Joe Duck

The price of flour depends on the grocery aisle.

Wow, that may be the first time I’ve spell “Aisle” since learning to … spell.

OK, so I’m noticing that processed flour products really vary in price in ways that simply can’t be explained by supply of flour, demand for flour, or anything remotely related to flour.   At pennies a pound, flour is cheap.   So is bread at perhaps a buck a pound, maybe two if you get really good stuff. But crackers, which are also almost all flour, cost a LOT, especially premium crackers which can run you over $5 per pound.    And then there are cookies, which seem to vary in ways that are downright amazing.   Little specialty cookies from Pepperidge farms can approach $10 per pound where the coconut oil saturated oatmeal specials take us back to the dollar a pound that seems most consistent with the price of flour.    Obviously labor production costs vary, but I don’t think it’s that either.  Marketing?   Maybe, but many of the cheapies seem to have more marketing than expensive stuff (Wonder bread (cheap) vs our local artisan bread (expensive).    The latter spends a fraction of the former.

What does all this have to do with Global Warming?  Nothing.  I just thought I’d put in that spurious tag for fun.

The mystery continues…..

September 1, 2006 - Posted by JoeDuck | Global Warming