Ironically, the spud is absurdly more expensive than giving candy.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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It is like a dollar each, but the smiles on kids faces as they walk home with the beginnings of a stew are priceless
A dollar each? It's $3.50 for a 10lb bag here
What could a potato cost, 10 dollars?
Yeah, same here, and even that's high. I know you can get deals where you can get 2 of those bags for like $5. It's one of the cheapest vegetables you can get. Definitely a great food to buy if you're not doing too well financially. Cheap, nutritious, filling, and tons of recipes.
For comparison I got my Halloween bag of candy at Costco for $20 bucks... candy is ridiculously expensive.
I just pulled up the [Department Store] app I have on my phone and looked at the individual prices, it says $0.82 each
I'm gonna be honest, I could not possibly tell you how much a potato weighs, so I have no idea how many potatoes come in the $3.27 5 lbs bag
That's if you buy individually wrapped, gotta buy them by the bag.
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You can spend $1.45 a potato where I'm at
Yeah well we can't all live in San Francisco
βItβs one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?β
What potatoes you buying are they gold encrusted?
Where I am you can basically get them by the crate load. I have no idea what one individual potato cost because I've never bought one individual potato. But my estimate would be about three for a dollar. Big ones like in the photo not little tiny ones.
Also don't get no ones in plastic wrapping they're more expensive and they're not any better. Just wash your vegetables. The mud and flavour admittedly it's mud flavour.
Bro, you hand me finger foods I'm gunna eat it on the way back, just ask for a little salt at each house you stop by.
No way that can be true, how much for a kg of potatoes where you live
In the Philippines they're around 4$/kg where I live, and they're not even really nice potatoes.
I need to check my potato privilege. They're less than 1β¬/kg here
Vegetables are oddly over priced there, in general.
Even most fruit. Mangos though... Mangos, rice, beer and rum. Everything you need!
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Kids just think theyβre neat!
This trick only works so long as only one house in the neighborhood does it.
They should have IOU as an option, they use this IOU to claim more chocolate next holloween. Teaching kids finance while there at it.
That's great until a few years down the line some kid shows up with a fat stack of them and cleans you of all the candy.
Yeah but the kid question also apparently got a Snickers bar. So their taste is somewhat debatable.
I'd choose the potato as well but that's because I'm an adult and really don't care about candy
But Snickers is the manliest chocolate bar because it has nuts.
"Am I a joke to you?!"
-Payday
Sorry but I don't get that reference
Payday is a candy bar covered in peanuts.
Just to ruin the joke I will be the one to point out peanuts are legumes, not nuts.
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I've never seen them in my country.
Just to ruin the joke I will be the one to point out peanuts are legumes, not nuts.
I mean... testicles aren't nuts either, they're just called nuts.
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You prefer a potato over chocolate caramel and peanuts, and you question the kid's taste?
Obligatory: Po-tay-toes! Boil βem, mash βem, stick βem in a stewβ¦
Is this Russian halloween?
Is dream. Potato is rock.
With a potato you can do anything ... at very low quality.
And I do. Every day.
My house is the Pickle House!
In mother Russia.... is potato
one-ups the potato house by offering fully-loaded baked potatoes
Next thing you know, there's an evil AI running on dozens of potatoes
Makes sense, potatoes are basically the candy of the vegetable world. Just a giant ball of starchy carbs.
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