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martin
The celery price is amazing!BishopThursday 16th of April 2009 1:46 am
BishopThursday 16th of April 2009 1:46 am
Green Lion
The war on single people continues! When will the single people rise up and fight this terrible injustice? If they do, they will probably just pair up and start families. Another revolution stimied.VoltronThursday 16th of April 2009 2:19 am
VoltronThursday 16th of April 2009 2:19 am
Dave
Cinnamon cream dip? Sign me up!BumblebeeThursday 16th of April 2009 3:13 am
BumblebeeThursday 16th of April 2009 3:13 am
Glen
If you can\'t be bothered to wash and cut up a bunch of celery then you deserve to pay that kind of money. Nuttiness!R2D2Thursday 16th of April 2009 3:20 am
R2D2Thursday 16th of April 2009 3:20 am
Prof. Awesome
What the hell are cups?Iron GiantThursday 16th of April 2009 3:36 am
Iron GiantThursday 16th of April 2009 3:36 am
Squiddly Diddly
A fool and their money is soon parted. PrisThursday 16th of April 2009 4:36 am
PrisThursday 16th of April 2009 4:36 am
Brandon
Either yogurt cups are huge in California or you have tiny hands. Where I\'m from, yogurt containers are half that size.Tom ServoThursday 16th of April 2009 4:41 am
Tom ServoThursday 16th of April 2009 4:41 am
rodney
I stay away from that stuff.MetropolisThursday 16th of April 2009 5:48 am
MetropolisThursday 16th of April 2009 5:48 am
Rexburg
Gimme. I love that shit. Just gimme!GortThursday 16th of April 2009 5:51 am
GortThursday 16th of April 2009 5:51 am
Katie
$4.99 for celery? makes sense. everyone knows the starting wage for celery cutters and packers is $25/hr plus benefits.BenderThursday 16th of April 2009 5:54 am
BenderThursday 16th of April 2009 5:54 am
This kind of stuff is for people that are throwing a party and then realize they forgot to make some sort of fruit/vegetable type of appetizer dish.CylonThursday 16th of April 2009 5:56 am
CylonThursday 16th of April 2009 5:56 am
Matt
You should compare how much similar standard packages cost. Ex: How much do canned peaches in light syrup cost?Ed 209Thursday 16th of April 2009 6:24 am
Ed 209Thursday 16th of April 2009 6:24 am
i like the fruit naturalsK9Thursday 16th of April 2009 6:50 am
K9Thursday 16th of April 2009 6:50 am
Rob S.
I hate wasting my time at restaurants and use my company paid meal money to shop at Safeway. It blows my mind that a few prepared items can cost upwards of $25 as much or more than having restaurant food delivered to a comfortable table including tip & tax.R2D2Thursday 16th of April 2009 7:04 am
R2D2Thursday 16th of April 2009 7:04 am
Beardo
I like turtlesGigilo JoeThursday 16th of April 2009 7:04 am
Gigilo JoeThursday 16th of April 2009 7:04 am
Tami
While I\'ve not purchased any of the convenience items you mention (seriously, how hard is it to rinse and chop celery?)I WILL admit to being totally sold on pre-packaged salad greens.TerminatorThursday 16th of April 2009 7:10 am
TerminatorThursday 16th of April 2009 7:10 am
CEC
With convenience comes a price, I suppose. Wow, though. 16 bucks to core and slice $5 worth of apples and toss in some (surely) sugar-oil \"cream dip\". I suppose that Safeway gets enough of a return on the packaging, so there must be plenty of folks who can\'t spare 15 minutes.Crow T. RobotThursday 16th of April 2009 7:16 am
Crow T. RobotThursday 16th of April 2009 7:16 am
Gman
I can\'t imagine paying $15 for what appears to be 4-5 apples.Mr. RobotoThursday 16th of April 2009 7:29 am
Mr. RobotoThursday 16th of April 2009 7:29 am
Dustin
I\'m wicked awesome and named after a vitamin!!!!B9Thursday 16th of April 2009 7:34 am
B9Thursday 16th of April 2009 7:34 am
Larken
Looks like perfect snacks to take on your next tea bagging protest. I wonder if the apples where also injected with some corn syrup before being wedged? It very important to get your 500+ grams of high fructose corn syrup in your daily diet.DalekThursday 16th of April 2009 7:56 am
DalekThursday 16th of April 2009 7:56 am
gruntled
