Author: Seth HammondSeth Hammond Date: Jan 4, 2007 14:12
"nick" wrote in message
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> "Seth Hammond" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> With cheap curry dribbling from his flabby chin, "Junkman Nick"
>>> obsessed over us again:
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>>>> Why does a basket of food items cost a third more in America?
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>>> What engles call food, Americans call offal...
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>> I pay about $4.50 for two loaves of good whole wheat bread at Sam's Club.
>> Each weighs 1 1/2 lbs. That means I pay .09 per ounce. What do you
>> suppose the engles pay?
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> I've just come back from Simsbury's, as it happens, and we brought a loaf
> of bread, 92p for the top spec instore baked large loaf.
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> So it looks like you pay just over $1 more than me for bread. ...
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