| "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Mar 19 05:29PM -0700 The Real Bev wrote: >>> orange in the winter was a such a delicacy they were given as gifts >>> for Christmas. > OK, you're definitely not talking about 1961. Where in new england did you live in 1961? |
| "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Mar 19 05:33PM -0700 >> 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. OP's talking about 1961. Things have changed. It used to be that local products in season were very cheap. Now, the best of everything gets shipped across the nation/world to where better prices can be had. So local prices don't get the big drops. |
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