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$10.99/kilo for bananas is highway robbery! but then again I'm not surprised.... I remember Oz to be extremely expensive the last time I visited and that was almost 8 years or so ago now.
$12 kg at my local IGA, and thats in QLD.
No imports + very high basic wage+ cyclone = High prices.
Had to laught today at the vacaction section of the paper. A week in thailand for $1000 including flights, 4 nights in Rainbow beach (small town north of noosa) $1500, and a big atricle about how Airlie Beach has become airlie Bleak, because of all the vacant shops in the town.
You dont have to be a rocket scientist to put two and two together do you.
I cooked some bananas on an outdoor BBQ with a friend last weekend.
Split two in half, fried em up and added some nice finishing touches.
My friend was impressed, and I was quite content to bring back fond cooking memories from Canada.
I don't think the banana prices are murder,
if you only eat them as an occaisional treat.
At $10.99/kg, for three large bananas it was like $4-something.
Even a can of cheap beer is more expensive than that here.
Also cheaper than most Australian seafood.
I think it is mostly shock that a plain piece of fruit should fetch such a high price.
As was my experience with other Aussie produce,
the bananas I had were some of the best I've ever eaten from a grocery store.
Only better banana I've had was fresh bananas picked that morning from my B&B in NewOrleans.
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We Aussies make a HUGE deal over a few dollars. It's as if bananas are like petrol, or something. Seriously, how many bananas do you monkeys eat a week? I like bananas myself, they're convenient, nutritious, filling and taste fairly good (or at least familiar) but even at $10 a kilo it's not like you're spending a fortune on bananas or breaking the bank. I've hardly eaten bananas recently because mum doesn't buy them as much but I can wait until the banana growing areas up north recover. I can, believe it or not, get by without 'em, lol.
I normally save on bananas by buying banana chips.
$3 for 400 gram package from Coles.
Dried, sliced, cooked in coconut oil and a bit of honey or sugar.
Very tasty and much cheaper than $10.99/kg since there's no banana peel in the bag.
Either they are using imported bananas, or someone in Coles isn't very bright.
You're right "wanneroo",
one can only wonder how they manage to grow these bananas ALL the way down in South America, ship them ALL the way up to ALL over the States plus to me here in Canada and STILL manage to only charge $0.59 per pound (or $1.29 for the metrically inclined). Yet in Aus you can't buy them 50km from where they grow them for less than $12kg according to "danielsa" in Queensland.
Anyone hear the words "rip-off"????
And referring back to the OP's question - that's certainly something "unique" about Australia LOL.
You're right "wanneroo",
one can only wonder how they manage to grow these bananas ALL the way down in South America, ship them ALL the way up to ALL over the States plus to me here in Canada and STILL manage to only charge $0.59 per pound (or $1.29 for the metrically inclined). Yet in Aus you can't buy them 50km from where they growthem for less than $12kg according to "danielsa" in Queensland.
Anyone hear the words "rip-off"????
And referring back to the OP's question - that's certainly something "unique" about Australia LOL.
I live about 1500 km from where they grow acutally, its a long way from Brisbane to Tully and its hard to get them because the cyclone wiped out virtually the entire crop this year.
Anyway i agree with Trimac, we are the biggest bunch of whingers on earth, thats pretty unique to Australia.
The biggest rip of in Australia, is the high salaries we pay our unskilled labourers, where else in the world can a person working 40hrs a week flipping hamburgers at maccas earn a salary of around $34,000 US p/a plus a 9% a complusory pension contribution, and pay income tax at a rate of less than 9 cents in the dollar on that income. Thats pretty unique to Australia to
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To me it seems like a never ending cycle...higher salaries cause higher prices which in turn demand higher salaries... which I guess is good for Aussies internationally.. because it makes most places abroad incredibly cheap.
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I bought three bananas!