Ha ha! Other people spend money on things I would not spend money on, therefore they are dumb! Chopping my own fruits and vegetables is praise worthy! LOL OMG WTF!RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 8:25 am
RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 8:25 am
Hovercraft
HovercraftEd 209Thursday 16th of April 2009 8:29 am
Ed 209Thursday 16th of April 2009 8:29 am
Patrick
How much is inside episode?BumblebeeThursday 16th of April 2009 9:15 am
BumblebeeThursday 16th of April 2009 9:15 am
Slappo
Peach chunks in Midori with sweet and sour mix is good stuff!GortThursday 16th of April 2009 9:16 am
GortThursday 16th of April 2009 9:16 am
Stefan Jones
Now, now. In these troubled economic times there are lots people who can\'t afford new-fangled luxuries like cutting boards and knives. These ludicrously overpriced and overpackaged produce items are a real blessing for these folks. Shame on you!Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 9:16 am
Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 9:16 am
kii
The best part is that you can turn right around and see the whole produce due to Safeway\'s layout. Tom ServoThursday 16th of April 2009 9:19 am
Tom ServoThursday 16th of April 2009 9:19 am
Bender
This is bullcrap!BenderThursday 16th of April 2009 9:27 am
BenderThursday 16th of April 2009 9:27 am
Jordan
You could walk over to the canned foods aisle and buy a 14oz can of peaches for cheaper. They even put pull-tabs on them now so you can pack one for lunch.Johnny 5Thursday 16th of April 2009 9:35 am
Johnny 5Thursday 16th of April 2009 9:35 am
Guslinging glatt
If I\'m on a trip, and have no access to food preparation facilities, this sort of thing is ideal.The GunslingerThursday 16th of April 2009 9:43 am
The GunslingerThursday 16th of April 2009 9:43 am
Derrik Spins
Yeah. One time I got stuck with three apples and no place or equipment to prepare it. I was so fucked.TerminatorThursday 16th of April 2009 9:47 am
TerminatorThursday 16th of April 2009 9:47 am
tsquared
war on single people? more like war on lazy people...or war on stupid people...Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 9:55 am
Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 9:55 am
Avogadro\'s Lucky Number
Celery is something that -should- come in single serving containers. How often do you need more than one stalk? But this works out to costing about 50x the price of the real stuff. Does Safeway sell anything that\'s actually food anymore? Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 9:57 am
Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 9:57 am
Anonymous
The celery and apples should be refrigerated to keep longer.Johnny 5Thursday 16th of April 2009 10:00 am
Johnny 5Thursday 16th of April 2009 10:00 am
Jim
Is it that hard to chop celery into thirds? (Are you still doing the Safeway card thing?)RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 10:06 am
RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 10:06 am
safeway manager
To be fair, those prepackaged readypack things don\'t actually come from safeway, they are shipped to us and we are required to sell them. You\'ll notice the same brands, for the same price, at all other grocery stores. You pay an extra 5 dollars for the convenience of having everything cleaned and prepared for you. I do, however, think the 15.99 price for the apples is excessive... BenderThursday 16th of April 2009 10:32 am
BenderThursday 16th of April 2009 10:32 am
Gort
I\'ve had that celery / carrot stuff. It\'s pretty awful. Well, what you\'d expect celery and carrots soaking in the same water for a couple of days.GortThursday 16th of April 2009 10:38 am
GortThursday 16th of April 2009 10:38 am
Wall-E
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHWall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 10:53 am
Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 10:53 am
Iphone
I\'m an IPHONE!RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 11:03 am
RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 11:03 am
Merkley???
