Bananas have sky rocketed to $7.00 a kilo here. Spuds up to $7 for a 5 kilo bag.

How are the fruit & veg prices are going in your areas?????

Lucky1 said:

Bananas have sky rocketed to $7.00 a kilo here. Spuds up to $7 for a 5 kilo bag.

How are the fruit & veg prices are going in your areas?????

Bananas are so overpriced in Australia, and they are bloody awful. We should be importing them from PNG. Longy, bring us back a bunch the next time you’re there?

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Bananas have sky rocketed to $7.00 a kilo here. Spuds up to $7 for a 5 kilo bag.

How are the fruit & veg prices are going in your areas?????

Bananas are so overpriced in Australia, and they are bloody awful. We should be importing them from PNG. Longy, bring us back a bunch the next time you’re there?

What makes them better from PNG??? Is it the size or taste, texture………………………

Lucky1 said:

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Bananas have sky rocketed to $7.00 a kilo here. Spuds up to $7 for a 5 kilo bag.

How are the fruit & veg prices are going in your areas?????

Bananas are so overpriced in Australia, and they are bloody awful. We should be importing them from PNG. Longy, bring us back a bunch the next time you’re there?

What makes them better from PNG??? Is it the size or taste, texture………………………

taste.

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

pain master said:

Bananas are so overpriced in Australia, and they are bloody awful. We should be importing them from PNG. Longy, bring us back a bunch the next time you’re there?

What makes them better from PNG??? Is it the size or taste, texture………………………

taste.

Why would a flowery crappy tasting banana be any different if it were a different size?

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

pain master said:

Bananas are so overpriced in Australia, and they are bloody awful. We should be importing them from PNG. Longy, bring us back a bunch the next time you’re there?

What makes them better from PNG??? Is it the size or taste, texture………………………

taste.

Wow….. best you so miss them.

The Adelaide Show has the best apples the elf has ever tasted.

pain master said:

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

What makes them better from PNG??? Is it the size or taste, texture………………………

taste.

Why would a flowery crappy tasting banana be any different if it were a different size?

I have no idea……… My brain is cooked…. and I’m sticking to that excuse……lol

Lucky1 said:

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

What makes them better from PNG??? Is it the size or taste, texture………………………

taste.

Wow….. best you so miss them.

The Adelaide Show has the best apples the elf has ever tasted.

Well those apples would have come from somewhere… perhaps he needs to go to Lenswood and visit the coldstores?

I’ve heard of Lenswood…..

wouldn’t know the supermarket prices. I buy my organic veges by the box now, home delivered.

bluegreen said:

wouldn’t know the supermarket prices. I buy my organic veges by the box now, home delivered.

Do you chat to the delivery man or does he drop the box and run? Or Delivery lady….

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

wouldn’t know the supermarket prices. I buy my organic veges by the box now, home delivered.

Do you chat to the delivery man or does he drop the box and run? Or Delivery lady….

I say hello but they have deliveries to make, you know? Husband and wife team. Have had a short chat to the wife once.

bluegreen said:

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

wouldn’t know the supermarket prices. I buy my organic veges by the box now, home delivered.

Do you chat to the delivery man or does he drop the box and run? Or Delivery lady….

I say hello but they have deliveries to make, you know? Husband and wife team. Have had a short chat to the wife once.

At my local stupidmarket, there is a collective of self service tills were you can buy your foodstuff and stuff off without needing to acknowledge anyone in the store. In fact, you can wear your ipod and sunglasses and kinda be impervious to the whole system. But then… you can get into your climate controlled car (I got me one and it is pretty comfy) and head back to your cubicle (if at work) or your cubicle with toilet (home) and no-one would know.

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Bananas have sky rocketed to $7.00 a kilo here. Spuds up to $7 for a 5 kilo bag.

How are the fruit & veg prices are going in your areas?????

Bananas are so overpriced in Australia, and they are bloody awful. We should be importing them from PNG. Longy, bring us back a bunch the next time you’re there?

Goodness, if Aus bananas are awful then I don’t want to try the real ones – prefer to stay happy with what I have. I was so, so happy to get back from the UK and back to proper bananas – the ‘nanas over there were awful, and would only keep 1-2 days at most.

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

pain master said:

Do you chat to the delivery man or does he drop the box and run? Or Delivery lady….

I say hello but they have deliveries to make, you know? Husband and wife team. Have had a short chat to the wife once.

At my local stupidmarket, there is a collective of self service tills were you can buy your foodstuff and stuff off without needing to acknowledge anyone in the store. In fact, you can wear your ipod and sunglasses and kinda be impervious to the whole system. But then… you can get into your climate controlled car (I got me one and it is pretty comfy) and head back to your cubicle (if at work) or your cubicle with toilet (home) and no-one would know.

This is something I don’t get. Everyone went crazy about extended trading hours (here in Wait Awhile, anyway), because it would mean too much extra work for the check out chicks/lads. But the trend seems to be for less check out chicks and more self service checkouts. So what gives?! Maybe they will let me shop after hours if I promise to use the self service checkout :D

Lucky1 said:

Bananas have sky rocketed to $7.00 a kilo here. Spuds up to $7 for a 5 kilo bag.

How are the fruit & veg prices are going in your areas?????

the same – less than two bucks per kilo for spuds is ok. buy the unwashed ones they are fresher IMHO.
beans and carrots i buy here are still worthless colouring – no taste and hardly edible unless cooked beyond recognition.

