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Default Barilla Ready Pasta - $6.72/lb

On 11/4/2018 5:51 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
> wrote:
>>> 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".Â* 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.Â* 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.Â* Which comes out to $6.72/lb.Â* Normal
>>>>> price for a pound of Barilla dried pasta is $1.25.Â* So that's a 550%
>>>>> increase in price.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sheesh.Â* 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.Â* Usually I'd just bring it from
>>>> home
>>>> as leftovers.

>>
>> I have never and would never eat mystery meat meat-a-balles.
>> Takes no effort at all to grind meat and make meat-a-balles.
>> I'd not eat those things if they gave them to me for free.
>>

>
> Popeye, yoose could use them for butt plugs.
>
> All yoose *** friends couldÂ* come over and felch them out. Yoose'd like
> dat.
>
>

What sauce works best?