When did DnD get so expensive?

RPGPundit · July 20, 2017, 05:23:11 AM

Quote from: Opaopajr;976140An so much fucking better... Gawd, I miss those luxuriant smells from the grocery aisles!

Yeah. When I visit north america I'm pretty stunned at how comparatively tasteless certain fruits and vegetables are.

To say nothing of the meat.

DavetheLost · July 20, 2017, 09:05:36 AM

I live in a rural area so we get a lot of our food from local small farmers. I can taste the difference!

Koltar · July 20, 2017, 09:35:51 AM

Quote from: Biscuitician;973901what a bizarre set of responses

How badly do you want it?

Does it have to be 'very soon' or can it wait about a month?
Send me a private message....

- Ed C.

Tod13 · July 20, 2017, 11:10:35 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;976793Yeah. When I visit north america I'm pretty stunned at how comparatively tasteless certain fruits and vegetables are.

To say nothing of the meat.

Meat is getting better if you care and know what to buy. We mostly eat game meat that my wife and I shoot. When that runs out, we go for the grass-fed beef and buffalo. It costs more, but unless I'm making a curry (which is going to cover the taste anyway) we prefer the better tasting beef.

For tomatoes, there is a brand sold on-the-vine that tastes pretty good. Not quite as good as nice heirloom tomatoes, but the stores actually carry them.

The good stuff is definitely out there, I just refuse to go to 2-3 different stores for groceries to get the really good stuff.

Dumarest · July 20, 2017, 11:16:24 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;976137But that comes with the territory of living in South America, where food is relatively cheap.

And plentiful, like in Venezuela!

Krimson · July 20, 2017, 01:10:49 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;976793Yeah. When I visit north america I'm pretty stunned at how comparatively tasteless certain fruits and vegetables are.

To say nothing of the meat.

Alberta beef tastes fine. I can't comment much on produce since I can't eat most plant based foods.

Willie the Duck · July 20, 2017, 02:27:29 PM

Quote from: Tod13;976848Meat is getting better if you care and know what to buy. We mostly eat game meat that my wife and I shoot. When that runs out, we go for the grass-fed beef and buffalo. It costs more, but unless I'm making a curry (which is going to cover the taste anyway) we prefer the better tasting beef.

For tomatoes, there is a brand sold on-the-vine that tastes pretty good. Not quite as good as nice heirloom tomatoes, but the stores actually carry them.

The good stuff is definitely out there, I just refuse to go to 2-3 different stores for groceries to get the really good stuff.

Corporate agriculture is a fact of modern life. Nothing specific about north America there. Tomatoes are a great example. The U.S. alone is 56 times the size of Pundy's Uruguay or 10.6 times the size of Venezuela, which Dumarest mentioned. If they had to ship tomatoes as far as they do in the US, they'd probably also use the stable-but-bland method of undergrowing the tomatoes, then ripening them on-location with ethylene gas.

In other words, strongly agree. Good food can be found anywhere. Just have to look for it because otherwise people will do what is economical, which is not the same as tasty.

Tod13 · July 20, 2017, 02:33:38 PM

Quote from: Willie the Duck;976895Corporate agriculture is a fact of modern life. Nothing specific about north America there. Tomatoes are a great example. The U.S. alone is 56 times the size of Pundy's Uruguay or 10.6 times the size of Venezuela, which Dumarest mentioned. If they had to ship tomatoes as far as they do in the US, they'd probably also use the stable-but-bland method of undergrowing the tomatoes, then ripening them on-location with ethylene gas.

In other words, strongly agree. Good food can be found anywhere. Just have to look for it because otherwise people will do what is economical, which is not the same as tasty.

I agree with you. It gets even more fun when you start looking at how many people would starve if we didn't have corporate agriculture and some sort of engineered crops.

It helps finding good food that places like Kroger (aka Fred Meyer) are supplying "local" foods. (Which is funny, because even "local" Texas means 4x the size of Uruguay.)

Steven Mitchell · July 20, 2017, 02:35:00 PM

If you really want tasty, grow it yourself, or help someone that does. All else pales in comparison.

Gronan of Simmerya · July 20, 2017, 04:10:11 PM

Quote from: Tod13;976848I just refuse to go to 2-3 different stores for groceries to get the really good stuff.

And there you have it. If the customer insisted on food that actually tasted good, they'd get it.

Charon's Little Helper · July 20, 2017, 05:41:48 PM

Quote from: Tod13;976898
I agree with you. It gets even more fun when you start looking at how many people would starve if we didn't have corporate agriculture and some sort of engineered crops.

It helps finding good food that places like Kroger (aka Fred Meyer) are supplying "local" foods. (Which is funny, because even "local" Texas means 4x the size of Uruguay.)

Yeah - when people start talking about banning GMOs I ask them to pick which 3 billion people starve to death.

And frankly - GMOs taste fine and humans have been altering crops for nearly as long as they've been growing them. We're just better at it now. It's the shipping from a distance and long-term storage which reduces the taste.

As to higher cost - that's mostly a big city and east/west coast thing. Even living in a substantial city in the Midwest I can't think of many places which would charge $12 for a burger - and it'd likely be half a pound, include extras (mushrooms etc.) and a side.

Dumarest · July 20, 2017, 06:22:12 PM

I'm not even going to bother addressing an idiotic comment wherein someone thinks he can rate the quality of food available over a continent covering 9,540,000 square miles based on his limited intake and access. Oh wait, I just bothered. :rolleyes:

Opaopajr · July 20, 2017, 09:41:38 PM

No, the food's even better than that!

Oh gawds, the memory of the fragrant fruits is returning! Whatever shall I do? :eek:

Justin Alexander · July 21, 2017, 02:21:32 AM

The person running this website is a racist who publicly advocates genocidal practices.

I am deleting my content.

I recommend you do the same.

DavetheLost · July 21, 2017, 07:28:25 AM

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;976959Yeah - when people start talking about banning GMOs I ask them to pick which 3 billion people starve to death.

Not to mention the insulin which keeps many diabetics alive is the product of a GMO. So if you want to ban GMOs are you willing to personally pull the trigger on the diabetics?