Happy Independence Day! 250th

[D-train]

Joey Chestnut and American legend. I don't believe what I just saw. That MFer just ate 60+ hot dogs in 10 minutes.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

That's a hotdog-every-10-seconds-pace. I'm not sure i could eat one hotdog in 10 seconds.

I wonder if the buns take up more space in their stomachs than the hotdogs.

[D-train]

I have noticed no evidence of the buns so we should prob take this up on the dumb fuck JFK conspiracy thread on the Politics forum. I can't fucking wait!

[Sibelius Hindemith]

I have noticed no evidence of the buns so we should prob take this up on the dumb fuck JFK conspiracy thread on the Politics forum. I can't fucking wait!

So they don't eat the buns anymore? I wouldn't know since I stopped watching these festivals of gluttony years ago. They did back in the early 2000s though as I recall.

[mostonmike]

I will re-quote my post from last year.....

Have a great day you guys. I will celebrate by having an extra cup of Liber-tea for you all.

[AT Fresno]

Happy 4th

you also, Jay!

[AT Fresno]

I will re-quote my post from last year.....

Have a great day you guys. I will celebrate by having an extra cup of Liber-tea for you all.

Have a biscuit with your "~~Liber-tea"!!

[DanielVogelbach]

Independence from Great Britain, yet under colonial rule there was 1,000x amount of freedom versus living in the USSA today with Federal Reserve, passports, driver's license, K-12, taxation on everything. I'm ready for a new independence lol. At least the Mariners won.

[mostonmike]

Independence from Great Britain, yet under colonial rule there was 1,000x amount of freedom versus living in the USSA today with Federal Reserve, passports, driver's license, K-12, taxation on everything. I'm ready for a new independence lol. At least the Mariners won.

Overall, UK grocery prices are roughly 33.6% lower than in the US. You’re looking at around $2.50 for a dozen eggs and $1.50 for a loaf of bread over here—although to be fair, our petrol is a brutal $8 per gallon, so we pay for it at the pump instead.

But on the staples, I've always thought the British public collectively controls the market. We became a country fiercely price-sensitive around basic groceries as far back as the 1980s. If a single UK supermarket stepped out of line and tried to sneak an extra 10p onto a loaf of Warburtons bread, that decision alone would probably alienate their customer base and ruin their business. Supermarkets have therefore competed on keeping prices of those staples low to the benefit of all of us.

We also got Aldi and Lidl coming in and smashing the big Supermarkets. We don't hate Germany when it comes to these two genius companies.

That’s the real 'checks and balances' system. You can worry about the Federal Reserve all you want, but true freedom is a population that will collectively burn a supermarket chain to the ground if they mess with the price of bread or eggs.

[Peepaw]

Independence from Great Britain, yet under colonial rule there was 1,000x amount of freedom versus living in the USSA today with Federal Reserve, passports, driver's license, K-12, taxation on everything. I'm ready for a new independence lol. At least the Mariners won.

Overall, UK grocery prices are roughly 33.6% lower than in the US. You’re looking at around $2.50 for a dozen eggs and $1.50 for a loaf of bread over here—although to be fair, our petrol is a brutal $8 per gallon, so we pay for it at the pump instead.

But on the staples, I've always thought the British public collectively controls the market. We became a country fiercely price-sensitive around basic groceries as far back as the 1980s. If a single UK supermarket stepped out of line and tried to sneak an extra 10p onto a loaf of Warburtons bread, that decision alone would probably alienate their customer base and ruin their business. Supermarkets have therefore competed on keeping prices of those staples low to the benefit of all of us.

We also got Aldi and Lidl coming in and smashing the big Supermarkets. We don't hate Germany when it comes to these two genius companies.

That’s the real 'checks and balances' system. You can worry about the Federal Reserve all you want, but true freedom is a population that will collectively burn a supermarket chain to the ground if they mess with the price of bread or eggs.

The public should, can, but mostly refuses to influence the price of commodities such as produce. We all want avocadoes, lemons, bananas, etc. But distribution is manipulated by growers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, to where consumers have less influence in deference to scarcity, preferring to eat well and pay more. And scarcity/availability can be controlled in shipping such that bananas are plentiful in Paris, but scarce in Seattle.