Ambar wrote:chetak wrote:
loose dal is much less than what has been quoted, which is what many people prefer to buy, all other edible items are used mostly by the middle class have been available in plenty, perhaps cooking oil has risen more sharply than others. Onion and tomato prices are in check, barring seasonal variations or due to rain. Buffer stocks of onions have already reached the markets some days ago, and the onion prices have cooled down.
It's a strain, yes but when people demand free vaccines, PDS for a vast majority, deposits in the jandhan accounts, and other things, someone has to pay. It is literally a sin tax on petrol and diesel.
The pandemic took everyone by surprise and India, under Modi has managed much better than most countries did.
If OPEC has cartelized and jacked up the prices, reduced production, then food producers should cartelize as well and jack up the prices for the uncultured ayerabs, which should learn them dopes fairly quickly that the rest of the world does not like them.
We seem to idolize these bedouin bozos by envying them for their lavish spending while overlooking their jehadi mischief and lavish ways of conspicuous consumption, all of which the rest of the world pays for, one way or the other.
No one talks of pollution and toxic emissions from these countries, which is huge because of their refineries and other power plants, industries etc
one small question, what are these brown eggs that you talk about
Brown eggs are laid by bigger chicken with darker feathers, the belief in urban cycles in India is that brown eggs just like brown bread has a higher nutrition value and hence are more expensive.
All prices are in "namma Bengaluru" as of last week. Not sure about vegetable prices being in "check", desi variety of tomatoes (what they call plum tomatoes in the west) were going for anywhere between Rs 65 to Rs 75 per kilo. Dal is moong and togare (tuvar), both store branded variety and not the tata safal kind which is even more expensive.The thing with justifying high petrol prices using vaccines or PDS or oil bonds is that when oil prices were below $60 for much of the last 7 yrs, not a rupee of that low global oil prices was passed on to the end consumer. Now that the oil prices have reversed, keeping the excise duties at the same level means a shock each time one has to visit the fuel pump.
The first step remediating something is to acknowledge we have a problem. While finance ministers and central bankers from Singapore to UK to US to Brazil are atleast talking about taking measures to curb inflation (all thanks to unprecedented money printing by US and Europe), our FM is still living in denial .
Even that prized idiot govind rajan has shut up about the Indian economy, as has gita gopinath. Most of these doom gloom commie cassandras have been proven unworthy of their hyped up qualifications
Seetharaman has done well for herself, managing her way commendably through the landmines and quicksand. Inflation, yes, but who doesn't have it.
It will be managed as usual and sorted out. There are much more pressing worries on Modi's plate right now. we just need to wait patiently.
Modi wants to come back, even more than what many guys here think. His work is not done yet. He is a seasoned politician and knows the pitfalls well. He has always said that four years of hard work and one year of politics, which includes giveaways and subsidies.
I shop as does the wife.
The prices are not reflective of what you see, unless you are shopping in some super duper posh area.
I remember a long time ago in bombay, when vegetable prices in the colaba market and in the dadar market were in the ratio of 5-6:1. It is more now, I am told
yesterday, tomatoes were 30/kg, onions 40/kg, a crate of eggs 150/30 eggs, fresh button mushrooms 40/box, oyster mushrooms 65-70/box. many veggie shops are accepting credit cards, apart from paytm. For us, prices for the same items vary from one end of the road to the other with differentials sometimes touching 20Rs/kg for the same produce
chicken differentials vary from Rs 30-45, meat from 50-60 between fancy shops and local butchers. there are two non halal/jatka meat suppliers doing fairly good business
some other veggies are at their seasonal highs
there is no qualitative difference between brown and white eggs. wokes do not believe this and talk schitt about free range and organic. It is a load of BS.
White and brown eggs are the most common in India, often with the same poultry farm producing both colors and feeding all their layers with the same identical diet/feed.
the shell comes in various colors and is dependant on the color of the feathers, more accurately, they are dependant on the color of the earlobe of the hen that produces it.
Which Chicken Breeds Lay Colored Eggs
color of the yoke can vary from pale yellow to bright yellow to saffron depending on the diet of the hen
the color of the eggshell doesn't make jack of a difference except to one's purse, no matter what anyone says.
double-yolked eggs are available, usually called super eggs in bombay.
My double yolked egg seller has passed on to his 72, so am looking out for another.
One may finally land up in the anda market in shivajinagar
look at current sale prices in bigbazzar, more, reliance, spar etc.
best to buy from there in quantity and at much lesser cost if prices at local kaka shops are hurting anyone.