Speaking of outrageous prices, what the fuck's with butter?

[JVS]

I seem to recall that in the past butter and margarine were about the same price. I usually went with marge because I'm single and a pound of butter would spoil on me, but margarine stayed good. I was at the store last week and they wanted $2.39 for a lb of butter but only 55 cents for the margarine. This is really odd because I've been able to find 1/2 gallons of milk for $1 lately. Why is making it into butter so expensive.

[swag]

1. Oh those volatile food and energy components of CPI.

Thank goodness the Department of Labor excludes food and energy from the most highly respected "Core CPI," oh driver of monetary policy and markets, Core CPI. I praise thee to the sky, my Core CPI.

[tridim]

2. FYI butter freezes nicely

$2.39/pound is cheap! It's been over $3.00 here for years.

[JVS]

4. I don't like the texture it gets after that

It always seems a bit chalky even after it goes back to reg temp

[tridim]

11. Interesting. Mine thaws good as new

I do wrap it in a freezer bag and suck out the air. Try that.

[JVS]

12. I think I'll just save the nearly $2 and get margarine.

Maybe I'll freeze some butter if it comes back to a comparable price.

[HEyHEY]

3. Ask yourseld what is with apples

Did you know.. that apples should only cost 50 cents a pound after EVERYONE has received their cut?

[JVS]

5. I refuse to eat apples out of solidarity for the exploited Quebecois...

migrant fruit pickers.

[HEyHEY]

6. They don't pick apples

They are long gone back to Quebec by the tim eit comes to apple picking..of course if proper accodmadations were provided, they may stay...
I didn't get to bed ONE fruit picker this year...bummer

[JVS]

7. I boycott nontheless, so that they won't have to stay longer and be...

exposed to the clumsy advances of horny anglophone journalists.

[HEyHEY]

9. Clumsy? That's just cause of the Jamesons man!

[JVS]

10. Oh sorry, that should read "clumsy drunken advances of Irish-Whisky...

swilling horny anglophone journalists"

[HEyHEY]

14. Thank you, all I ask it to be fairly described

[JVS]

15. "Fair and balanced" rather than "Injust and wobbly"

That's the principle I go for.

[hnsez]

8. cut your butter with crisco you'll still have enough to cover yourself

[ahem]

13. Butter has always cost more than margarine.

I bake a lot, and as far back as I can remember butter has cost more. I only use butter now, but when I was growing up my mom bought margarine because it was cheaper.

Around here 2.39/lb would be a good deal on butter.