[ SECRET POST #2078 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2078 ⌋

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Comments

[la_petite_singe]

HALF your wages?! Either you're buying a metric fuckton of 'em or you make very little. I mean, shit, they're only 50 cents even here in overpriced NYC. Either way I'm quite baffled.

[(Anonymous)]

OP said they're from Australia. I think their prices for food is already twice the North American norm, and I can understand how bananas can cost more than other fruits.

[(Anonymous)]

Not everyone's from the US, JFC.

[(Anonymous)]

This will sound incredibly stupid, but... if food is so cheap over in the US (Australian here, too) then what other factors make fresh/healthy food so difficult to buy? I read someone on FML (great citation, I know) mention that they were doing online surveys for free McDonald's coupons, so that they could buy burgers to freeze and could eat for the next few months.

[(Anonymous)]

Food is not that cheap all over the US. Bananas may be $0.50 over in NYC, but they're like a buck around here [Twin Ports - Duluth, MN/Superior, WI](if you buy them by themselves) or anywhere in the range from $0.49/lb to $1.99/lb depending on what store you buy them in, if they're organic or not, what season it is, and if they're so brown you mistake them for chocolate bananas or not. :|

That said, we also have areas in the US known as "food deserts," where fresh food simply is not available nearby for a reasonable price. When it can be found, it's in restaurants or the occasional fruit stand at a convenience store, where a person can sometimes pay upward of 200% the average cost in a typical food market or grocery store. For those who are on low income, often without a car or the money to put much gasoline in their car, the only nearby sources of food are McDonald's (and similar) or gas stations. On the other side of the coin, there are also rural poor who have no access to grocery stores and no means for growing a large enough diversity of their own food. Our rural areas, by and large, do not have good access to public transportation or services for the elderly, disabled, or young children.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I see. :| That's really rough.

[(Anonymous)]

They're more than fifty cents in Minnesota.