Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

[pugboy]

allyuh ever ask where the tomato puree matouks and dem using comes from?

[*KRONIK*]

allyuh ever ask where the tomato puree matouks and dem using comes from?

It has crossed my mind a few times

[pugboy]

google worlds largest tomato producers
it will surprise you

allyuh ever ask where the tomato puree matouks and dem using comes from?

It has crossed my mind a few times

[Mmoney607]

^ Mr. Sawatee only likes Haagen Daaz or wat? That shouldn't be allowed to be called ice cream as well.

Breds, you ent realize there are actual rules in developed countries for what can be called ice cream? It has to meet certain standards, like a minimum amount of milk fat and milk solids. There's also a limit on how much stabilizers, emulsifiers, and even air they can put in it.

You ever see that imported BON brand “ice cream”? If you check the packaging, it’s not actually labelled as ice cream. That’s because it doesn’t meet the requirements.

But local brands? They don’t care. They'll call anything ice cream, mostly because they’re not exporting to countries with strict labeling laws.

Same thing goes for ketchup. No local ketchup brands, not even Matouk’s, have enough actual tomato in them to be legally called ketchup overseas.

Anyway. look it up and educate yourself.

That being said Haagen Daaz tastes like shite.

You kinda right, you don't get that sugar high with haagen dazs. But also I have no idea how creamery or any of them other ones taste

[Mmoney607]

How peppercorns and Starlite selling haagen dazs cheaper than massy. It's 87 in massy but 72 in Starlite

[bluefete]

Willie's Ice Cream tried to export to Germany.

Got stopped by a non-tariff barrier.

They had to get a certificate from the government about the milk that was used in production.

End of that story.

[alfa]

Willie was the worse ice cream I ever tasted. Around that time Walls showed up on the scene and it was alleged that a certain politician friend of Willie put a stop to it to let his ice cream sell.
Add for ketchup, the local ones is the only kind I can tolerate, 'real' ketchup too sour

[pugboy]

definitely one of the worst
them and the other one called dairy bar or something by the first owner of kfc

[paid_influencer]

what allyuh ice cream men think about logans or soody's or any of the new brands?

[triniterribletim]

When in Trini, JnJ every time. I don't look at ice cream nowadays though, it's all about the gelato. You wouldn't want to go back to regular ice cream. Two scoops is 12 TTD or thereabouts.

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[pugboy]

where is triple j?

chankas open a gelato place in aranguez

When in Trini, Triple J's every time. I don't look at ice cream nowadays though, it's all about the gelato. You wouldn't want to go back to regular ice cream. Two scoops is 12 TTD or thereabouts.

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[triniterribletim]

where is triple j?

chankas open a gelato place in aranguez

When in Trini, Triple J's every time. I don't look at ice cream nowadays though, it's all about the gelato. You wouldn't want to go back to regular ice cream. Two scoops is 12 TTD or thereabouts.

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Misremembered the name, it's JnJ Ice cream. I hope the quality is still the same as I remember. Back in the days it was only a Tobago thing. As soon as we reach Sandy Point, was time for JnJs.

[dogg]

allyuh ever ask where the tomato puree matouks and dem using comes from?

Well they import the pepper mash from China, so i guess they get the tomato paste from there too?

[pugboy]

it’s staggering when one sees how their tomato production has rocked the world markets quietly over the years

in africa pretty much all meals are cooked with tomato and now everybody uses canned from china
no longer feasible for them to grow in africa esp with climate change

and the real kicker is the chinese themselves don’t cook with tomatoes at least in traditional chinese cooking

they like to talk about the 1% here and the goods they control starbucks etc but it’s the high profit stuff like ketchup where serious money is made under the guise of “local mfg”

allyuh ever ask where the tomato puree matouks and dem using comes from?

Well they import the pepper mash from China, so i guess they get the tomato paste from there too?