I was fixing a blind man\'s boat when a big wad of goop came rolling across the deck. \"Whut thuh\" I said as I motioned to a seagull. I thought it must be old varnish or maybe even a jellyfish. I sounded the alarms: \"Uh, doods, moving goop over here...\" Nobody gave a shit. Deck goop must be common to boaters. I wouldn\'t know, I don\'t know anything about boats. I was only helping cuz the guy was blind so how would he know if I did a shitty job?VICIThursday 16th of April 2009 11:03 am
VICIThursday 16th of April 2009 11:03 am
Bleep Bleep Bloop Bleep Beep Bloop Beep Beeeeoop! R2D2Thursday 16th of April 2009 11:46 am
R2D2Thursday 16th of April 2009 11:46 am
Crow
Just wait until you\'ve promised to bring snacks to your kids crap holiday party and don\'t remember until you pull into the parking lot. All of a sudden $15 seems incredibly reasonable.Crow T. RobotThursday 16th of April 2009 12:44 pm
Crow T. RobotThursday 16th of April 2009 12:44 pm
Boo
So what the heck preservative did they spray on the apples to keep them from turning brown? Ewwwwwwwwww.Teddy RuxpinThursday 16th of April 2009 1:27 pm
Teddy RuxpinThursday 16th of April 2009 1:27 pm
Pris
Toyota so wanted to steal my name, but they added a \"u\" to keep me from suing them. Jerks.PrisThursday 16th of April 2009 1:29 pm
PrisThursday 16th of April 2009 1:29 pm
Wendilou
Say ORGANIC apples are $2.29/lb, and say the chemical (I mean cinnamon cream)sauce is $2.00 for that little container, that would only be a total of $8.30. It takes all of one minute to cut up an apple. Is ONE MINUTE of your time really worth $7.69? That would be $461.40/hr. That\'s 70 times more than minimum wage (~ $0.11/minute.) If you work 40 hrs a week, 52 weeks a year, at $7.69/minute,then your yearly salary is $959,712.00. So if that\'s the case, then no, the apples are not a rip-off.C3POThursday 16th of April 2009 1:40 pm
C3POThursday 16th of April 2009 1:40 pm
Jonnny
For apples? Is there gold in that thar sauce??RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 1:42 pm
RoombaThursday 16th of April 2009 1:42 pm
Me
Americans sure know how to make money...Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 1:52 pm
Wall-EThursday 16th of April 2009 1:52 pm
Oracle
People pay it, nobody every went bankrupt by underestimating the intelligence of the American consumer.VICIThursday 16th of April 2009 2:25 pm
VICIThursday 16th of April 2009 2:25 pm
e
um, whoa. But you live in California. Don\'t you pay for air out there? Dirt? Dust?Teddy RuxpinThursday 16th of April 2009 2:41 pm
Teddy RuxpinThursday 16th of April 2009 2:41 pm
steveo
I\'m going to cut a watermelon in half and sell it for $50BumblebeeThursday 16th of April 2009 3:10 pm
BumblebeeThursday 16th of April 2009 3:10 pm
Mike Orange
I\'m going to sell two olives on a toothpick for $2.25, call it a Martini Lunch.DalekThursday 16th of April 2009 3:25 pm
DalekThursday 16th of April 2009 3:25 pm
Roland
This is why I NEVER shop at Safeway.The GunslingerThursday 16th of April 2009 3:34 pm
The GunslingerThursday 16th of April 2009 3:34 pm
Emme
This all said by the same people who go out and spend a buck or two on a 16oz. bottle of water!VoltronThursday 16th of April 2009 3:46 pm
VoltronThursday 16th of April 2009 3:46 pm
Carcaradon Meglodon
Holy batman, batman. GortThursday 16th of April 2009 4:26 pm
GortThursday 16th of April 2009 4:26 pm
knower
Yogurt in cups gives you tiny hands via false hormone masking!MaximillianThursday 16th of April 2009 5:08 pm
MaximillianThursday 16th of April 2009 5:08 pm
eeky
What if you were on a scavenger hunt listing \"pre-packaged snack tray of apple slices costing $13.50 or higher\"? You didn\'t take that into account (as usual). Iron GiantThursday 16th of April 2009 5:12 pm
Iron GiantThursday 16th of April 2009 5:12 pm
Mr, Roboto
Domo arigato, SafewayMr. RobotoThursday 16th of April 2009 5:43 pm
Mr. RobotoThursday 16th of April 2009 5:43 pm
Seriously, this is the worst article in Cockeyed.com history.Bicentennial ManThursday 16th of April 2009 7:03 pm
Bicentennial ManThursday 16th of April 2009 7:03 pm
Caitlyn
