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Wow on the prices!
Some seemed a tiny bit higher than NJ but others were amazing to me.
I'm never going to look at a box of honey nut cheerios the same way again.
Wow on the prices!
Some seemed a tiny bit higher than NJ but others were amazing to me.
I'm never going to look at a box of honey nut cheerios the same way again.
The cheerios were what impressed us the most too. We're buying them in Anchorage when they're on sale for about $2.50.
I really liked living in Barrow and paying those prices. I must say though from your pics the AC Store is doing a good job for keeping it stocked. I remember 6 of us in the store one day all eyeing the same box of Cherrios. I wasn't quite quick enough. Ran as fast as I could to the produce section and snatched up the only two bananas that were left.
Floyd, Thanks for the update on the facilities. Nice to have a little historical background. There's no doubt my eating habits would need to change. The Cheerios comment was rhetoric, I know they're not a staple. I was impressed with the community involvement when it comes to the distribution of whale meat. Barrow really takes care of its own. In Anchorage, you will only find this in small pockets throughout the city, not the entire community like Barrow.
However, the idea that Cherrios are a staple in Barrow is a bit funny. It might be for people like Stiffnecked, who couldn't learn how to make a go of it here. But in fact that is why AC stocks items like that, just for transients.
Lets work out some numbers for a "staple". There are something under 4000 people here in Barrow, and supposedly 60 percent of them are Inupiat. So lets assume (and this is probably a little high) that there are 2400 people here who eat whale meat. And they catch maybe 15 whales each year, averaging about 40 feet long and weighing about 80,000 pounds each. If only 50 percent of that weight is consumed as food... we have 250 pounds of meat per person each year, or almost 0.7 pound per day per person.
This math is off. I know a whole lot of whale meat is brought out of Barrow to relatives and friends. Same with Caribou. I also like how only Inupiats eat whale in this calculation as well.
Looking at these calculations as a Business Analyst, it doesn't hold water.
This math is off. I know a whole lot of whale meat is brought out of Barrow to relatives and friends. Same with Caribou. I also like how only Inupiats eat whale in this calculation as well.
Looking at these calculations as a Business Analyst, it doesn't hold water.
Actually, it's pretty accurate.
Relatively no caribou is shipped out of Barrow. And the amount of whale meat that is shipped is minuscule compared to what is eaten locally. The fact that some is shipped out doesn't contradict the point that a huge amount of food is shared by Barrow people, which is the point to begin with.
I did not include only the Inupiat population. I used the 60% (an almost certainly too high number for the actual Inupiat population here) intentionally, because while in itself that sounds inaccurate, it isn't. The assumption is that just about as many non-Inupiat people in Barrow eat whale meat as there are Inupiat people who don't (a small percentage in both cases).
If you add up the inaccuracies and assumptions, there is probably more whale meat than I used in the estimation (both more whales and larger whales, and plus the guess at 50% edible is probably low) , and there are probably fewer people eating it with that amount of regularity. Which means the 0.7 pounds per day per person is probably a little low (it is almost certainly closer to 1 pound).
Pretty conservative figures. The point stands as exceedingly valid.
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