My corner store (a great bunch of guys) sells milk for $5.49 for 4 liters …. at Quinpool supermarket, on the other hand, sells at $6.99, a 20+% gouge. Plus their “fresh” vegetables look constantly liquidated. Is it just the fact that you have a largely student (=low income, often pedestrian) population to exploit that allows you to do this, supermarket?
—MilkMan
This article appears in Dec 31, 2009 – Jan 6, 2010.
Their current slogan: “just lower prices”. Yeah right! Just lower your effin’ prices! Oh, but that would cut into their precious profits which they gouge from people without a care about those who can barely afford it!
when i moved here from On. i couldn’t believe your dairy prices;the best price i saw for 2% milk was $5.49 at shoppers w/ a optimum card;in On.it‘s pretty much $3.99 everywhere.everything else is pretty much in line though and your bread prices are actually a little lower
Banana prices in Ontario and Nova Scotia differ widely, at least at the big stores. Small fruit and vegetable stores in Nova Scotia sell them for .30 less (at Ontario prices) and still make a profit. Can you say g-o-u-g-i-n-g?
What I found funny when I was in Australia, where they can actually grow most of their produce, was that their supermarket fruit and veggies prices were generally either the same or more expensive than here in Canada, even on the stuff grown in Florida or California! How weird is that? I think it has to do with free trade and economies of scale and all that, since the market here in North America contains over 300 million people, while in Australia it’s only about 20 million people.
Want to know what else was fucked up down there? They only spelled “Veggie” with one G, as “Vegie!” How fucked up is that?
have you ever tried vegemite; how can anyone find any redeeming qualities in that shit ; i just don’t get that stuff
Vegemite is awesome! It’s really an acquired taste more than anything, like beer (who didn’t hate beer when they first tried it but now love it?), but once it’s acquired you’ve got it forever. About to have some now… yum. Good on me!
i guess it’s like dutch licorice (not sweetened but salted) good point about beer
Never tried Vegemite but I absolutely adore it’s British cousin Marmite which thankfully is available in Canada! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm…some good!
Finnish licorice is salted too. I have some in my cupboard that my Finnish friend gave me among other yummy treats. They have a licorice liqueur too…mmmmmmmmmm. They also have a bakeapple liqueur which is a taste of heaven to this Newfoundlander!
Is Dutch Licorice cooked in a Dutch oven? Hehe.
I’m sure you can find Vegemite in some imported food store if you really wanted it. Or we could meet up, I’ll just smile and give you a Vegemite sandwich.
Great, another song! Ahhh! Love the cross-Bitch references.
you know what’s fuckn good from the UK: branson pickle
When I was a kid, I ate pickled onions from the UK. Nothing like the ones you find now. I did see the English sour ones at Pete’s, but they were so expensive.
As well, I remember chewing on some Dutch treat that was a stick/bark. I have not seen it since my childhood.
Marmite, vegimite… WHAT were they thinking? WHO would scrape the barrel and put it on toast then call it food. YUCK!!
Newfoundlanders would. Only they add water, swish it a few times and then serve it on ice.
Marmite aka yeast extract, is an ingredient found in many food products. People are eating barrel scrapings without even knowing it…hehehehe!
Wouldn’t life be boring if we were all born with the same palate! Thankfully there is diversity!
HKM – a pork pie from Pete’s with Branson Pickle and pickled onions all washed down with a Boddingtons or 2.
either get it cheaper down the road,or you can always buy a cow.no laws in city yet for having them,think not anyway.
Mint Sauce with the leaves in it (and mint jelly); Chicory coffee; Ovaltine; Breakfast Kippers; and Mixed Grill–all a part of my childhood compliments of my English step-father = )
My mom contributed (besides the usual Canadian fare):
pancakes–burnt on the outside, uncooked in the middle;
creamed can peas/creamed can salmon on toast;
egg gravy;
a really great beef stew made with marrow bones (except for the burnt pieces throughout it).
She wasn’t the greatest cook, and she didn’t have a lot of patience, so she would cook most everything on high = ).
what is that english syrupy spread it’s got a picture of a lion with bees buzzing around (i think) my brother went coo coo for co co puffs for that stuff
Martym – it’s called Tate and Lyles Golden Syrup – you can get it at SS and Sobey’s and Pete’s, it’s in the imported food section at SS and Sobeys, it comes in a clear glass jar. As a treat, you should make a bowl of porridge and instead of using sugar, substitute it with golden syrup. I gained 3 pounds describing this stuff.
righty right than; i’m thinking it’s not low cal;toodles and cheery bye gov
Corner stores often sell milk ‘at cost’ because they know some dupe will pay 400% markup on any of the other products they have to sell to them. They just have to get them into the store…
yea it’s a loss leader basically the front page of grocery flyers are the same
or any of the crap in the Best Buy flyer…
Yet another reason for me to go work in the Czech Republic: 1L of milk is 81 cents CDN there.
Enjoy your ‘malk’…Speaking of tasting weird, I have yet to find milk that tastes like the milk I’d get at home. It’s not bad, just slightly different and you get used to it after a while. However, be aware that the milk in the Czech Republic comes in various looking containers from refrigerated bottles to unrefrigerated boxes. Don’t be put off by the unrefrigerated, boxed milk – it’s perfectly potable and sometimes the only thing a store carries. Be careful when buying milk! You can get confused and choose a product that is not milk at all, but a thick, sour substance that I have yet to figure out what it’s used for. Just to be safe, always look for MLEKO Polotucne (“Milk with half the fat” – they don’t have skim milk here).”