I\'ll occasionally grab such things for a road trip (though usually from Wawa) but it\'s otherwise unnecessary. I do, however, wish that celery was sold in smaller packages - there\'s only two of us and we don\'t like celery that much. Carrots, too, and herb bundles like parsley and cilantro, but celery is the worst offender. Asparagus and broccoli and the like are usually sold by the pound, thank goodness, so I just pull apart their pre-tied bundles and buy what I need.EveThursday 16th of April 2009 7:48 pm
EveThursday 16th of April 2009 7:48 pm
Tony
how else are \'they\' going to pay for the porkulus package?The GunslingerThursday 16th of April 2009 8:19 pm
The GunslingerThursday 16th of April 2009 8:19 pm
j-dog
I\'m not gonna lie...I am too lazy as a college student to slice up my own apples. However, celery does not need to be washed or cut up for me to consume :) As for peaches...they are too fuzzy in their natural form and too expensive and sugar saturated to consume as packaged. End quote. CylonThursday 16th of April 2009 8:40 pm
CylonThursday 16th of April 2009 8:40 pm
A pre-cut tray of apples a day keeps the prosperity away!Gigilo JaneThursday 16th of April 2009 8:41 pm
Gigilo JaneThursday 16th of April 2009 8:41 pm
butt
Jesus, that\'s crazy.Teddy RuxpinThursday 16th of April 2009 9:09 pm
Teddy RuxpinThursday 16th of April 2009 9:09 pm
Kathleen
What a waste of money and plastic. EveThursday 16th of April 2009 9:25 pm
EveThursday 16th of April 2009 9:25 pm
C3PO
I am fluent in over twelve methods of produce preparation and do not have to pay such inflated prices, master Rob.C3POThursday 16th of April 2009 10:28 pm
C3POThursday 16th of April 2009 10:28 pm
Those Fruit Naturals cups are a pain in the ass. They always splash when you open them.Bicentennial ManThursday 16th of April 2009 11:55 pm
Bicentennial ManThursday 16th of April 2009 11:55 pm
Me.
People will pay for convenience.Teddy RuxpinFriday 17th of April 2009 5:15 am
Teddy RuxpinFriday 17th of April 2009 5:15 am
mara
god forbid it was affordable to eat healthyWall-EFriday 17th of April 2009 6:18 am
Wall-EFriday 17th of April 2009 6:18 am
djurkwhad
Holy cow this website got stupid.AiboFriday 17th of April 2009 7:54 am
AiboFriday 17th of April 2009 7:54 am
mike
i love this robot theme your using.Mr. RobotoFriday 17th of April 2009 9:33 am
Mr. RobotoFriday 17th of April 2009 9:33 am
Robo-a-GoGo
Beep beep!T-XFriday 17th of April 2009 12:11 pm
T-XFriday 17th of April 2009 12:11 pm
Baltimore Pete
I am the modern man . . . and suddenly you\'re Andy Rooney! \"Did you ever notice the price of produce? When I was a lad a bushel of apples and a hand of celery were worth a plugged nickel!\" Mr. Robot comments because he cares. Styx with the hijinks, mon robotique frer.Mr. RobotoFriday 17th of April 2009 12:12 pm
Mr. RobotoFriday 17th of April 2009 12:12 pm
Mike
The 8 oz. cup of peach chunks in light syrup is actually peach chunks in high fructose corn syrup or \"corn with peaches\". HFCS is the heroin is sugars. It is in a lot of things you would not think it is in (even sausage). Comes from corn which is cheaper than sugar cane to grow which is why they use it. Corn is used to quickly fatten beef and it will do the same to you. All the other stuff is great and good for you but is for people who have no knives at home. How o the apples stay fresh???BenderFriday 17th of April 2009 12:16 pm
BenderFriday 17th of April 2009 12:16 pm
Britian also has this problem....often is £3 for a small mixed fruit salad which is worth about 50p in fruit. terrible.DalekFriday 17th of April 2009 12:53 pm
DalekFriday 17th of April 2009 12:53 pm
Adam
Just buy beer and Doritos. Tom ServoFriday 17th of April 2009 2:22 pm
Tom ServoFriday 17th of April 2009 2:22 pm
Shannon
what the frack?CylonFriday 17th of April 2009 5:29 pm
CylonFriday 17th of April 2009 5:29 pm
Garzan
There\'s not enough sauce with those applesOptimus PrimeSaturday 18th of April 2009 7:17 am
Optimus PrimeSaturday 18th of April 2009 7:17 am
The True Decepticon Leader
You fools! Energon is cheaper than any human sustenance!StarscreamSaturday 18th of April 2009 9:38 am
StarscreamSaturday 18th of April 2009 9:38 am
We\'ll Clean Up The Mess While You\'re Away
Its ridiculous that people will try to sell anything these days... You could have the same things for so much less! Celery is like, 2 bucks a bunch, peaches are 2 dollars a pound... Apples are 3-5 dollars a bag....You\'re paying so much more for packaging than the veggies/fruit itself, PLUS adding to the endless amounts of waste that plastic packaging provides!Wall-ESaturday 18th of April 2009 10:17 am
