The price of tomatoes

[randolphinshan]

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All that bread Max, are you an undercover sufferer ?

[pugboy]

the cops check your temp at the markets

[pugboy]

if u is a real sufferer just use more ketchup instead
squirt some ketchup on your salad as a substitute

we already are one of the largest consumers of ketchup per population
and well all them ketchup is not mfg locally as they would like us to believe but sourced as tomato paste from china

[bluefete]

That's around $29.55 a lb. Why would anyone buy that? I'd adjust my menu before I say I need that

Convenience bro.

Price hot, very hot but this is what i was getting that.

Those fortunate, choose service and comfort over price….and most importantly safety.

Especially in these times, why go to the market or vegetable stall where the chances of breeched covid protocols are significantly higher?
When last did u get your temperature checked in the market or washed your hands at the non-existent wash bays at the veggie stall?

Most of these other places WILL have items cheaper but there is an increased risk factor.

The consumer is entitled to his own choice.

There you go showing off your 1% pay cheque again.

You are right in that you can spend your money anyway you wish. But you don't have to come and laud it over 2NR sufferers.

BTW - Didn't massy St. Augustine have a Covid outbreak?

Me, even if I could afford it, I would have passed at that price. I buy plenty when in season and do without when it is out of season.

BTW - You making tomato choka and bread orr??

[paid_influencer]

that really is plenty bread

[Soul Collector]

You know you're well and truly irritating when Dave insults you.

loooool

that really is plenty bread

The man have venes to feed, wham to allyuh?

[ProtonPowder]

if u is a real sufferer just use more ketchup instead
squirt some ketchup on your salad as a substitute

we already are one of the largest consumers of ketchup per population
and well all them ketchup is not mfg locally as they would like us to believe but sourced as tomato paste from china

Trinis use a lot of ketchup because it is used in cooking and also as a condiment. People use it when stewing meat and when baking meat.

Next up: clarence rambharat saying stew chicken is a chinese dish because the ketchup is chinese

[Chimera]

yeah i have to agree with Max there

for the past few months i find myself paying more for a lot of small things just because i know the crowd smaller and the service would be faster and cleaner

i haven't gone to a market in a very long time

and i stop buying produce from roadside vendors because i know for sure they all handling money and produce hand in hand with very irregular hand washing or sanitizing

[pugboy]

must be real sufferer venes because plenty venes don’t like bread esp factory bread
they sticking with they arepa

You know you're well and truly irritating when Dave insults you.

loooool

that really is plenty bread

The man have venes to feed, wham to allyuh?

[Soul Collector]

must be real sufferer venes because plenty venes don’t like bread esp factory bread
they sticking with they arepa

You know you're well and truly irritating when Dave insults you.

loooool

that really is plenty bread

The man have venes to feed, wham to allyuh?

It have some $5 bread that the parlour start getting recently. All the venes in the apartments around like they does smell when it reach cuz the shopkeeper says as soon as it hit, ALL GONE. The venes pass and tek all lol. It look like max treating them to some good ole kiss bread

[timelapse]

Doesn't Max own minimarts? Why buy at Massey

[Gladiator]

Just two months ago the farmers were up in arms because there was a huge tomato glut. The cost to hire workers to pick the tomatoes was more than the sales so they left them to rot on the vine. CNC3 did a story on it. Tomatoes went down to $5 a pound and even lower according to how much you buy.

It was only time that you could foresee a tomato shortage. All tomato farmers gave up on tomatoes and planted other crops.

The problem is management, Agricultural Society is a waste and Ministry of Agriculture belongs in a latrine. There is nobody managing the farmers and advising them what to plant, how much and when to plant it. Doh even talk about any Govt initiative to process the excess tomatoes, they don't even run a course to teach people how to do it.

We really living in a sheit hole country where nothing works and whatever does is riddle with racket/

[pugboy]

they should be processing tomato to make ketchup instead of wasting forex for companies to import tomato paste and say they mfg ketchup when they really just bottling it with some minor additions

[Gem_in_i]

Which is local ketchup?

[Wraith King]

no sry i wuz ban again. admin ban d all accnt frm 56. i beg wid msg to adminz but dey say its spam n keepz bannin n my son jus help make new trinitnr accnt.

Man have back up, back up, back up, back up, back up accounts.

Trinituner is a lawless place.

no mistr fatboi matr1x alt accnt.... dey adminz permban n delte all d accnts b4. so dey r nut bckups.

That's too bad for you. My account hasn't been banned so this is my only account. How does one get their account banned permanently? As well why do you type like a 13 year old girl that's trying to seem cool but it ends up being cringe?

