Posted on 04/15/2008 11:59:53 AM PDT by stockpirate
NEW YORK - Steve Tarpin can bake a graham cracker crust in his sleep, but explaining why the price for his Key lime pies went from $20 to $25 required mastering a thornier topic: global economics.
He recently wrote a letter to his customers and posted it near the cash register listing the factors — dairy prices driven higher by conglomerates buying up milk supplies, heat waves in Europe and California, demand from emerging markets and the weak dollar
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Enjoy your ethanol, Libs.
ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THAT THIS IS ALL HAPPENING RIGHT AFTER THE MINIMUM WAGE WAS INCREASED ABOUT 15%
When will it become more profitable to use corn for food again instead of cashing in on the ethanol subsidy?
Our time has run out. What's needed now is someone close to the personna of Francisco Franco to march on Washington and overthrow these imbeciles.
do you mean with slant drilling via cuba?
Allowing our nation to be rampaged by a gaggle of unwashed, lice-ridden, disease carrying drifters is worse than criminal.
These leftist legislators hate this nation so much that they'll do anything to ruin it.
Si.
It has been going on for the last two years; it’s not just the current farm bill / food for fuel nonsense. The inflation numbers we were seeing were BS.
$25 for a pie?
Is it just a coincidence or could it have something to do with the fact that Republicans took over Congress in 1992(16 years ago)and controlled it until 2006?
Corn into ethanol......WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........
And that goes double for penguins!!
All the Lib,green weenie policies are now being felt by working Americans.
What a lame-@$$ article. Anybody can bake a graham cracker crust in their sleep, because you don’t bake a freaking graham crackercrust. And just because you can make a list of all the bad things happening in the world, it doesn’t justify 25 dollars for a key lime pie.
How about just $20 for a pie? If people can afford $20 for a pie, I’m not ready to jump out of a tall building just yet.
I must be missing something.
My stores are generating more sales and therefore lower prices than I can remember.
Yes, it is on certain items, but who promised me out of season or prepared foods at a low price? Even those are in so many new varieties that there must be some demand at those prices...or convenience.(6.09 for raspberries, yes two weeks ago they were 2/5.00 and two weeks from now?)
Basics seem only slightly higher and it is over a 2 year period, at least.
My last key lime pie cost me about $2.50 to make. Is their pie tin gold plated?
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