On Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 7:38:19 PM UTC-6, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 11/3/2018 8:49 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > The convenience food business is getting ridiculous while they test
> > just how much lazy people are willing to pay for "convenience". I
> > don't know how long these have been out, but I got a free package
> > for buying some meatballs that I would have bought anyway. It's
> > about 1/4lb of pasta cooked and packaged in a hermetically sealed
> > bag.
> >
> > https://www.barilla.com/en-us/produc...sta?sort=alpha
> >
> > My store sells them for $1.68. Which comes out to $6.72/lb. Normal
> > price for a pound of Barilla dried pasta is $1.25. So that's a 550%
> > increase in price.
> >
> > Sheesh. I felt stupid jsut getting one for free.
> >
> > -sw
> >
>
> Only way I could see buying that was if I wanted it for a lunch at work
> where it is not easy to cook pasta. Usually I'd just bring it from home
> as leftovers.

Exactly!! And WRAPPED IN SINGLE USE PLASTIC!! DUMB!!!! :-(

And that's why United Statesians generally are dumb as ****! Can't even BOIL WATER!! Many actually BUY THAT CRAP! :-(

My Indian housemate puts her cooked pasta lunch in a GLASSLock snap on lid REUSABLE container, and she GAVE ME ONE TOO! :-) She is so sweet! :-)

John Kuthe...