Wall-ESaturday 18th of April 2009 10:17 am
Qrak!Mr. RobotoSaturday 18th of April 2009 12:18 pm
Mr. RobotoSaturday 18th of April 2009 12:18 pm
Zod
You should be shocked at the laziness and complacency of the soccer moms who keep these companies in business by purchasing their sixteen dollar trays of four sliced apples, instead of taking the one minute to cut the one dollar\'s worth of apples themselves. This stuff wouldn\'t be around if dupes didn\'t buy it.BumblebeeSaturday 18th of April 2009 12:58 pm
BumblebeeSaturday 18th of April 2009 12:58 pm
Lord Summerisle
Frankly I\'d like to see these apples cut into bit size pieces.MaximillianSaturday 18th of April 2009 10:30 pm
MaximillianSaturday 18th of April 2009 10:30 pm
Bite size, bite size pieces. Dammit!MaximillianSaturday 18th of April 2009 10:31 pm
MaximillianSaturday 18th of April 2009 10:31 pm
Eilonwy
I teach first grade and about 1/4 of the parents buy these products for their kids\' snacks! There is also a little prepared bag of sliced apple. How difficult is it to slice an apple and stick it in your kid\'s lunchbox? Having a four year old I\'ve learned that the kids want the PACKAGING and are more likely to eat the product then if you prepare it at home. If you want to save $ and not be a consumer sucker you have to stand strong!Crow T. RobotSunday 19th of April 2009 6:12 am
Crow T. RobotSunday 19th of April 2009 6:12 am
Dino attacks
Are you feeling lazy Rob? Where\'s the rest of the article where you find the price of the whole unprepared apples, celery, and peaches? Then calculate the amount of time to prepare them and figure out how much the prepared food should cost...T-XSunday 19th of April 2009 10:37 am
T-XSunday 19th of April 2009 10:37 am
Stay away from the prepackaged lettuce.People NEVER wash that stuff. Have you ever driven by a lettuce field and wondered \"where are the porta-potties?\"MaximillianSunday 19th of April 2009 3:14 pm
MaximillianSunday 19th of April 2009 3:14 pm
Roger
1. Wendilou: You have your reasoning completely backwards. If you buy this product, you are actually paying someone else $461.40/hr to cut apples for you. Or to put it another way, unless your free time is worth more to you than $461.40/hr, you should slice the apples yourself. Perhaps it makes sense then to say, \"I promised to provide sliced apples, I have 5 minutes to come up with the goods, and my social reputation is worth the $461.40/hr it will now cost to provide them\", but it will be clearer to most people just how much they are getting ripped off (or wasting by not being better organised.) 2. This kind of segues into the question, \"why would anyone pay so much for apples except in a critical apple emergency?\" I suspect the main reason is that most people\'s math skills are so poor they can\'t really see how badly they are being ripped off, while charging everything to the credit card helps hide the cost among you $100 grocery bill (instead of having to hunt through your purse for another ten bucks and realisng you don\'t really need pre-sliced apples.) I live in Australia, and over here the government has recently intriduced a regulation that grocery stores have to display prices in price per unit weight, even if the item is sold in some other unit (which price is also displayed.) The idea is to simply make it easier for the innumerate to compare the prices on, say, a 375 gram soup can to a 425 gram soup can. I think it\'s an excellent idea, but it\'s still too new to see if will work to improve competition. 3. Adding heaps of extra sugar to everything is not good, and certainly increases obesity, dental caries and type II diabetes. However, the idea that fructose in HFCS is worse than other types of sugar is inherently unlikely and very poorly to not at all supported by the evidence. It\'s just the main cause of the problem in the US and Canada simply because it\'s the cheapest (in the US market, due to Federal subsidies) and hence the most common added sugar. Fact is, if those peaches had no added sugar, just their naturally fairly high sugar content that sugar would be: fructose! Or if you sweetened them with delicious, all natural honey, you would be adding a syrup whose sugar