[xrp]

Why isn't there a marker on how much beer and cigarettes they buy?

[FairOpinion]

"Why isn't there a marker on how much beer and cigarettes they buy? "

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Good point. That's probably why they are "hungry" some of the time - they spend the money on beer and cigarettes and by the end of the month they don't have money for food.

[William Tell]

xrp said: "Why isn't there a marker on how much beer and cigarettes they buy?"

My wife and I were fortunate to spend a week's vacation in Hawaii with an Asian couple we know. They were kind enough to prepare most of the meals.

We purchased a twenty-pound bag of rice for four dollars at a super-market. We had rice with every evening meal and still left behind about 18 pounds for the local food bank.

The people in this article could buy almost ten pounds of rice for the cost of a single gallon of gas. I will leave it to someone with more cooking skills than me to say how many meals can be made from ten pounds of rice.