The main reason why soda has not gotten more expensive is that the soda companies replaced the sugar in soda with fructose which is much cheaper.
Alec
And when you say coke, do you really mean soda? (Is this Tennessee talk?).
Brendan Loy
No, I mean Coca-Cola. I find the notion of calling all soda “Coke” — or, as they do up in Newfoundland, calling codfish simply “fish” — incredibly impractical.
Alasdair
Is the New England (like in Boston) usage any better, whereby they use the past pluperfect of the colloquial version of the verb “to fornicate” as the name for fish ?
(grin)
Doc
I wonder how these figures look if you don’t pick 1978 as the baseline*. When you’re zeroing everything from the start, picking that start is kind of important. If 1978 was a high-point for soda pricing, or a low point for something else, that would skew the results.
What about the huge increase in availability for fresh fruits and vegetables year round? Would that have an effect on prices for those items? What about canned and frozen veggies? Those still exist, right?
*This is not a coded call for banning small children on airplanes. 🙂
Alasdair
ROTFLMFOWEST !
Brendan Loy
LOL, Doc!! Well played, sir.
By the way, I did ultimately give a more substantive response on that earlier thread, along with an elaborated apology for flying off the handle at you. I mention this only because it was so belated, I don’t know whether you would have seen it. Not implying you’re under some obligation to respond.
Doc
Don’t want to give you a TL;dr on that substantive response… but it’ll have to wait a bit. 4am here.
Brendan Loy
Haha. Well, it took me, what, 3 days? So take your time 🙂
Soda keeps getting cheaper, relative to real food (I write, while drinking a Coke)
The main reason why soda has not gotten more expensive is that the soda companies replaced the sugar in soda with fructose which is much cheaper.
And when you say coke, do you really mean soda? (Is this Tennessee talk?).
No, I mean Coca-Cola. I find the notion of calling all soda “Coke” — or, as they do up in Newfoundland, calling codfish simply “fish” — incredibly impractical.
Is the New England (like in Boston) usage any better, whereby they use the past pluperfect of the colloquial version of the verb “to fornicate” as the name for fish ?
(grin)
I wonder how these figures look if you don’t pick 1978 as the baseline*. When you’re zeroing everything from the start, picking that start is kind of important. If 1978 was a high-point for soda pricing, or a low point for something else, that would skew the results.
What about the huge increase in availability for fresh fruits and vegetables year round? Would that have an effect on prices for those items? What about canned and frozen veggies? Those still exist, right?
*This is not a coded call for banning small children on airplanes. 🙂
ROTFLMFOWEST !
LOL, Doc!! Well played, sir.
By the way, I did ultimately give a more substantive response on that earlier thread, along with an elaborated apology for flying off the handle at you. I mention this only because it was so belated, I don’t know whether you would have seen it. Not implying you’re under some obligation to respond.
Don’t want to give you a TL;dr on that substantive response… but it’ll have to wait a bit. 4am here.
Haha. Well, it took me, what, 3 days? So take your time 🙂
What’s a TL;dr?
Too long, didn’t read
Too Long, didn’t read.
See http://encyclopediadramatica.com/TL;DR
You should enjoy that, but I take no responsibility for any further reading on that site. Even if it is funny.
LOL