Wow they really do make it hard to find the “And I raped kids” version
The Price of this Candy Bar
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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shittydwarf@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
At least it’s snap eligible
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ya…and you can only get snap if you work 80 hrs a week, have written consent from your boss, your past 4 bosses, the blood of a tainted saint, the pubes of a dead god, the hymen of a virgin, And 3 hearts from a slain dragon.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think those can all be obtained on Epstein Island
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol tell that to my meth head mother that gets SNAP without having held a job in her life. She sells her snap for more meth.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That might depend on the state you live in.
kungen@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Am I uneducated about how SNAP works, or is this a rare Texas W?
I think it’s outrageous that you can’t even buy hygiene articles or medicines with SNAP, and in that way it’d make sense that something so non-nutritious like candy shouldn’t be allowed? Alcohol isn’t allowed either for example, despite the fact that beer would be (at least marginally) more nutritious than candy.
So other than increasing the stigma already associated with SNAP, is it really problematic to ban candy? Even if it’s not a major cost point, the principle of “poor people are too dumb to budget themselves, so we won’t let them buy necessities like diapers and tampons… but we’ll gladly let them buy candy” just feels wrong to me?
ol_capt_joe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
But if you break it in half, you’ll have 2 bars, and that’s like 50% off! Break it again, 50+50 that’s 100% off! Why stop there?! Trump did say he was gonna cut prices by 700%.
Promises made, Americans wept 🙃
Magister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Canadian here, I remember years ago going to the US, we were at par for money, and a candy bar in the US was like $1 or $2. So the $2 chocolate bar was $2 for us too.
Now this US$6.49 is basically CA$10, it is insane!
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Any amount of money for most US ‘chocolate’ is too much.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reeses lovers are a cult. They know the chocolate is bad, they just want the peanut butter which over roasted and hopped up on sugar.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
I hate how right you are about this.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I got one of the big peanut butter cups made with real peanut butter form a candy store a little while back, they had cut down on the amount of chocolate so much it fell apart when biting it :(
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
What type of store is this in?
Gas stations, or department stores around me gouge the shit out of you for snacks/candy. Easily $5-6cad for a chocolate bar. A dollar store though, usually sells an Oh Henry (~58g) for $1.25 or $2 for a ‘share size’ (the 2 smaller bars in one package ~82g).
Still not great, but much better than $6.50 (USD I assume)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I also see this exact price for these at the fancy upscale grocery store across the street from me in addition to the gas stations.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why is it SNAP eligible?
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
If you make enough that you get Snap, you’re not living you best life.
Let the mfer have a candy bar. God damn
Tolos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But this is America, where you must be punished for being poor.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s eligible because it’s food. It prevents starvation. Plus it’s hard to micromanage what poor people eat. On top of that, poor grandmas with diabetes can use it to prevent a coma if their sugar is dangerously low.
In Texas, candy bars aren’t eligible. Neither are soft drinks, including uncaffeinated diet drinks, but ice cream, cake, pies, and chocolate milk are still eligible for now. But they’re planning to take that away from poor people too. Also “luxury” meats like steak.
After that I imagine they plan to make poor people eat out of dirty buckets filled with offal and rotting vegetables.
BarnWolf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s junk food, not fancy nice food. It’s bad for you, full stop. Nobody is going to pay that price for junk food. This also goes for fast food that now thinks it’s some luxury food, it’s not, it’s still junk. For God sakes, stop giving these soulless,oney sucking corporations your money. It’s that simple. This bs stops when the money stops.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seriously, for that price you could eat real foodlike substances, perhaps even something that was in the ground more recently than it was in a factory.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No, it doesn’t. They influence the FDA and it’s “generally as safe” stuff.
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The corporations setting prices are all in cahoots to put all the fat poor fucks on a diet, or criminalizing them if the people resort to stealing the overpriced junk food they’re addicted to.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.
this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lbs is a shortened version of the Greek word for measuring scales. So it actually doesn‘t mean a specific weight, but more like “weighed” or something.
pipes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
While true that originally it also meant “balance” (in late latin we later got the word bilanx for scales - literally two plates), lb is for latin libra, and it was an actual specific weight (with a corresponding economical value in the Roman as coin) in use since the Roman republic, and it has remained in use for more than two millennia all over the world (with slighly different values depending on time and place, but usually between 350-450grams). It’s not an accident the the UK pound stirling coin still has the same L shaped symbol £, same as the italian lira, etc
thatGuyWithGlasses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pound in other languages is “libra”, as is weight scale …
poopkins@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How ironic that Americans use a foreign language to describe their unit of measurement that is used nowhere outside the USA.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How big are they? The is zero indication that I can see.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re about the largest ones you can buy lol. It’s a super king sized that is two full sized bars in the package. Roughly 150g total, and 720kcal for the whole thing.
This particular store is also inflated. The same thing is $3.29 at the store by me.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes I thought something must be off.
I guess OP was infuriated about the wildly inflated price at this shop.
Not about prices in general.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
148g with a google search.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 2 weeks ago
This follows my conspiracy theory that grocery stores in areas with high SNAP benefits ussge increase the prices on everything significantly. I have some family in an area where a lot of people rely on SNAP, and spent $20 on a pack of five hot dogs.
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
But I don’t understand how this candy is SNAP eligible. Last year SNAP began banning snacks & sweets & junk food.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Old photo maybe?
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 2 weeks ago
I think eligibility varies state to state
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Funny how they say it’s 120 calories per 1/8th of the pack 🙄 Yeah guys, that’s how people eat candy bars.
1/8th at a time.
The online nutrition information for a king size is similar, in that it says 150 calories for 1/3 of the bar. So the individual one is about 450 calories, while 2 of them is 960, 60 calories more than it should be.
