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[–] 122 points 3 weeks ago (51 children)

Most junk food in the US has gone off the rails in terms of price. Like seriously, don't spend money on food that has zero nutritional value and is actively harmful to your health. You'll feel so much better and your bank account will be so much bigger.

I guess I have corporate America to thank for no longer buying chips, candy, or baked goods that I might've otherwise splurged on as a treat. Can't justify it with prices the way they are.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

    I was with you, up until baked goods. What's wrong with baked goods? A nice loaf of bread freshly baked from a bakery? Or maybe a baked potato with cheese and bacon? Or maybe a big bag of pot.........wait, sorry. Wrong kind of baked.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (11 children)

    😋
    I think baked goods as a treat would be cakes or cookies.
    Also from what I hear in USA bread is generally of very poor quality, but probably better from a baker.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Mass produced, store bought bread is trash, but you can also find some of the nest quality bread you'll ever taste if you go to specialty bakers insteadof supermarkets. I live in Wyoming and I can buy breads made with heirloom grains that are actually highly nutritious. The same applies to cookies, etc. Remember, the USA is a major producer of grains. We grow grain of exceptional quality. We just don't sell it to our own people at a discount. We export the good stuff for profit and eat the low quality high yield stuff.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Good bread is available here but people are cheap and lazy so they don’t go looking for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Funny, some of the best bread here is also some of the cheapest.
    As a Dane I eat a lot of rye-bread, and Schwarzbrot is the best IMO.
    It is also cheap, because it is very simple to make. And being simple to make, makes it high quality because there aren't a lot of additives.
    But AFAIK the cheap bread in USA is simply illegal in EU, because it uses additives that aren't allowed here.

    Anyways, yes of course you can get quality, but bread should not be expensive just because it is of proper quality, the ingredients used to make good bread are dirt cheap.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

    I'm with you about forgoing chips/candy these days. I can't get behind paying 3 bucks for a small snickers bar.

    I will say it has me baking more these days if I want something sweet or want bread. Thank God tortillas are still cheap, I have no idea how to make them... yet.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Corn tortillas are easy and taste great fresh. Buy Masa Harina and use the recipe on the bag. (2 cups masa harina, ½ tsp salt, 1½-2 cups hot water.)

    If you aren't sure enough to buy a 5-pound bag, Bob's Red Mill sells a 624-gram bag with complete instructions on the back. Remember to plan ahead to let the dough rest an hour to absorb the water, and have waxed paper or a cut ziploc bag to flatten it between.

    Don't try to use corn meal or polenta. The nixtamalization of the corn before grinding is important.

    Flour tortillas aren't hard either, plenty recipes online.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Red Mill, great company imo, when I was keto I loved their gluten free options to faux "breading". I had a pretty decent tempura/tonkatsu recipe.

    Thank you for the advice on how to prep. I know me I would have rushed it or bought the wrong corn!

    I came here to bitch about overpriced candy and now have multiple options to make tortilla's! Gotta love Lemmy eh?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    Costco sells uncooked tortillas from TortillaLand, and they’re fucking amazing. Cook like 60 seconds in a hot skillet on each side and you get a fresh, hot tortilla. No oil or anything needed. It’s wonderful. If you can find them, I’d recommend checking them out.

    Only downside is because they’re uncooked, they have a limited fridge life, unlike the pre-cooked ones, but they taste soooo much better.

    https://www.tortillaland.com/where-to-buy/

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Making tortillas from scratch is also not that hard, and that way you never have to worry about pre-cooking shelf life, as long as you generally have flour, oil, and baking powder kicking around.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    We freeze a bunch and they have been fine.

    Also some grocery stores sell uncooked tortillas. And some Walmart's

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Legit. I sound like an old man but I remember when junk food cost at least 3 bucks or something. In my area its 6.79. 6 fucking 79? Fuck offffff. This shits predatory and crazy

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    [–] 66 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Wow they really do make it hard to find the "And I raped kids" version

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

    At least it's snap eligible

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  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    Ya...and you can only get snap if you work 80 hrs a week, have written consent from your boss, your past 4 bosses, the blood of a tainted saint, the pubes of a dead god, the hymen of a virgin, And 3 hearts from a slain dragon.

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    [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago

    But if you break it in half, you'll have 2 bars, and that's like 50% off! Break it again, 50+50 that's 100% off! Why stop there?! Trump did say he was gonna cut prices by 700%.

    Promises made, Americans wept 🙃

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago

    Canadian here, I remember years ago going to the US, we were at par for money, and a candy bar in the US was like $1 or $2. So the $2 chocolate bar was $2 for us too.

    Now this US$6.49 is basically CA$10, it is insane!

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    What type of store is this in?

    Gas stations, or department stores around me gouge the shit out of you for snacks/candy. Easily $5-6cad for a chocolate bar. A dollar store though, usually sells an Oh Henry (~58g) for $1.25 or $2 for a 'share size' (the 2 smaller bars in one package ~82g).

    Still not great, but much better than $6.50 (USD I assume)

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    [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

    How big are they? There is zero indication that I can see.

    I just looked up the prices for a chocolate bar here in Denmark, The price for a 40-50g chocolate bar is around $2 USD in supermarkets.
    We don't have the ones OP posted, but the price for a 50g Mars bar is $2.20 USD. And that price includes 25% VAT.
    Without VAT it's $1.84 USD.

    So the price in the image seems insane.

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    [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Any amount of money for most US 'chocolate' is too much.

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    [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.

    this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.

    edit: I'm wrong, that says 2 Bars on the edge, not 2 pounds (why is lbs short for pounds anyway?!)

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    [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    This follows my conspiracy theory that grocery stores in areas with high SNAP benefits ussge increase the prices on everything significantly. I have some family in an area where a lot of people rely on SNAP, and spent $20 on a pack of five hot dogs.

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    [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    It's junk food, not fancy nice food. It's bad for you, full stop. Nobody is going to pay that price for junk food. This also goes for fast food that now thinks it's some luxury food, it's not, it's still junk. For God sakes, stop giving these soulless,oney sucking corporations your money. It's that simple. This bs stops when the money stops.

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    [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    I am so glad I am not the only one who thought that this was a 2 pound bar..

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago*

    Funny how they say it's 120 calories per 1/8th of the pack 🙄 Yeah guys, that's how people eat candy bars.

    1/8th at a time.

    The online nutrition information for a king size is similar, in that it says 150 calories for 1/3 of the bar. So the individual one is about 450 calories, while 2 of them is 960, 60 calories more than it should be.

    Or I'm reading the fine print on the packaging wrong, in which case it says 120 calories per 1/6th of the pack, which would bring it out to 720 calories, or, two bars smaller than the "king size," which seems deceptive, considering the packaging says it's a "super king 2 bars."

    Just deceptive marketing and shrinkflation, all wrapped up in one shitty package!

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