composition is almost identical to HFCS! The problem isn\'t the fructose, the problem is adding too damn much of it! 4. The company where I work now spends a lot of effort on packaging, and within a few days of meeting the packaging engineers, I\'ve gone from having contempt for companies that use lots of packaging, through to respect. The fact is, packaging design is a highly advanced science that seeks to minimise product damage (and hence, both environmental impact and consumer costs through passed-on lossage costs) with the absolute minimum possible amount of packaging material and energy (and hence, minimal cost and environmental impact.) People think the total mass of packaging is increasing, but in most areas, they are totally wrong: the mass is actually decreasing, but decreasing by using gossamer-thin advanced materials that *look* like they\'re more, but are so light your kitchen scales are probably unable to detect them. In some areas, it is necessary to use heavier materials, but increasingly these are recycled(with environmental costs of recycling that are *far* lower than glass or metal containers, and lower even than cellulosics like paper or cardboard.) The ideal of course would be to recycle all polymers, but at present this is a big challenge: when a package weighs less than a tenth of gram, you can\'t afford to spend more than fractions of a milli-cent processing it. In some areas -- particularly fresh foods -- packaging mass has increased from traditional levels, but only because the savings have been abolutely huge, and were worth it. The fresh produce market, if monitored all the way from the farm gate to the kitchen waste bin, traditionally had wastage rates of up to 30%, which can be reduced to below 5% by improved packaging. If you consider that 30% multiplied across all food consumption in the world, that\'s a shocking cost. A cost of course in environmental burden of waste disposal, in health burden of vermin control, but also in the simple matter of food cost and availability. It turns out in fact, that packaging design is by far the most cost effective and least environmentally burdensome way to feed the world. It is so important that the government of India has encouraged massive investment in its packaging industry, to feed India\'s hundreds of millions of people below the poverty line. (In the process, India has become the world leader in packaging design, and most of the packaging engineers at my company are Indians.)BishopSunday 19th of April 2009 4:06 pm
BishopSunday 19th of April 2009 4:06 pm
Umm
But how much was a can of Pepsi?AiboSunday 19th of April 2009 10:42 pm
AiboSunday 19th of April 2009 10:42 pm
Robby the Robot
The Del Monte thingys with grapefruit instead of peaches are splendid. I doubt I\'d buy the celery from Safeway though, that\'s the kind of thing that I will only be ripped off for at a cafeteria or something where you are going to be ripped off no matter what. I don\'t think I could ever rationalize spending $15 on apples though. Robby the RobotSunday 19th of April 2009 11:37 pm
Robby the RobotSunday 19th of April 2009 11:37 pm
teddy beeeesh
am i even a robot?Teddy RuxpinMonday 20th of April 2009 7:23 am
Teddy RuxpinMonday 20th of April 2009 7:23 am
Chad
If Safeway sold celery in 8 ounce containers, they\'d ask $2.84 for it, according to an independent analysis of the grocery store\'s pricing. That seems pretty expensive. But Safeway could make it appear worthwhile with some slick celery marketing. Celery: Fill up on the food that can never make you fat!Mr. RobotoMonday 20th of April 2009 8:15 am
Mr. RobotoMonday 20th of April 2009 8:15 am
Teresa
hmm, a lot of people seem to think that it would take an idiot to buy something like that, rather than an idiot to package it. I know it\'s a slightly different situation, but I lived on a college campus for two years and without a car, and tiny $4 cups of celery sticks and wilty $5 salads were the only alternatives to cheese steaks and pizza which were more often than not cheaper. So, did I choose to be healthy and poor or fat and comfortable?PrisMonday 20th of April 2009 9:15 am
PrisMonday 20th of April 2009 9:15 am
I Suck