Or I’m reading the fine print on the packaging wrong, in which case it says 120 calories per 1/6th of the pack, which would bring it out to 720 calories, or, two bars smaller than the “king size,” which seems deceptive, considering the packaging says it’s a “super king 2 bars.”
Sustolic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am so glad I am not the only one who thought that this was a 2 pound bar…
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
They better get used to people not buying their candy bars.
PissMissile@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t buy it?
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One bar is 5.25 oz so… 43.6 USD/kg In Norway a 51g bar cost me 684.31NOK/kg. At today’s Google fex rate is 73.33 USD.
But then it’s an import from the US and who knows what gets tariffed and taxed like fuck these days
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Im willing to bet most people do not look at the price tag before buying it. Same with soda, chips, etc. Maybe they don’t even look at the register. They just swipe their card, same as always.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
2 lb bar @ 6.49 is 20¢/oz.
Snickers King Size is about $3 @ 3.29 oz.
The 2lb bar despite the sticker shock is a far cheaper candy bar by weight.
Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Reese’s Fast Break Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Nougat Super King Size Candy, Bar 5.25 oz www.walmart.com/ip/…/3257536086
2 pounds is 32 oz.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, I got confused thinking it was a 2lb bar, some absurd weight for the price. Def not. My mistake.
That’s then $1.25/oz which is definitely a very expensive bar.
Zyrxil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How in the world are you getting that the bar is 2lbs? No one makes a 2lb candy bar; the size would be huge. The bar in the picture certainly isn’t big enough to be 2lbs. Googling shows a Reese’s Fast Break to be 1.8oz, or 3.5oz for the King Size (which is not printed on the bars in the picture. That’s $1.80/oz for the 2 x 1.8oz bars in the package.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Read my edit. Someone asked about lbs and I saw the large price and “2”, so my brain went to “absurdly large American candy bar for $6+”
My mistake.
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
overpriced shit packaged and priced for convenience stores and checkout lanes.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pure lunacy, I’d never.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
720 calories for 6.49 isn’t bad honestly
KeithD@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Huh. And hereabouts I can generally get a good 250g block of chocolate for the equivalent before tax of US$3.40.
yenahmik@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most junk food in the US has gone off the rails in terms of price. Like seriously, don’t spend money on food that has zero nutritional value and is actively harmful to your health. You’ll feel so much better and your bank account will be so much bigger.
I guess I have corporate America to thank for no longer buying chips, candy, or baked goods that I might’ve otherwise splurged on as a treat. Can’t justify it with prices the way they are.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was with you, up until baked goods. What’s wrong with baked goods? A nice loaf of bread freshly baked from a bakery? Or maybe a baked potato with cheese and bacon? Or maybe a big bag of pot…wait, sorry. Wrong kind of baked.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think baked goods as a treat would be cakes or cookies.
Also from what I hear in USA bread is generally of very poor quality.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Even red meat. I’ve basically given up on beef and pork because it’s so expensive. Just tofu or poultry these days.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m with you about forgoing chips/candy these days. I can’t get behind paying 3 bucks for a small snickers bar.
I will say it has me baking more these days if I want something sweet or want bread. Thank God tortillas are still cheap, I have no idea how to make them… yet.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Corn tortillas are easy and taste great fresh. Buy Masa Harina and use the recipe on the bag. (2 cups masa harina, ½ tsp salt, 1½-2 cups hot water.)
If you aren’t sure enough to buy a 5-pound bag, Bob’s Red Mill sells a 624-gram bag with complete instructions on the back. Remember to plan ahead to let the dough rest an hour to absorb the water, and have waxed paper or a cut ziploc bag to flatten it between.
Don’t try to use corn meal or polenta. The nixtamalization of the corn before grinding is important.
Flour tortillas aren’t hard either, plenty recipes online.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Costco sells uncooked tortillas from TortillaLand, and they’re fucking amazing. Cook like 60 seconds in a hot skillet on each side and you get a fresh, hot tortilla. No oil or anything needed. It’s wonderful. If you can find them, I’d recommend checking them out.
Only downside is because they’re uncooked, they have a limited fridge life, unlike the pre-cooked ones, but they taste soooo much better.
www.tortillaland.com/where-to-buy/
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Tortillas are amazing right off the pan. It’s hard to eat anything else. So depending on your views on that information, you might want to wait or hurry up on making your own. Pro tip, make sure to use flour that a Mexican store would have and they seem to go through quickly.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh fuck off with this holier than thou horseshit. It’s a chocolate bar. People aren’t living off these things as their only meals every day of the week. It’s a treat coming home from work, or for a job well done.
nomy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
If you need a $7 candy bar “as a treat” for a job well done I’m not sure you’re an adult.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Frito Lay fucked up by charging $7 for a bag of chips. It took a chunk out of their profits when people stopped buying them. They have reversed course for now.
latimes.com/…/how-7-bags-of-doritos-cost-pepsico-…
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fucking moron.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This particular store is either not in the US, or heavily inflated. The exact same bar at the store by me is $3.29.
It’s also 6 servings worth, and the whole bar is 720kcal.
SolSerkonos@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Tbh if you’re purely viewing it as kcal per $ that’s not that bad.
Wolfram@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Legit. I sound like an old man but I remember when junk food cost at least 3 bucks or something. In my area its 6.79. 6 fucking 79? Fuck offffff. This shits predatory and crazy
yenahmik@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I might’ve eaten a disgusting amount of Costco sized Doritos during the early pandemic. A giant bag for $3.50. Now those bags are closer to $8 and I can’t remember the last time I bought chips.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
My local grocery outlet still has gummy works in the plastic thing for like $2, and Marshall’s still has treats for a decent price. If you’re expecting cheap stuff from your local grocer, that’s on you.