When I came home from the supermarket with bananas, my daughter said, "we must be rich, we have bananas".
It's felt like that this year, hasn't it, with bananas often $13-$15 a kilo since the cyclones last summer. Like most Australians, I suspect, we had gone many months without bananas prior to this recent splurge.
My brother, who moved to Sweden mid-year bought Chilean bananas at $1.95 per kilo and wrote on his Facebook page, "Finally, affordable bananas."
While I am overall opposed to the importation of fruit we Aussies can grow ourselves, I'm not clear why we protect the banana industry when we don't, for instance, protect the apple industry against cheaper imports.
Thankfully, prices are now dropping and should hopefully be normal in the next month or two - that is, until the next cyclone season.
5 comments:
Yes they got quite expensive, I have heard the prices are dropping in Southern States but here in wollies they are still $7.98 kg or you can get in oyur car and drive to the market and pay around $3-$4kg..
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around those prices! I pay $.39USD/pound. They're probably the cheapest fruit out there here in the U.S. Bananas are a no-no for the locavores, but my infant likes them and he's allergic to so much that we're buying them for now.
Hi Starr,
I can't imagine being able to buy bananas at $.39USD/pound. I can't remember seeing them below $2/kilo over here. Food in the US sounds really, really cheap.
Kate
I'm loving the $4.99/kg price I paid in Aldi last week. We've indulged in bananas this week for the first time since summer.
When we were in the US last year we had bananas from Mexico and Paraguay. Oh my goodness they were the best bananas I'd tasted since I left PNG over 25 years ago. SOOO good.
I questioned my SIL about the cost of living while we were over there. She said consumable items (food, petrol, clothing, toys etc) was cheap but things like health insurance and council/shire rates were ridiculously expensive and balanced out the cheapness of other things.
Yes, we are rich to LOL! Bananas are in the fruit bowl once again. Well until like you said the next cyclone.
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