'm a bit tipsy) and its current success makes me sad, as I have been known to drink yr normal ginger beer with or without vodka in pubs and was beginning to see more pubs offering it, but now everywhere just stocks that instead

bbq tipple of choice tbh

Jesus, those train prices :(

- anything to do with cars ffs

Ha, yes, was just about to say car tyres, having spent the morning googling the wild variation in prices between various makes and retailers following recent flat tyre.

My season ticket this morning. Half an hour on the train to London - £305 a month.

― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:07 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

25 mins on the train to London = £344 from where I'm living.

― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:10 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How in pink fuck do they justify that??

Streets paved with gold at the other end.

am currently nearin the end of a month without a car waiting til i could find/afford parts.

Do you get to take home some paving? Because bugger it I'm in.

xp

how long is a 'season' in rail terms

Anything over a week, I think.

Actually, for a week's ticket you still need a photocard.

Also:

Streets paved with gold at the other end.

― ailsa, Friday, 7 January 2011 10:39 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, kinda.

but how long does that season ticket last?

Um, a week?

Or, a month / 3 months

Or, a year.

You sort of get economies of scale between a week to a month, or a month to a year.

Anything else is pretty much 3 months = 3 times the cost of one month, 6 months similar.

I could have dashed out and got a years ticket before the price increase, but I don't have that kind of spare change.

confused, just wonderin what you're getting for 355 quid

mine's a monthly ticket. It's nearing the price I pay for my rent. The service is appalling in nearly every way BTW.

The cost of that train pass is ridiculous. You can get an all-you-can ride pass from the most outlying suburban station to downtown Chicago for $217.35/month. Of course, our streets are paved with filthy snow and the stale crusts of discarded deep dish pizza, so.

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I'm actually thinking of moving job to some shitty place nearby instead of the nice place I work in London because of this.

NYC unlimited use 30-day card just went up to $104 and we are collectively outraged but it sounds like NYC transit is the best deal out of all this deals...not counting distance traveled, extent of system, etc, cos I don't know how spread out other cities' systems are.

shag rugs

Not true!! I found a website for really reasonably priced ones, altho I can't speak to the quality.... hold on....

http://www.flokatirug.net/

The product photos used throughout the site are pretty obviously from 1979 and I love them.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/orange_groovy.jpg

NYC unlimited use 30-day card just went up to $104 and we are collectively outraged but it sounds like NYC transit is the best deal out of all this deals...not counting distance traveled, extent of system, etc, cos I don't know how spread out other cities' systems are.

In Chicago, a 30-day unlimited pass for the city's transit system is $86 (and that's after a recent fair increase). The price I mentioned above is for regional commuter rail. Outrage = justified.

I was so disappointed with Crabbie's Ginger Beer. I love ginger beer and like to put whisky or vodka in it so alcoholic ginger beer sounds amazing. But it tastes like crap.