Summer Prices!

[Irish]

Licker Shock!

Sticker shock at the pump isn't the only thing Americans are facing. This summer will bring "licker" shock at the ice cream stand. Ice cream makers cite sharply higher costs of milk, vanilla and cocoa. It'll mean a jump in prices for your favorite flavor, anywhere from six percent to 20 percent. For instance, a pint of Ben & Jerry's is going to cost 8 percent more. And a multipack of Klondike bars will cost about 10 cents more. Massachusetts-based Friendly's ice cream chain cut its half-gallon tub from 64 ounces to 56 ounces earlier this year, and it just increased its retail prices by five percent.

[Lilith]

Fuck gas prices, now I'm worried :slurp:

[Gilly]

I read that yesterday... The part I was shocked over ws that on average, a person only consumes 26 servings of ice cream a year.







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If that's the average, and I KNOW I eat at least 4 times that a year, how many people out there aren't partaking in the BLISS?

[Irish]

Lilith---My wife is a BIG country music fan.One of the country music
radio stations,that she listens to is WOKQ.She signed up,with the
station,for a daily "newsletter"that is sent to our web address
every weekday.I don't know,the validity,of that,but I cut & pasted
it from todays e-mail! Irish

[Gilly]

Irish- it was posted on Yahoo yesterday afternoon in a news post.

[Gilly]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_he_me/fit_licker_shock_8

[wyndhy]

<------runs to the store to hoard all the good humor bars, beating other people off with a bat. MINE!

[Irish]

26 servings?--I eat that much a yr. & I am diabetic & am not supposed to!
Proprietors will use ANY excuse to raise prices.There is an Ice Cream vendor(outside) here,that is only open in the summertime.
My wife & I go there,on summer nights,to get an Ice Cream,but
mainly to watch the wide variety of people.It is a drive-in type of
place.We never,park in the front row,because you can't see the
people,as good!A few yrs.ago,they paved the parking lot & put
out new picnic tables & table umbrellas.I told my wife-"Now they
have an excuse to raise the prices!"Sure enough,the next week,
the prices went up,alot!Now,they will go up again.We live on a
fairly close budget.The last rate increase,our trips,halved.I wonder what will happen this time.It will probably be like the "old"
A & Ws.I would get a "baby"root beer($.50)& nurse it all night.
Irish

[Gilly]

We have 1 old fashioned ice cream stand here in town, the kind where you walk up to the window, and order, with picnic tables in front. It can be 55, windy, and drizzling, and that place will have 25 people waiting in line.

We need more good old fashioned places like that.

[Irish]

Gilly---That's the way it is here.We don't go on weekends,because even people,from other States,frequent it so much. Irish

[naughtyangel]

All we have around here are the old fashioned ice cream stands. So far the prices haven't gone up, but our gas just shot up to 98 cents per litre!

[musketeer]

I wish fuel was a cheap as that here in the UK - its just gone up to 81.9pence a litre.

[Irish]

musketeer---Here they blame everything on Bush.In your case,it
must be Blairs fault! Irish

[WildIrish]

I feel very comfortable with that figure of 26 servings a year. It's the size of my servings that leave me a bit uncomfortable. ha ha

[thedog]

So ... here in Hew Hampshire, the price for a gallon of milk now exceeds the price for a gallon of gas. Huh?

[flutelady]

The aforementioned things are totally annoying, but tolerable as long as the price of wine doesn't go up too!! :eek:

[Irish]

thedog---To tell you the truth as far as I'm concerned,the price of
almost eveything is too high!I got sick of worring about it.It doesn't do any good.If I need it,I buy it.All you're going to do with your money,is leave it to your kids,anyway! Irish

[LixyChick]

But why? Why is the cost of milk going up so much? Why, why, why? Mad cow? Udder's under reconstruction? Cows go on strike? Why? No one ever says why...just does it!

[Irish]

Lixy---I got in trouble,in school,for awnsering why.Awnsering a question,a teacher said-"I don't know,why is the sky blue?"I raised my hand & proceeded to tell him.I explained,how a prism.
worked & explained why it made the sky appear blue.He called me,a wise ass & sent me to the office.Therefore,it's not always
smart,to ask,"Why?" Irish
P.S.Maybe,he was a prophet.He wasn't alone in calling me a "wise-ass!"

[Gilly]

Milk price has to do with the availability of cows- For example, here in MI, which is filled with dairy and meat cows, milk and meat are still pretty resonable. Go to Hawaii, however, and you could pay 2-3x for the same thing. Mostly, the inflation of costs deals directly with the prices they have to pay to import/export the product, the grain and upkeep for the cows, etc.

In this case, it's not just dairy, though. Tornado's in Madagascar virtually wiped out the vanilla crop, which is where a rather large chunk of the ice cream industry gets it from. That right there made the vanilla cost jump astronomically.

The gas prices, obviously, have risen. That means transport of the supplies and end product all cost more.

Cocoa on the Ivory Coast went up as well, because of the political unrest.

All of that means a jump in the over all price.

[gekkogecko]

Originally posted by Lilith
Fuck gas prices, now I'm worried

Fuck gas prices? Lilith, you have some weird sex habits.
But then, we knew that.

[Lilith]

If I'd just fuck OPEC I could probably work out a deal;)

[lakritze]

Time to break out the old ice cream maker. Maybe go into business.Homemade Ice cream shipped anywhere in the Kingdom of Pixies.Oh shoot,I can only make a quart at a time. Something tells me that would hardly be enough in most cases.HHHMMMMMMM.....If Pixie People were n the ice cream making business, what would we name the flavours?

[Lilith]

Lakritze Lava Light...has a cinnamon center

[lakritze]

I was thinking of Mounds of Venus Vanilla. Lost Cherry Swirl.Lucious Lavendar,Kona Kumm Koffee,Orgasm by Chocolate,Are You Glad To See Me Banana, Kumquat Sorbet.

[cbass1976]

lol at lilith

[Gilly]

Fruit Punch Gilly Bean flavor? ;)

[Irish]

Smooth Irish Cream! Irish

[having_fun]

It's a conspiracy... Our local governments have enacted zoning laws that won't let us keep a cow in the back yard. We should all protest, and buy a cow... Or all women should be given drugs to make them start lactating, they could fill up a quart every night before bed, ha ha.

If a man's wife or S.O. can't produce, he should be able to employ the services of a Milk Maid.

[Lilith]

I can have a cow in my yard...but seriously who wants cow shit in their carpet????

And that lactating drug....it's called sperm :sperm: :D:D:p

I'll buy ice cream even if it's $458309480398 a gallon.

[Irish]

Lilith---There is a solution to everything!In your case,it would be to do away with the carpet! Irish

[thedog]

Well Lil ... you buy a cow, get free milk, make butter, make your own ice cream, have your yard mowed automatically, and you harness the methane from the cow shit and produce your own electricity.

In no time at all you'd have your own mini economy, maybe even set up a small country, and then apply for foreign aid.

[Irish]

Not only,has a solution,been provided,but thedog has showed ways to help the economy.It's called American inginuity! Irish