[paid_influencer]

wait, so we importing pepper mash and tomato from china to bottle and sell to Trump as 'Made in T&T' ?

lol

[pugboy]

rebottling = mfg

wait, so we importing pepper mash and tomato from china to bottle and sell to Trump as 'Made in T&T' ?

lol

[bluefete]

When in Trini, JnJ every time. I don't look at ice cream nowadays though, it's all about the gelato. You wouldn't want to go back to regular ice cream. Two scoops is 12 TTD or thereabouts.

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Isn't that Italian ice cream?

[bluefete]

So last Sunday opposite Lok Jack, I got 5 small pineapples for $20 - real sweet and made juice with the skins and 1 watermelon @$3./lb - really good.

Watermelon in market was $6/$7 a lb.

A young couple was selling.

[triniterribletim]

When in Trini, JnJ every time. I don't look at ice cream nowadays though, it's all about the gelato. You wouldn't want to go back to regular ice cream. Two scoops is 12 TTD or thereabouts.

193_greg-salibian_divulgacao.jpeg

Isn't that Italian ice cream?

Yeah, but when you have it you won't want to go back to regular ice cream. Gelato is dense, the texture is different and the flavour is richer. Even though it is more expensive than regular ice cream, it is worth it.

[DMan7]

So last Sunday opposite Lok Jack, I got 5 small pineapples for $20 - real sweet and made juice with the skins and 1 watermelon @$3./lb - really good.

Watermelon in market was $6/$7 a lb.

A young couple was selling.

Well look at that, I was now going there to buy that watermelon for $3 per lbs. Was hesistant a few days ago because of likely non-sweet watermelon but I see it got your seal of approval.

[death365]

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Barbados proves this nit to be completely accurate.

redress, allow me to break it down for the 'mites here.

Supposed you decide to make a currency called Redress dollars, RD$, issued by the Redress Central Bank. You have $1000 US$ in an account set asides as reserves and issue $2000 RD$. You set an exchange rate at 2:1 for a RD$. You can vary that exchange rate, make it 6:1 if you want, but you keep your currency issued balanced with your hard currency reserves.

You never going to run into shortages, because every dollar you issued is accounted for by something sitting in your reserves. This is how a "real" fixed exchange rate is supposed to operate.

Now say you decide to float your RD$. You no longer keep reserves to match your exchange rate. The value of the dollar is based on supply and demand handled by the market - not your reserves.

Now suddenly you try to fix you dollar at a below-market exchange rate. But you don't have the hard currency backing for all the additional currency you have issued. You run into forex "shortages" because the dollar has nothing backing it.

You can pretend everything is alright and pretend you have a real fixed exchange rate by making grand speeches and running down your savings and borrowing hard currency any chance you get, to "relieve shortages".

But at a certain point it cannot go on because you have simply run out of money to prop up your currency.

This is exactly what is happening in T&T, and we going to run out of money very, very soon.

[Dave]

So last Sunday opposite Lok Jack, I got 5 small pineapples for $20 - real sweet and made juice with the skins and 1 watermelon @$3./lb - really good.

Watermelon in market was $6/$7 a lb.

A young couple was selling.

Same..the melons are always nice. Sad part I'm always going somewhere for the day so very few times I get to buy and carry home. They some representation on the other side.

[bluefete]

So last Sunday opposite Lok Jack, I got 5 small pineapples for $20 - real sweet and made juice with the skins and 1 watermelon @$3./lb - really good.

Watermelon in market was $6/$7 a lb.

A young couple was selling.

Well look at that, I was now going there to buy that watermelon for $3 per lbs. Was hesistant a few days ago because of likely non-sweet watermelon but I see it got your seal of approval.

LOL. I told the youngster that I am not lucky in choosing watermelons. Wifey says I choose 1 good one in every 10. So I let him choose it for me and told him if it not good "I'll be Bach" (iykyk).

I will pass again tomorrow please God to see what they have and at what price.

[bluefete]

So last Sunday opposite Lok Jack, I got 5 small pineapples for $20 - real sweet and made juice with the skins and 1 watermelon @$3./lb - really good.

Watermelon in market was $6/$7 a lb.

A young couple was selling.