I had one of those fruit naturals thingies for lunch one day and the label fell off the container. I didn\'t feel like taking a swig of the syrupy leftover fruit juice so as I was walking to dispose of it in the office kitchen, one of my co-workers commented that I shouldn\'t be storing my specimen in the office fridge. She thought it was my pee! RoombaMonday 20th of April 2009 10:44 am
RoombaMonday 20th of April 2009 10:44 am
Albertson
What is the price per calorie?DalekMonday 20th of April 2009 12:27 pm
DalekMonday 20th of April 2009 12:27 pm
ARGH
Rob, is this stuff about your brother serious? I can\'t see the YouTube videos because I\'m at work. That\'s insane. There\'s a lot of money coming your brother\'s way, I suspect. . .Iron GiantMonday 20th of April 2009 12:58 pm
Iron GiantMonday 20th of April 2009 12:58 pm
davidbrown
That stuff is too expensive!! Who the heck could afford to buy it these days?? BumblebeeMonday 20th of April 2009 3:58 pm
BumblebeeMonday 20th of April 2009 3:58 pm
asdf
You need to get out more.Gigilo JoeMonday 20th of April 2009 6:18 pm
Gigilo JoeMonday 20th of April 2009 6:18 pm
BattingCleanUp
What\'s wrong with MacN\'Cheese in a tub?Wall-EMonday 20th of April 2009 7:24 pm
Wall-EMonday 20th of April 2009 7:24 pm
Mathieu
And the sad thing is, people buy it. All about convenience. Yeah, you could buy the uncut apples for a couple bucks and the caramel is cheap too. But you have to cut it and arrange it, and too much hassle. Screw it, I\'ll pay $16. BenderMonday 20th of April 2009 9:58 pm
BenderMonday 20th of April 2009 9:58 pm
Hank Scorpio
I\'m clumsy with sharp things, so these are a bargain if it means I\'m not risking more injury in the kitchen.The GunslingerTuesday 21st of April 2009 10:59 am
The GunslingerTuesday 21st of April 2009 10:59 am
Blackbeard
Actually, a lot of yogurt containers are only 4 or 6 oz. Prices go higher and the product gets smaller.MetropolisTuesday 21st of April 2009 1:21 pm
MetropolisTuesday 21st of April 2009 1:21 pm
adam
So, if the only thing added to these \"prepared foods\" is labor and packaging, we could calculate how much \"labor\" was inside the celery. VoltronTuesday 21st of April 2009 1:22 pm
VoltronTuesday 21st of April 2009 1:22 pm
Safeway can bite my shiny metal ass!BenderTuesday 21st of April 2009 2:47 pm
BenderTuesday 21st of April 2009 2:47 pm
Voltron
3 pounds of apples: $6. Dipping sauce: $3. A man to stand there and slice up apples by hand, for 30 minutes: $7 (at $14/hour). Seems reasonable to me!VoltronTuesday 21st of April 2009 6:11 pm
VoltronTuesday 21st of April 2009 6:11 pm
Googie
You mean that is not how apples grow?Wall-ETuesday 21st of April 2009 7:36 pm
Wall-ETuesday 21st of April 2009 7:36 pm
They\'ve been doing this with dog food for years.K9Tuesday 21st of April 2009 7:41 pm
K9Tuesday 21st of April 2009 7:41 pm
RadioDude
In our Wal-Mart in Oklahoma there are 10oz. packages of diced white onion for $2.50. You can buy a white onion for around $1.29/lb.Bicentennial ManTuesday 21st of April 2009 9:05 pm
Bicentennial ManTuesday 21st of April 2009 9:05 pm
Ed
I always wonder about the prics of these things. .85 cents worth of celery for 15 bucks. HilariousAiboWednesday 22nd of April 2009 2:13 pm
AiboWednesday 22nd of April 2009 2:13 pm
Gerald
Of course silly humans need to have prepared natural food. Besides, how can a celery picker/packer see even a percent of this? Many ag workers are still at the equivalent of $30/day. And what about the salmonella risks with produce? Are these supposed to be completely clean already?BenderWednesday 22nd of April 2009 4:13 pm
BenderWednesday 22nd of April 2009 4:13 pm
rin
I\'d buy the apples if they had more sauce.AiboWednesday 22nd of April 2009 10:14 pm
AiboWednesday 22nd of April 2009 10:14 pm
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T-XWednesday 22nd of April 2009 10:22 pm
Chauncy
they prepackage my food; i eat oil and scrap metal.The GunslingerThursday 23rd of April 2009 12:27 pm
The GunslingerThursday 23rd of April 2009 12:27 pm
Yes VICIThursday 23rd of April 2009 6:14 pm
VICIThursday 23rd of April 2009 6:14 pm
chuffles
water placed into a 20floz bottle: 1.29Tom ServoFriday 24th of April 2009 1:34 am
Tom ServoFriday 24th of April 2009 1:34 am
I have worked at many fruit markets, and the prepackaged fruit movement disturbs me. Greatly...BenderFriday 24th of April 2009 9:12 am
BenderFriday 24th of April 2009 9:12 am
Emily
