I paid $1.47 for a peach yesterday.

The price of everything is outrageous. This time of year you should be able to get a least two or three peaches for a dollar.

Maybe when you bite into it, it will have a golden pit inside.

I already ate it. No golden pit, but at least it didn't have a worm or any bugs in it. But still, $1.47. That's alot.

http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_38046

no bugs that were big enough for you to see that is.

By actually putting your money out for it and making the purchase you are only encouraging the seller to continue gouging peoples wallets. If you feel the price is too steep, unless it is something you need for medical reasons or some other substantial and legitimate reason just let it stay there. Did you need it so you good get the laetrile from the pit? Oh wait that was apricots wasn't it? What other absurdly overpriced items were they selling?

Anyway, if enough peachs rot they (the sellers) will soon learn to lower the price.

The problem with the rising cost of fruit and vegetable crops maimed by harsh climates, is that when the crops are bountiful the following season they won't lower the prices.

Try switching to apples.

It wasn't that they cost so much in general. It is just this one little deli/grocery in my neighborhood. Most everything in there is a rip-off. I am not sure, but I believe I paid over $7.00 once for a pint of ice cream. I usually stay away from the bastards, but last night, I really had an urge, so I sucked it up and paid the exhorbitant price.

That's Manhattan for you.

$1.47 for a peach. Pffft...

Re: I paid $1.47 for a peach yesterday.


Was it worth it?

Was it worth it?

Hmmm...for $1.47, I got to eat the peach, which I wanted, plus I got to tell this fascinating story about what a rip-off it was...I would have to say...not yet, but I'm working on making it worth it.

Let's see, we just got 5 or 6 peaches this evening for....what was it....? Oh yeah, free. Our neighbor's peach tree just about hits our windows.

anyone remember the Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach"?

I guess the alternative to walking to the corner grocery in Manhattan and paying $1.47 for a peach would be living in the crazy burbs and having to get in a car and drive somewhere to buy a peach for less.

You get to live in Manhattan, kicky. That more than makes up for the price of a peach.

Sometime in the future you will say "Wow, I just paid $9.98 for a peach. I remember when peaches were $1.47. Those were the good old days..."

I paid $29.99 for the peach tree I planted last spring.

Give a man a peach and he'll eat a peach. Plant a peach tree and you can loaf under it for decades.

or if you're one of the hamburgers' friends, you can guard it with an air rifle for a decade or so in hopes of saving a peach from the squirrels, and then go to the store to buy your peaches

I still have that album...

That grocer probably has to pay serious lease money.

Can you really loaf UNDER a peach tree - the one's I've seen have been bred down to about 12 feet, tops.

That's an incredible story, kicky. 1.47 seems pretty steep to me.