[Wraith King]

they should be processing tomato to make ketchup instead of wasting forex for companies to import tomato paste and say they mfg ketchup when they really just bottling it with some minor additions

You got Clarence fever.

[pugboy]

none
just like all them juices that are “locally mfg” are simply concentrate imported from mexico and other countries and thinned out to suit
some are already sweetened so the local company does say “no sugar added” a real half truth

Which is local ketchup?

[alfa]

Doesn't Max own minimarts? Why buy at Massey

Minimarts partnered with local entrepreneurs to have a choelo man outside

[Wraith King]

Doesn't Max own minimarts? Why buy at Massey

He owns Massy now.

[viedcht]

we already are one of the largest consumers of ketchup per population

I did not know this... I never imagined we would be.

[gastly369]

Doesn't Max own minimarts? Why buy at Massey

Pfffftttt...

[viedcht]

As Yuh mention arepa... I check in with mums few days ago, and she got about 5-6packs of cornmeal in the fridge... She got some deal in anands SPark @2.00 each!

[viedcht]

I know I see dat talk before on tuner

Doesn't Max own minimarts? Why buy at Massey

Pfffftttt...

[MikeyRTT]

Up to yesterday (June 11th 2021), PriceSart wrapped tomato price was $46.22 per kilogram. 2 weeks ago I paid $16.28 for a kilogram of tomato. Just amazing.

I'll be the new Tomato Farmer on the block for sure.

[gastly369]

Good ting the small garden home have these tings yes....
All seasonings tomatoes lettuce peppers baigan etc

[Soul Collector]

Just two months ago the farmers were up in arms because there was a huge tomato glut. The cost to hire workers to pick the tomatoes was more than the sales so they left them to rot on the vine. CNC3 did a story on it. Tomatoes went down to $5 a pound and even lower according to how much you buy.

It was only time that you could foresee a tomato shortage. All tomato farmers gave up on tomatoes and planted other crops.

The problem is management, Agricultural Society is a waste and Ministry of Agriculture belongs in a latrine. There is nobody managing the farmers and advising them what to plant, how much and when to plant it. Doh even talk about any Govt initiative to process the excess tomatoes, they don't even run a course to teach people how to do it.

We really living in a sheit hole country where nothing works and whatever does is riddle with racket/

No foresight for anything. Run the big farmers into the ground. Watch Rowley in his garden for tips on yuh home garden and tighten back yuh belt. No need to reduce the food import bill and increase food security on our tiny island. We have rich people to order ting fuh we. See how considerate them is?

[pugboy]

rowlee priority is the ghana stuff he say we would be getting expertise on

[timelapse]

Btw. Cherry tomatoes will grow from cuttings.

[daring dragoon]

Just two months ago the farmers were up in arms because there was a huge tomato glut. The cost to hire workers to pick the tomatoes was more than the sales so they left them to rot on the vine. CNC3 did a story on it. Tomatoes went down to $5 a pound and even lower according to how much you buy.

It was only time that you could foresee a tomato shortage. All tomato farmers gave up on tomatoes and planted other crops.

The problem is management, Agricultural Society is a waste and Ministry of Agriculture belongs in a latrine. There is nobody managing the farmers and advising them what to plant, how much and when to plant it. Doh even talk about any Govt initiative to process the excess tomatoes, they don't even run a course to teach people how to do it.

We really living in a sheit hole country where nothing works and whatever does is riddle with racket/

year after year is the same story with all produce. last year was cucumber and bodi where everyone planted during the first lockdown in march and a 5lb bodi was retailing for $15, tomatoes was $2 at a time last year and they stop plant an prices go up. only watermelon steady at $2. in a little while bhaigan, bodi and tomato will drop in price. chicken was killed by farmers in the chicken wars of 2020 till it had a shortage, arawak drop chicken prices at the factory, cucumber was $8 a month ago and now is $4. this is a normal seasonal rythm and that is why they sell big freezers to freeze tomatoes, baigan, garlic, katahar, cooked bodi, cut up carrilie etc. even green fig i freeze, casava is 12lb for $20 and i freeze about 20pounds already .

[MaxPower]

Team,

Can anyone please state where i said that was my bill?

If anyone noticed, that bill is not even from Massy.

The person making the purchase advised that it was Tru Value.

But for those concerned, i do shop at Massy to get the foreign stuff especially and if i needed tomatoes, and Massy had it, i would buy it as i have done in the past along with the other thousands that shop there.

Cheers.