Idk about the fruit tray...but in the store where I work (in OH) they\'re twice as much.B9Friday 24th of April 2009 11:27 am
B9Friday 24th of April 2009 11:27 am
Redford
Celery? More like... overpriced celery!Crow T. RobotSaturday 25th of April 2009 2:16 pm
Crow T. RobotSaturday 25th of April 2009 2:16 pm
Steele Smith
the apple snack tray is ridic! MegatronSunday 26th of April 2009 2:28 am
MegatronSunday 26th of April 2009 2:28 am
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PrisSunday 26th of April 2009 12:20 pm
shea
Thats not what my mom said.Gigilo JaneSunday 26th of April 2009 10:00 pm
Gigilo JaneSunday 26th of April 2009 10:00 pm
Optimus Prime
Celery is going to be the new currency, so that price is cheap. You heard it here first.Optimus PrimeMonday 27th of April 2009 11:17 am
Optimus PrimeMonday 27th of April 2009 11:17 am
DJ
Cutting is too difficult, and my time is extremely valuable. It is easier to buy the prepackaged vegetables at any cost. BenderTuesday 28th of April 2009 7:32 am
BenderTuesday 28th of April 2009 7:32 am
Peanut Buter
Well I never! How could they? I mean 14 Oz? .. and yet you can buy celery by the bunch for like 2.99 or something and you get like 28oz. But you have to wash it & trim it yourself.VICITuesday 28th of April 2009 1:26 pm
VICITuesday 28th of April 2009 1:26 pm
Data
Glad I don\'t need to eat any of this junk, I couldn\'t afford it!DataTuesday 28th of April 2009 6:23 pm
DataTuesday 28th of April 2009 6:23 pm
tiepohs
those fruits cups are a whole 50 cents mroe there than they are out here in ND. And that\'s -with- the club card. Ouch. They -are- damn tasty, though. I just bought one this evening. Mmmmm...BenderTuesday 28th of April 2009 8:52 pm
BenderTuesday 28th of April 2009 8:52 pm
Reject the Null
Shockingly degenerate. Although I do like the Kraft Easy Mac series, and I used to sneer at it because...why? Why can\'t you just make a box of mac & cheese and take some with you in a suitable container?TerminatorWednesday 29th of April 2009 7:49 pm
TerminatorWednesday 29th of April 2009 7:49 pm
Tommy
Recession FTW!T-1000Thursday 30th of April 2009 4:33 am
T-1000Thursday 30th of April 2009 4:33 am
BiteMyShiny
I love your website. It makes my day, every day.BenderThursday 30th of April 2009 6:18 pm
BenderThursday 30th of April 2009 6:18 pm
Derrick Gott
Wow, you\'re better off buying a plastic cup, bottle of water, and a knife and a whole thing of celery and making it yourself in the car during the ride home and still come off cheaper R2.C3POFriday 01st of May 2009 9:12 am
C3POFriday 01st of May 2009 9:12 am
Technically I\'m not a robot, this mechanical suit just helps me to be a more efficient exterminator.DalekSaturday 02nd of May 2009 7:11 am
DalekSaturday 02nd of May 2009 7:11 am
PinaColada
o wow the prices are outrageously highBenderSaturday 02nd of May 2009 4:55 pm
BenderSaturday 02nd of May 2009 4:55 pm
I don\'t get it......?Johnny 5Saturday 02nd of May 2009 9:29 pm
Johnny 5Saturday 02nd of May 2009 9:29 pm
SaborKT
In Houston, I\'ve gotten a huge tray of cut carrots, celery, broccoli, and baby tomatoes with two types of dip for $4.99. I did the math and it was better than individually buying and doing it myself. Check for the stuff that\'s a day or two from the \"sell by\" date. It\'ll be ridiculously cheap! Wall-ESunday 03rd of May 2009 7:19 am
Wall-ESunday 03rd of May 2009 7:19 am
I\'d much rather pay $15 for 2lbs of cut apples than $5 for a 5lb bag of whole apples (which won\'t be rotten at the end of the day).Tom ServoSunday 03rd of May 2009 4:35 pm
Tom ServoSunday 03rd of May 2009 4:35 pm
chubot
this reminds me of my days working in the produce department at giant eagle. those del monte fruit naturals are SO EXPENSIVE! \"convenience food\"Tom ServoMonday 11th of May 2009 9:06 pm
Tom ServoMonday 11th of May 2009 9:06 pm
George
Jesus Christ... I get a 20lb box of amazing local organic fruits and veggies delivered a block away from my house every week for $20. Sure, you\'ve gotta wash it (and cut it! horrors!) yourself... DalekThursday 14th of May 2009 1:06 pm
DalekThursday 14th of May 2009 1:06 pm
Gigantor
those reusable containers really rack up the prices, eh?Mr. RobotoFriday 15th of May 2009 4:38 am
Mr. RobotoFriday 15th of May 2009 4:38 am
Melanie
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