remember when $10 was an outrageous price for one banana - ThreadSky

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oldenoughtosay.bsky.social • 53 days ago

remember when $10 was an outrageous price for one banana

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alexwlchan.bsky.social•53 days ago

soon it will be, just in the other direction

notesnthemargin.bsky.social•53 days ago

I noticed yesterday that the price of kale has SKYROCKETED (okay, it went up by 5p, but still)

austinaperson.bsky.social•53 days ago

I keep thinking about a scene in the Balkan Trilogy where they come across a merchant selling bananas and are so floored that they offer him money not to buy one but just in gratitude for the opportunity to see one

austinaperson.bsky.social•53 days ago

could be us is what I’m sayin

tacothecat.bsky.social•52 days ago

Is that not outrageous no? 🙀

oldenoughtosay.bsky.social•52 days ago

give it a minute for the tariffs to hit

caitlindeangelis.bsky.social•53 days ago

My 11yo got really into scrambled eggs in January. He has recently changed his daily breakfast order to a banana smoothie. Like a king demanding a banquet of exotic fruits and spices.

ericb013.bsky.social•53 days ago

bellinghman.bsky.social•53 days ago

Which reminds me, it's time to reread Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, in which the rarity of bananas in WW2 London is an element

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