janradder

I haven't bought any corn yet this year - maybe this weekend (what is in the grocery stores isn't ever very good). However, earlier this week I went to a grocery store near work to buy something for lunch. I thought maybe an apple and a hard roll and some cheese or yogurt might be good. So, I head for the produce dept and the first apples I see are $4.99/lb. Apples like dellicious, empire, gala etc were 3.99 and 2.99 a pound. No apple for me. Oranges were priced the same way - peaches (which are in season now here) were 2.99 a pound as were Bartlett pears - small, bruised up ones. Other pears were $3.99/lb. Plums were the same. I ended up buying, of all things, half a pound of Black Velvet Apricots (that tasted more like plums - but were sweet and sooooo juicy)) for $1.99 a pound. The price of food is as out of control as the price of oil. I'll let you know what corn at the farm stands is here when I finally buy some.