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> Well I would have been a great informant, but see I just moved from
> NY to FL and I'm adjusting to the change in prices from one region
> to the next. Milk is *much* more expensive. And cheese, too. Is
> it possible to get good cheese in Florida without spending $10.00 a
> pound?
No, it is not possible. Not anywhere in the South. It has been almost 20 years since I moved from Wisconsin and I still can't get over what people call cheese in the South. The only way to get decent cheese is at a supermarket in an affluent area or a Whole Fodds type place place. Either way it is a ripoff.
And don't even get me started about crap they sell in the "deli" section which purports to be German potato salad.
> But, I about died when I saw that I could
> buy a mango for 50 cents instead of 3 bucks.
Or fresh seafood cheap.
> In any event, I
> haven't really noticed a big shift in prices up or down, though I do
> think, again, that meat prices have shot down quite a bit. That
> *may* be an artefact of living in Florida, but I think I read or
> heard that meat prices are lower.
There was a severe drought in Texas this summer. It killed over 90% of the cotton crop and there was nothing to graze cattle on so they were sent to market early and that drove beef prices down.
-j
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Joseph Noonan jfn1 at msc.com