I've found that more expensive grocers tend to play the game where they put cheap produce right up front in the store to get people in, so they hopefully by more expensive goods elsewhere in the store. Walmart isn't really that cheap when it comes to produce anymore. I love going to the Farmer's Markets because they undercut Walmart by 50%, by accident.

Frankly, it should really tell you how fucked up the economic incentives are for our economy and farmers, especially with regulations and subsidies, when Walmart sells produce from different continents to put them in front of you for (let's say) $5 an item; and the Farmer who literally grows that shit on the side of his house and walks it into his store front that's 20 feet away charges $2 for it.

Two things are happening, the government is bankrupting us to make that $5 item at Walmart be made at the largest scale possible using slave labor, and is then also bankrupting the farmer for making his item as expensive as possible because the transportation cost of the Walmart item should add way more cost than that when the farmer has no cost in transportation.

If we removed government intervention, I'd bet you the Walmart item would cost $500, and the Farmer's Item would cost 10 cents.

That is a good question, he has a lot of lower class tastes (like his affinity for McDonalds, and professional wrestling). Unfortunately, I don't have an answer. My only guess is that he must have liked "poor people food" as an acquired taste growing up, rather than eating caviar.

I wonder if it has something to do with the culture of New York City that always kind of celebrated the "working class" nature of the city where even Wall Street Bankers would still go to food stands and food trucks to get lunch.

Tomatoes are from South America, so by definition, they couldn't have gotten tomatoes in food until the Golden Age of Sail.

Don't ever let them claim that Pizza is Italian. It's American Italian food.

Kinda like how General Tsao's Chicken is also American Chinese food. People in China have no idea what the fuck that even is.

For the love of God, please share what that show was because that sounds hilarious.

Isn't it because blacks have some sort of deficiency and that's why they crave starch? Like any of the numerous other genetic differences between the races. Lactose intolerance, south-east Asians getting drunk quicker because they're missing an enzyme, native Americans being predisposed to alcoholism etc.