[lbo-talk] methyl idodide on strawberries

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 06:57:47 PDT 2011


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> [Great Depression Anecdote: One day in 1939  my uncle went to market with
> 300 crates of strawberries. About 4 hours later he came home with 300 crates
> of strawberries, which they dumped to the hogs: The highest bid had been 15
> cents a crate, and the packaging cost 22 cents. Pickers got paid 32 cents a
> crate. We had lots of shortcake.]

That sounds like a really weird version of Hell.

-- Andy



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