Problem with supermarket F&V is that 95% of it rots before they sell it. This is fairly standard. Always has been a problem in the supply of F&V.
The best way to get your victuals is from a local market or from your own garden.
When the grower who gets 5% of the price you pay at the supermarket or fruit and veg vendor, can sell it direct to you fresh off the tree.. and get a far better price for himself while you get them fresher and cheaper.. is a win win for everyone.

Our F & V, even at both Coles and WW, is competitively priced…it’s rather good quality too, even if some of the flavour has gone AWOL…the better veg (and often dearer) can be found at the local Foodworks, where deliveries are from more “local” areas…as in prolly not interstate…

Dinetta said:

Our F & V, even at both Coles and WW, is competitively priced…it’s rather good quality too, even if some of the flavour has gone AWOL…the better veg (and often dearer) can be found at the local Foodworks, where deliveries are from more “local” areas…as in prolly not interstate…

as far as it goes.. I mainly eat from my garden .. and could easily feed up to 30 people on fruit alone. Up to 200 people on walnuts. I chuck most of it .. back on the garden.

Spuds – Free
Tomatoes – 1 kg $ 1.40
Cauilflower – Whole $1.60
Broccoli – Whole 2.00
Carrots – 1kg 80c
Apples 2kg is 2.50
Oranges 1.00 for 1kg
Cucumber 50c each
Lettuce 1.30 each
Onions 60c a kg

thats from work as we by it in bulk that was we get a week, But at work we via boxes and pallets.

Now how does this make sense? My local stupidmarket has a big coldstore/warehouse near Brisvegas, so Bowen Mangoes and Bananas leave my area and head south to the warehouse where they are then distributed back to my local store… My banana has travelled 2,800kms to get me when it grew on a tree 100kms away?

pain master said:

Now how does this make sense? My local stupidmarket has a big coldstore/warehouse near Brisvegas, so Bowen Mangoes and Bananas leave my area and head south to the warehouse where they are then distributed back to my local store… My banana has travelled 2,800kms to get me when it grew on a tree 100kms away?

Used to happen to our local citrus, but not any more AFAIK…

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Bananas have sky rocketed to $7.00 a kilo here. Spuds up to $7 for a 5 kilo bag.

How are the fruit & veg prices are going in your areas?????

Bananas are so overpriced in Australia, and they are bloody awful. We should be importing them from PNG. Longy, bring us back a bunch the next time you’re there?

Crikey, i won’t pay for bananas.
I don’t mind bagging them, trimming and pruning them, picking them, but stuff paying foe them.
You will probablly find that if you shop locally, preferably from farmers markets and a green grocers, and buy what is in season, you’ll do OK for

you’ll do OK for….fruit n vegies.
Freight costs will keep stuff expensive.
Welcome to the future.

I used to work on a banana farm just outside of Darwin that grew the most devine tasting fruit, better than my pops and he is a savant. They would pick them hard and green, gass them and then ship all over Australia. The problem is the gassing so they will travel well, makes them taste like bird droppings.

Occasionally we would come across a dropped bunch in the field that had sun ripened and there would be an all stop to work. Even saw two blokes nearly get into a fight over them, they really were that good.

And the wasteage, OMG. One tiny little blemish and the whole banana would be thrown away, at the end of every shift there was a full semi trailer worth that had to be disposed of. We had trouble retaining asian workers as they just couldnt handle it, especially the cultures that eat more than just the fruit.

shell bell said:

I used to work on a banana farm just outside of Darwin that grew the most devine tasting fruit, better than my pops and he is a savant. They would pick them hard and green, gass them and then ship all over Australia. The problem is the gassing so they will travel well, makes them taste like bird droppings.

Occasionally we would come across a dropped bunch in the field that had sun ripened and there would be an all stop to work. Even saw two blokes nearly get into a fight over them, they really were that good.

And the wasteage, OMG. One tiny little blemish and the whole banana would be thrown away, at the end of every shift there was a full semi trailer worth that had to be disposed of. We had trouble retaining asian workers as they just couldnt handle it, especially the cultures that eat more than just the fruit.

Very informative post Shell Bell. MrD and I were discussing the issue, and he asked when was the last time I bought a tomato with a little bit of green in it, and I said since the last greengrocer shut down, never. I used to buy a lot of my fruit and veg for the week, for example buying the tomatoes in various shades of green so they would continually just ripen…and the greengrocer would bag stuff up as “cookers”…and these bags almost never got thrown out…criminal if you ask me, and I’ve got all sympathy for those Asian workers…

Even saw two blokes nearly get into a fight over them, they really were that good.
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i was in jamaica for 4 weeks back in 1985. the bananas from the markets there were to die for. the coffee, water melon and those big green bananas that you cook with (?) were also extremely edible.

shell bell said:

I used to work on a banana farm just outside of Darwin that grew the most devine tasting fruit, better than my pops and he is a savant. They would pick them hard and green, gass them and then ship all over Australia. The problem is the gassing so they will travel well, makes them taste like bird droppings.

Occasionally we would come across a dropped bunch in the field that had sun ripened and there would be an all stop to work. Even saw two blokes nearly get into a fight over them, they really were that good.

And the wasteage, OMG. One tiny little blemish and the whole banana would be thrown away, at the end of every shift there was a full semi trailer worth that had to be disposed of. We had trouble retaining asian workers as they just couldnt handle it, especially the cultures that eat more than just the fruit.

:(