Ironically, the spud is absurdly more expensive than giving candy.
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?
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
This, priced at $0.375 per potato, puts a potato at 213 grams
That’s if you buy individually wrapped, gotta buy them by the bag.
A standard russet potato is 148g(according to the nutritional information on a sack o’ potatoes) , 5 lbs=2270g. 2270÷148=15.3. $3.27÷15.3 potatoes is 21 cents per tater.
I think I estimated about three for a dollar so that more or less tracks. Who’s paying a dollar each?
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.
You can spend $1.45 a potato where I’m at
Yeah well we can’t all live in San Francisco
‘It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?’
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.
It is like a dollar each
What the absolute fuck
I’m just sayin what I’m seein, $0.82 is like a dollar ish
Lmao what is wrong with the US
Unchecked capitalism, to put it simply.
Is that a single, wrapped, potato?
oh god
What potatoes you buying are they gold encrusted?
Where I am you can basically get them by the crate load. I have no idea what one individual potato cost because I’ve never bought one individual potato. But my estimate would be about three for a dollar. Big ones like in the photo not little tiny ones.
Also don’t get no ones in plastic wrapping they’re more expensive and they’re not any better. Just wash your vegetables. The mud and flavour admittedly it’s mud flavour.
Why are wrapped in plastic? Don’t they usually come in some sort of netting and or loose and you can get as many as you like in a cloth bag?
Usually the ones individually wrapped in plastic are being sold as microwaveable.
I guess we’ll just ignore the fact that you don’t need to wrap a potato in plastic to microwave it successfully.
In fact, you really shouldn’t wrap your potato in plastic to microwave it. That’s an awful idea.
That said, all potatoes are microwaveable anyway.
I think the idea is to show that it’s already been cleaned and is ready to be microwaved without having to clean it.
It’s still stupid and I would never buy one when I can get 5 lb bag for not that much more, but I don’t think the idea is to microwave it in the plastic.
No way that can be true, how much for a kg of potatoes where you live
In the Philippines they’re around 4$/kg where I live, and they’re not even really nice potatoes.
I need to check my potato privilege. They’re less than 1€/kg here
Vegetables are oddly over priced there, in general.
Even most fruit. Mangos though… Mangos, rice, beer and rum. Everything you need!
It’s really stupid. At one point fucking onions were at 10$/kg.
The amount of food shipped in from China is too high.
In Lithuania, they are 0.35€/kg right now. Candy is at least 20 times that amount.
Obligatory: Po-tay-toes! Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew…
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.
Nah, its investing right? You just tell the kid there was a market crash and the IOUs are worthless, then keep the candy for yourself.
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.
We didn’t get these in Canada but I recall this was my father’s favorite and I felt it tasted liked it looked: https://candyfunhouse.ca/products/eat-more-candy-bar
Can’t forget the dick vein.
Is that a snickers in your knickers or are you just happy to see me??
You prefer a potato over chocolate caramel and peanuts, and you question the kid’s taste?
Is this Russian halloween?
Is dream. Potato is rock.
My house is the Pickle House!
Like the Kung Fu master Bruce Willis said, “Be potato, my friend.”
Kids just think they’re neat!
Luxury item marketingMakes sense, potatoes are basically the candy of the vegetable world. Just a giant ball of starchy carbs.
Did you want to cause a run on potatoes? Because this is how you cause a run on potatoes
With a potato you can do anything … at very low quality.
And I do. Every day.
Next thing you know, there’s an evil AI running on dozens of potatoes
Potatoes and molasses!
This trick only works so long as only one house in the neighborhood does it.
