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In Soviet Russia, you line up for free bread.
In Capitalist West, you don't even bother lining up because the bread is $17.99 and who the fuck has that money to spare?
I always found the "someone from Soviet Russia went to an American supermarket and broke down crying because the shelves were overflowing with food" trope that anticommunists used super tone deaf and hypocritical. First of all, half that food is ending up straight in the trash and dumped in a landfill, either after sitting too long in someone fridge or right in the fucking store, and for the latter they are literally legaly mandated to shred the food and pour bleach on it to prevent people from picking it out of the dumpster. Also, that person from Soviet Russia definitely passed by that homeless person sleeping by the doors, but don't feed him though, that can land you in prison! Also just the general fact that hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world, both in the 50s/60s all the way to now, in fact food insecurity is on the rise in modern times with all our technology. Say what you want about rations under socialism, at least you were guaranteed a ration no matter who you were.
That trope is really annoying, and also weren't supermarkets in the USSR full of food and a wide variety of stuff to? I recall seeing some images from like this image dump showing what the USSR was really like and it showed some grocery stores full of a wide variety of food stuff
It’s also infantilizing and demeaning. “DPRK has no word for love” tier
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Me. I do. It’s not like it’s $10,000 it’s a bloody 20 buck bread loaf mate. Bit pricy yeah but if I go water skiing with my mates on the river we always bring something to share for lunch and leave on my boat.
That's $28 aud for a hand sized round loaf of bread. Kind of a large roll rather than a proper loaf you can share. Each person would probably need to get their own one of these and then slap some sandwich stuff on it. Bit pricey even if you can afford a boat and use it regularly. Most Americans can't.
A boat cost me less than my car. I probably use it more; cause I live on a river in one of those small river shacks so the boat is used as my second car, I’ve used it to go to the grocery store before. Get into it, go to the nearest town, tie it up to the dock and then walk 2 minutes to the grocery store. Pretty easy.
Yeah nah I can get better shit for $7 from my local.
I think the big thing is the gimmick of using Ube plums and sweet potatoes. Even if they were using heirloom wheat flour 17 dollars is too much?
Yes but ube are a type of sweet potato, ume are the Japanese plums
I have become the gourmand
Oh dang you got me there. Thanks
Still, I kind of hate the "exotic, foreign ingredient makes our food cost exorbitant prices"
For 'straya it's not completely out there as pricing, but to me and my income, even though I'm a big suckered for good food, and try to pay a fair price for it, too... 17 bucks is too much.