Posted on 03/01/2008 11:37:53 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
I don’t see any burnout where I reside. The Philly suburbs and New Jersey have some of the best pizza in the world, bar none. An average to sub average pizza in this area is equivalent to what is considered the best in other areas of the country. So in at least in one respect we truly are spoiled. As for the price, blame ethanol.
I have an idea:
Lets stop converting our wheat fields to growing corn for ethanol.
While we are at it, we can stop converting pasture land to growing corn for ethanol.
Ditto for rice, hops and barley.
That takes care of the wheat, cheese, meatballs and beer.
If an idiot like me can figure that out, why can’t our elected geniuses?
Maybe they want to do something “green” or “reduce our dependence...” or get donations from ADM (guess which one they actually accomplish).
Our Elected ********* never have figured out the law of unintended consequences.
If a farmer can make 2x dollars for growing corn for ethanol when he can only make 1x dollars growing corn to eat guess what the farmer is going to choose to do.
Our idiot congress critters will do anything for votes and right now they are all about saving the enviroment because Al and company grab the headlines about alternative fuels and other happy crappy.
A free Market is just like Water, it will seek its own level, if man intervenes it still does not change the basic laws of physics or markets. They still seek their own levels.
What will happen is food will get more expensive and some enterprising groups will seek to take advantage of an opening in the market. My fear is we will be importing more and more from SOuth of the border.
> According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an 18-kilogram block of cheddar cheese cost $1.76 on Feb. 16, compared with $1.30 a year ago.
No way. That cannot be right.
18kg * 2.2046lbs/kg = 39.68 lbs — say 40lbs of cheese for $1.76? No way — I do not believe these numbers, they must be a misprint.
Last December Fonterra paid something like NZ$6.90 / kg to farmers for milk solids — and that’s the raw materials before processing them into finished product!
Either our NZ$ has de-valued into next-to-nothing (it hasn’t) or some reporter missed out a couple zeroes somewhere, or you Yanks are getting an amazing deal at $1.76 for 40 lbs of finished product...
Pizza makers could do what potato chip makers and others do - shrink the size and charge the same price. Could the day of the 9 inch “large” pizza be dawning?
Pizzas in Korea are already smaller than their American counterparts, from what I remember. They don’t Super Size much in Korea.
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