So much winning….
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day drinking ahead
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Canadians will probably have retaliatory tariffs on American produce here.
I’ll post prices for the same vegetables I listed above in 4 weeks and again in 8 weeks.
Many Canadians are very upset about the tariffs. There are movements to buy Canadian, or anything that isn’t American, if Canadian isn’t an option.
I have always bought American-grown produce over Mexican, South American or Chinese produce. I’ll still be buying American produce because I trust American pesticide use slightly more than other foreign pesticide use. We also eat a lot of fresh vegetables. The reality is that most of the fresh imported vegetables I buy from Oct to May come from the Valley in California.
Most Canadians think of Americans as our friends. This Tariff business is hitting people on an emotional level in addition to a economic threat and reality.
It feels like betrayal.
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Do you ever recall Mexican produce being recalled. I never buy from China because a long time i read that they sometimes used fertilizer from their outhouses. Sorry about that I dont know a polite way of saying it.
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Sometimes, that’s called nightsoil. I think it’s more common in some other very poor countries than in the produce being exported from China, but who knows? It used to happen in some border towns south of the Rio Grande as well, 50 years ago.
I can’t remember any recalls with respect to Mexican produce. I had been trusting the American food inspection system almost as much as the Canadian food inspection system until recently.
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Likewise, many of your southern neighbors are upset by the mention of the word tariff, in any shape or form. We’ll see what happens. As I said up thread, fasten your seat belts…
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I hear you. And I feel right along with you.
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I stopped by one of the 2 green grocers in Toronto’s Little Italy last night, Fresh Fruit Market
This is what the shop looks like in warmer weather.
I paid $3.99 CAD/lb for nectarines, and $5.99 CAD/lb for Orri tangerines from Jaffa yesterday.
The produce is cheaper at this kind of place, but the milk and butter are convenience store prices. Over $7 for the 2 litre carton of milk that costs $5.79 at the Metro grocery store 200 metres away. I admit, I have never bought any milk or cheese, or canned goods, at theses places. I only buy products when I visit.
Produce. My Google Pixel AI autocorrect, which I have attempted to turn off, is willful.
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New thread for tariff-specific price experiences, or keep it all here?
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New thread, I think.
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What a tarrific idea.
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I bought a handful of avocados today (3/4.99 USD) wondering if they would soon be prohibitively expensive.
What are you seeing?
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Too early to tell, but expect nearly all prices to go up. The Idiocracy might learn, or it might not. It doesn’t care.
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Did a quick Costco run today which reconfirmed why I don’t Costco on the weekends. $220 later. . .the 2 pack of the 3 liter bottles of olive oil was $56. This should last us most of the heat but yikes
This being after last week’s $60; on restocking mr Autumm on frosted Mimi wheats and raisins bran crunch. Finally on sale for a tolerable price. He’s slightly addicted but has been well behaved with my no cereal not on sale rule
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Bingo.
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We are already paying ~$3 CAD/ avocado in Canada, I’ll let you know when our retaliatory tariff pushes them up to $5 CAD.
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I thought this thread was supposed to be about food items that increased in price and by how much – not who or which country imposed which tariff(s).
Today, I’m hoping to secure some eggs that are on sale for $4/dozen, they were sold out over the weekend.
Bananas are on sale for $.49/pound, I saw a Jaime Oliver recipe over the weekend for a Banoffee pie. I wouldn’t mind trying to make one.
Cucumbers are $.45 each – might grab a couple and use them in a salad??
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Hard to not have some political feelings about this when these are all brought to bear because of deranged political stunts.
Since this was just enacted over the last few days, I don’t think we’ll see price increases so soon. Give it a month, and then when the price of food skyrockets it will be hard to tell if it’s because there are no more laborers to actually work the fields or if it’s tariffs, or both! Por que no los dos, verdad?
Immediate casualty though is that one of the popular online Chinese tea stores that exports to many tea connoisseurs in the US has announced they still stop shipping to the US due to the tariffs. Such a shame, as they were a popular option for good Chinese tea, but with reasonable prices. If you are a tea fan and loved loose-leaf Chinese teas, this will be painful.
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I’ve been stocking up on avocados to hedge against price increases, I have 1000, enough to last a couple years……wait I’m just being told there’s a fatal flaw to my plan
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