(January 2, 2016 at 11:44 pm)Aractus Wrote:(January 2, 2016 at 10:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Hello, snob, I think your organic, poor-hating commune misses you.
Tinned food isn't cheaper. If you're on a tight budget you're better off buying the cheap veggies likes carrot that can be had for $1-2/kg year-round, and of course rice. Pumpkin can be readily had for around $2.50/kg for much of the year as well (as it is right now as it happens):
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If it did come in a tin it'd be very unlikely to be cheaper than (or even the same as) the fresh price.
Wow Australians are so out of touch!
Fresh produce is restricted by area, yet canned goods can come from anywhere in the world. Generally speaking for the continental US, it is not true that fresh is cheaper or often comparably priced. Pumpkins in fresh produce in stores are only sold if they are picture quality and that makes them expensive, but factory farms aren't picky and cut away all the good flesh of basically any pumpkin that isn't rotten and cans only the edible flesh and none of the skin and seeds. Here in South Carolina a pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkin today in January would cost 3 - 4 times more than a canned version. It's not even close.
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