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Oh well bread is still cheap as chips.Butter has gone up more than 50% since last year. What's going on? I like butter.
Correction: Chips are not cheap anymore....
Vendor prices
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Correction: Chips are not cheap anymore....
So, butter is cheap as chips now?Oh well bread is still cheap as chips.
Correction: Chips are not cheap anymore....
What I don't get: butter is made from milk - and milk hasn't gone up... has the process of turning milk into butter become more expensive? Hardly. Any honest butter vendors left out there?
The cost of my local chips have increased from 90p to £1.60 for a small portion and gotten a lot smaller. They also switched from tallowy goodness to vegetable oil. Sound familiar?Oh well bread is still cheap as chips.
Correction: Chips are not cheap anymore....
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Exactly the same in my neck of the woods.The cost of my local chips have increased from 90p to £1.60 for a small portion and gotten a lot smaller. They also switched from tallowy goodness to vegetable oil. Sound familiar?
Its an outrage I tell Ya.
I think what has happened, is since it was finally declared that butter is not as bad for you as first thought, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon, left the "Too Good To Be True" gloop for example and the vendors thought.....So, butter is cheap as chips now?
What I don't get: butter is made from milk - and milk hasn't gone up... has the process of turning milk into butter become more expensive? Hardly. Any honest butter vendors left out there?
I want a bit of that, lets bump the prices up.
I can not think of any other reasons to be honest.
Butter Scammers Gate. BSG
An explanation attempt can be read here:Exactly the same in my neck of the woods.
Its an outrage I tell Ya.
I think what has happened, is since it was finally declared that butter is not as bad for you as first thought, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon, left the "Too Good To Be True" gloop for example and the vendors thought.....
I want a bit of that, lets bump the prices up.
I can not think of any other reasons to be honest.
Butter Scammers Gate. BSG
https://www.ft.com/content/8550f05a-6649-11e7-8526-7b38dcaef614
(Why can I read the article if I go there from Google News, but when I follow the link it asks me to subscribe and pay? Let's try this link: https://goo.gl/eNkPWy - click on first article)
In short - the best explanation is to blame 'The Great British Bake Off' - seems most plausible
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I stand corrected.An explanation attempt can be read here:
https://www.ft.com/content/8550f05a-6649-11e7-8526-7b38dcaef614
(Why can I read the article if I go there from Google News, but when I follow the link it asks me to subscribe and pay?)
In short - the best explanation is to blame 'The Great British Bake Off' - seems most plausible
I think you are smack on there.
That blue eyed T"£$ Paul Hollywood has got a lot to answer for.
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Could someone pm me the vendor you are all about please?