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[dutchboy]

Next week will be eat or fill the truck with diesel.     This food pricing is getting out of hand. Picked up a Ham (for just a split second) that fit in the palm of my hand and it was $22  12 pack of Diet Dew $7 $2.99 for a dozen eggs.  I doubt it's the farmers getting it all, I know it isn't the truckers so is it the grocery stores pouring it to us?

The sad reality is I might need to have Glenn (gulp) show me how to garden next year. Hope drinking his beer isn't part of the deal.   

[glenn57]

 

Yesterday while I was stocking shelves in the juice isle, the gal that changes the prices, usually up, went wow this stuff went up over a buck.  she shook her head and said nuttin goes up a little anymore. It was some kids juice packets

[dutchboy]

Today they charged me $6.59 for a 24 oz jar of Gedney Sweet Gherkins pickles. That is $1.50 dollars more than 10 days ago. If I had a good buddy who was a cop i'd have him fake arrest the store manager for felony gouging. It's pickles for cripes sake!

[glenn57]

Just did the math on my pickles I canned last year. I paid about $3.52 per quart. That's just the price of the pickles. I grow my own dill. Doesn't figure in the onions, but I grow them too. Or pickling salt, vinegar and garlic. Or the propane to heat the brine and hot bath. So maybe 4 bucks a qt.

I ordered a bushel this year so not sure how much there going to go up . But I'm already hording vinegar. The stuff I like doesn't seem to last on the shelf either. It's the That's Smart brand!

[dutchboy]

Whole pickles or cut up? Gherkins are whole and I don't know if you can jam as many in as if they are sliced? I suppose if they go by weight it doesn't matter. 

[glenn57]

There whole pickles, usually small in size 3-4 inches.

[LPS]

I love pickles!  We order 40 lbs from these people east of here that have garden stuff.  40 lbs makes 40 qts pretty darn close.  We can do that 2 out of 3 years to keep our larder filled with them.  I now add onions per Glenn and I put a jalapeno from the freezer in about 10 of those jars per HD I think.  I may put 2 in this year.  LOL 

[glenn57]

I love pickles!  We order 40 lbs from these people east of here that have garden stuff.  40 lbs makes 40 qts pretty darn close.  We can do that 2 out of 3 years to keep our larder filled with them.  I now add onions per Glenn and I put a jalapeno from the freezer in about 10 of those jars per HD I think.  I may put 2 in this year.  LOL

been running this threw my head based on what i usually get. 40lbs gotta be close or over a bushell. i usually do a 1/2bushell and get somewhere between 15-17 qts depending on the size of  the pickles!!!!

can i ask what you pay for them??? my have bushell is about 60 bucks. there more spendy cause i want the small ones and there is a way more demand for them. i'm doing a whole bushell this year because my stepdad wants some and mom wants nothing to do with it!!! gotta suck up to him a little..he bought a boat and put a new 15 horse Merc 4 stroke motor on it and said he's leaving it at the cabin!!!!

[LPS]

I can't remember exactly what I paid Glenn.  I am thinking I paid about $50 or $60 for about 35 lbs of pickles and 35 heads of dill the last time.  They didn't have the 40 lbs that I requested but close.  I don't thing they are Amish but some group like that and I don't care about their deal but they don't use any chemicals on their gardens so that is a good thing.

[fishwidow]

I don't thing they are Amish but some group like that

Mennonites maybe? I understand there are some not far across the border.

[LPS]

That could be.  I see women with dresses and black skull caps in the grocery store often.  I wonder if they are Mennonites. 

[mike89]

they are every where in the state.. 

[Gunner55]

That could be.  I see women with dresses and black skull caps in the grocery store often.  I wonder if they are Mennonites. 

Got a lot of them near us down home. There's quite a few different sects of those from what I understand. No black skull caps down there that I've seen

[LPS]

I think Hutterites are near SW MN with large hog confinement operations.  Not sure how they differ but mayhaps I should read up on them.

[dutchboy]

I think Hutterites are near SW MN with large hog confinement operations.  Not sure how they differ but mayhaps I should read up on them.

There are also some in Canada. They use to haul wheat to Mpls and then stop and fill up the truck with restaurant equipment from us. I always thought the older guys were more interested in the "negotiating jug" we kept for them than the equipment it's self.

[Dotch]

Yes there are. They used to come down to Rock Lake on a Saturday nite, live it up, load their old pickup with booze until it squatted down to the wheel wells then go back across into Canada on the prairie trails before sun up. They also were nicknamed "the long pockets" when they came down to the implement dealership at Rolla. More than once they got caught with wrenches they'd slip into the long pockets they had sewn inside their pants. Kinda gave 'em away if they clinked when they walked. 

[Gunner55]

We rarely see the young guys, but the young girls will be in the grocery stores once in a while. They usually are wearing new Nike sneakers & talking on a fancy phone while they're shopping.