Same..the melons are always nice. Sad part I'm always going somewhere for the day so very few times I get to buy and carry home. They some representation on the other side.

First time I bought from them so I will see how it goes. Melons don't spoil jusso. You can buy ... oh ho ... yuh mean yuh does always be going by hungry people .....

[paid_influencer]

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Barbados proves this nit to be completely accurate.

Barbados doesn't have "shortages" though. They have formal exchange rate controls and allowances as part of their national policy to keep foreign reserves at their policy-decided level.

https://www.centralbank.org.bb/faqs/exc ... ntrol-faqs

A properly implemented fixed exchange rate would essentially be full dollarisation just with different pictures on the notes. The closest I can think of regionally is the EC$, which is beyond the reach of any particular island government fackery. I think the EC central bank has something like 98% in foreign reserves backing the EC$.

What imbert is claiming to have done is set a fixed exchange rate, by accident, on purpose, by continuously drawing down foreign reserves, the HSF, and by borrowing internationally. This fixed exchange rate is not backed by reserves. It is bound to failure. He's claiming to have a fixed exchange rate the same as the ECCB does, but without doing any of the hard work needed to support such an exchange regime.

[viedcht]

^ exactly

[Dizzy28]

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Barbados proves this nit to be completely accurate.

Barbados doesn't have "shortages" though. They have formal exchange rate controls and allowances as part of their national policy to keep foreign reserves at their policy-decided level.

https://www.centralbank.org.bb/faqs/exc ... ntrol-faqs

A properly implemented fixed exchange rate would essentially be full dollarisation just with different pictures on the notes. The closest I can think of regionally is the EC$, which is beyond the reach of any particular island government fackery. I think the EC central bank has something like 98% in foreign reserves backing the EC$.

What imbert is claiming to have done is set a fixed exchange rate, by accident, on purpose, by continuously drawing down foreign reserves, the HSF, and by borrowing internationally. This fixed exchange rate is not backed by reserves. It is bound to failure. He's claiming to have a fixed exchange rate the same as the ECCB does, but without doing any of the hard work needed to support such an exchange regime.

An allowance is a quota.
A quota is how you manage shortages

A shotgage by any other name is still a shortage

[paid_influencer]

i give my kid an allowance

does that mean I have a shortage of money

what im getting at is trinidad doesn't have enough foreign reserves or income to maintain our supposed "fixed" exchange rate. It is going to collapse spectacularly so in soon order

[Dizzy28]

i give my kid an allowance

does that mean I have a shortage of money

what im getting at is trinidad doesn't have enough foreign reserves or income to maintain our supposed "fixed" exchange rate. It is going to collapse spectacularly so in soon order

So businesses and adult Bajans hold equivalency to your kid and not say to free markets?

Cool!!

[paid_influencer]

i give my kid an allowance

does that mean I have a shortage of money

what im getting at is trinidad doesn't have enough foreign reserves or income to maintain our supposed "fixed" exchange rate. It is going to collapse spectacularly so in soon order

So businesses and adult Bajans hold equivalency to your kid and not say to free markets?

Cool!!

That is up to Bajans and their government. But it is essentially what the relationship is in that country as far as "free markets".

https://www.centralbank.org.bb/faqs/exc ... ntrol-faqs

oddly enough on that page,

There is no prohibition on any foreign CURRENCY into Barbados. Remember, however, that if you are a resident, you should surrender as soon as possible, any foreign CURRENCY which you may bring back from abroad to an Authorised Dealer for exchange into Barbados dollars. The exception to this relates to persons holding foreign currency accounts.

The Central Banks of Jamaica and Guyana have requested that under no circumstances should Jamaica and Guyana CURRENCY notes be encashed outside of their respective territories. E.C. dollar notes are freely exchanged by Authorised Dealers. It should also be noted that currency notes of Trinidad & Tobago are not currently exchanged by Authorised Dealers in Barbados.

that part in bold, could you explain that part?

We have a fixed exchange rate after all, the Minister of Finance said so !!!