Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Digest for misc.consumers.frugal-living@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

trader4@optonline.net: Mar 18 06:24AM -0700

On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 1:38:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Black wrote:
 
> I saw an article some time back about how the price of lobster at the dock
> was way down (I can't remember the reason), making it quite hard to be the
> ones catching them.
 
Making it quite hard to earn a decent profit catching lobsters
doesn't equate with them being cheap and the food poor people are
eating. At $2.50 a pound wholesale, the fishermen may be making
little or no profit, but that still puts them at $5+ retail. And
considering what meat there is on them versus waste, you can more
that double that price. How does that compare to other available
food sources? It sure isn't what poor people are eating. And I'd note
that those periods of low prices are the exception, you stated
that lobster has always been poor people's food by the sea. I'm
2 miles from the sea and you're wrong. I've never been poor and
still lobster is something we enjoy only occasionally.
 
 
 
> Yet the prices didn't go down at the consumer end.
 
So then how are poor people eating lobsters at the seashore? Prices
don't just magically behave differently here.
 
 
 
 
 
> and was always bringing them home.
 
> I'd discount the second one, but not the first.
 
> Michael
 
There is no first. And the second, well if you're stuffing lobsters
into your purse, your shorts, or getting some special employee deal,
then it's an exceptional case, not what most poor people are doing.
Good grief.
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