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UniversalParadox
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Price of a can of sardines
#13121028 - 08/29/10 08:39 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've seen cans of sardines at the Dollar Store(expiration date: 2013). I've seen them in the grocery store going for $1.49(expiration date: 2014). I've seen other's at the grocery store going for $4.50(expiration date: 2015).
In the next 5 years...
What do you think the price will do?
What do you think the value will do?
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ClammyJoe
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I predict a Futurama like market.
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Re: Price of a can of sardines [Re: ClammyJoe]
#13123905 - 08/30/10 01:28 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Futurama is definitely in part responsible for my recent affliction for anchovies. Though in larger part, it is the pizza parlor known as Carino's on La Jolla Village Drive in the San Diego area that really turned me on to this bait.
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Re: Price of a can of sardines [Re: geokills]
#13137784 - 09/02/10 10:14 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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You should really check out Luigis in North Park which I think is the best pizza in San Diego. Second would be Bronx pizza in Hillcrest. Those are generally known as the two best, the order changes on the person however.
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UniversalParadox
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Anyone else collect cans of sardines?
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I don't collect tins of sardines, but I do have a pretty hefty food stockpile, mostly expiration date 2015. I've been rotating for years now so nothing ever expires.
We have passed peak oil. Petroleum products are going to steadily get more expensive, and with it the work you do with them, like trawling and canning sardines, and making the tin of the can, the ink, and transporting if from Sardinia to where you live.
Its not like your neighbor gave up bathing and now has a sardine farm in his tub, we are talking thousands of miles of transportation here.
In addition to that we are fishing the oceans empty.
On top of that, inflation caused by the crisis and bailouts still is seeping into the economy at large.
So what do we have?
-The same amount of fishing, canning and transporting will get more expensive. FACT.
-You will need to do more fishing to fill a tin of sardines, which is more expensive, FACT.
-Inflation will increase, lowering the intrinsic value represented by one dollar, FACT
If you take these three facts theres only one likely option - Over the coming years prices will go up and the intrinsic value of a tin of sardines will go up.
But, you'd be a bell end if you bought a box of the $4,50 sardines when you can buy a box of the $1 sardines. If you shop around you will find sardines that will last till 2015 AND be in the low price range. If you anticipate to empty the box of sardines comfortably before the expiration in 2013, by all means get a box at the dollar store.
Unless godawful inflation will strike its not likely that one extra year of storage is worth paying 1.5x as much for it.
If you love sardines and eat them often, go to the dollarstore and buy a box, but make a serious but polite haggling attempt since you are not buying a tin but an entire box, which makes and saves them money. (they get rid of it faster makes them money as the shelf can be used to sell other goods, and they save money by not having to constantly restock the shelfspaces with new tins by a paid employee)
My main proteins in storage are 1 lb cans of salmon in brine, and 1/3 kg tins of corned beef. 1 can and 1 tin are all the animal protein you need for 1 person during 1 week, its cheap per unit mass of animal protein, tasty, versatile and lasts till 2015.
As a reminder not to take myself too seriously I added 5 rolls of tin foil to my stockpile to not get too paranoid in case shit really DOES hit the fan.
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UniversalParadox
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Re: Price of a can of sardines [Re: Asante]
#13224226 - 09/20/10 09:26 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Can't they just build more fish hatcheries to up the fish to be caught? It just seems like food is so abundant. We(U.S.A.) send food aid to other countries.
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Asante
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Food is so abundent ONLY because of cheap oil. Oil's been up to $140 a barrel. If it had stayed there for a while there would be many dire consequences, food shortages among them.
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The abundance of food is an unsustainable illusion. There is enough food on this planet for our current population... but even so, we will ultimately have to get used to being fed with more grains, not with rib-eye steaks and Chilean sea bass and all the other neat foods we over consume every day.
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Sardines have definitely raised in price. They also are fished in many other places than just Sardinia (Norway, Portugal, Spain, Maine, Peru, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco, Turkey, Japan, Australia, Scotland, England, Indonesia...you name it)
Ive seen the Moroccan ones going for $1. Japanese going for $2.50. Saw some Israeli packed ones (imported from somewhere else) going for $4.00
I am thinking about beginning a collection of sardine tins, and rotating them out as they get closer to date.
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