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You all are disingenuous and it shows, the vulnerable ones are not in the avenue on weekends they are suffering to pay rent and food. Alluh not frequenting the places that those mose affected by these price wages are and casting judgment on them.hover11 wrote:All this talk about flour increase. I have to laugh because by next week the Avenue full of people liming, drinking and having a good time. There goes the talk about flour because trinis have 7 day memory. Carnival band launch still happening next month and costumes selling for 2023. Fetes will still sell out as usual so flour increase, decrease, government come government go trinis only talk and don't take anything seriously. Anyway, what's the latest with the divers? See what I mean
nemisis wrote:You all are disingenuous and it shows, the vulnerable ones are not in the avenue on weekends they are suffering to pay rent and food. Alluh not frequenting the places that those mose affected by these price wages are and casting judgment on them.hover11 wrote:All this talk about flour increase. I have to laugh because by next week the Avenue full of people liming, drinking and having a good time. There goes the talk about flour because trinis have 7 day memory. Carnival band launch still happening next month and costumes selling for 2023. Fetes will still sell out as usual so flour increase, decrease, government come government go trinis only talk and don't take anything seriously. Anyway, what's the latest with the divers? See what I mean
gastly369 wrote:For the regular doubles patrons seeing some men prices up to $10 already
Now for a 2 bite finger food it's costly but at the same time almost everything that's used to make it has almost tripled would u buy a doubles for $10 still?
I don't usually eat prob between last year and this year had a total of about 12 doubles.
j.o.e wrote:gastly369 wrote:For the regular doubles patrons seeing some men prices up to $10 already
Now for a 2 bite finger food it's costly but at the same time almost everything that's used to make it has almost tripled would u buy a doubles for $10 still?
I don't usually eat prob between last year and this year had a total of about 12 doubles.
I don’t buy doubles for more than $5 it’s not a boycott or a tote. More than $5 is just not value for money for me especially since I don’t even crave it.
dogg wrote:j.o.e wrote:gastly369 wrote:For the regular doubles patrons seeing some men prices up to $10 already
Now for a 2 bite finger food it's costly but at the same time almost everything that's used to make it has almost tripled would u buy a doubles for $10 still?
I don't usually eat prob between last year and this year had a total of about 12 doubles.
I don’t buy doubles for more than $5 it’s not a boycott or a tote. More than $5 is just not value for money for me especially since I don’t even crave it.
What are the other options at $5, $6 or $7?
j.o.e wrote:
The way I see it, is that at $5 I may eat 3-4 doubles and that’s a deal portion wise.
Once 4 doubles getting to be $24 or more there are tastier and more filling options.
Also I don’t rely on doubles for regular breakfast/ lunch. More of a weekend treat. I could get a roti, pies, burger etc for that
dogg wrote:j.o.e wrote:
The way I see it, is that at $5 I may eat 3-4 doubles and that’s a deal portion wise.
Once 4 doubles getting to be $24 or more there are tastier and more filling options.
Also I don’t rely on doubles for regular breakfast/ lunch. More of a weekend treat. I could get a roti, pies, burger etc for that
wayzz... Nah bro. 3 or 4??
On the occasion I do partake, ONE doubles is my limit. OR a small cup of channa.
I have to be drunk or starving to eat more.
2 Doubles for breakfast and I not eating again til dinner.
I'm now starting to understand why folks complaining about doubles price increasing - they eat too much of it per sitting.
dogg wrote:j.o.e wrote:
The way I see it, is that at $5 I may eat 3-4 doubles and that’s a deal portion wise.
Once 4 doubles getting to be $24 or more there are tastier and more filling options.
Also I don’t rely on doubles for regular breakfast/ lunch. More of a weekend treat. I could get a roti, pies, burger etc for that
wayzz... Nah bro. 3 or 4??
On the occasion I do partake, ONE doubles is my limit. OR a small cup of channa.
I have to be drunk or starving to eat more.
2 Doubles for breakfast and I not eating again til dinner.
I'm now starting to understand why folks complaining about doubles price increasing - they eat too much of it per sitting.
nick639v2 wrote:nemisis wrote:You all are disingenuous and it shows, the vulnerable ones are not in the avenue on weekends they are suffering to pay rent and food. Alluh not frequenting the places that those mose affected by these price wages are and casting judgment on them.hover11 wrote:All this talk about flour increase. I have to laugh because by next week the Avenue full of people liming, drinking and having a good time. There goes the talk about flour because trinis have 7 day memory. Carnival band launch still happening next month and costumes selling for 2023. Fetes will still sell out as usual so flour increase, decrease, government come government go trinis only talk and don't take anything seriously. Anyway, what's the latest with the divers? See what I mean
Correct! Real righteous ppl out here.
Then they wanna bring up healthier eating and lifestyle, pack of BS. People literally on survival mode out there with empty belly. Does feel to hit ppl some hard slap… The privileged kale salad is not worth more than a quarter Roti with fry aloo.
Rovin wrote:what can citizens do about gas, flour increase or everything increasing but get shocked at 1st, mumble & then cope with it
& dont tell me sh1t bout protest cause these 2 parties always have d country racially divided & half of us will grumble while d next half staying quiet cause da party whichever 1 u supporting is we kinda ppl so cyar go against we own doh mind we suffering, we going down wrong\strong .... race , politics & partying b4 country ...
Anything local is expensiveRovin wrote:Namdevco & others online says root crop flour, like cassava and sweet potato flour are available at their various farmers' markets but at 4-5 times d price of wheat flour is out of reach for most ppl ...
As max and zoom say , trinis to happydaring dragoon wrote:gas went up everyone beyotch an complain and yet people taking they family for pointless drive on a sunday. no ease up in traffic on any day or time so flour going up will be met with bump gum and business as usual next week. rum go up same thing, cigarette go up same thing, fast food go up and people will still buy. police sharing tickets and demerit points an people still drive like arse. so nothing changes in T&T except the weather.
A Very Stupid Trini Wheat Idea...
If you ask the typical person what BH1224, is they will not know. It is actually the strain of sugar cane that was planted on the majority of the cane fields in Trinidad and Tobago. It did not have the highest sucrose content, but it was extremely popular because it was one type that proved very resistant to pest and disease attacks...
The preceding paragraph is just a sequeway to explain that Trinidad and Tobago was once a place where significant plant and animal testing and modification occurred. We produced our own cane, cocoa, coffee and even animal hybrids and many of those decades long experiments were succesful in context. Children of the eighties will recall something called the Buffalypso...
More than that, it is a historical fact that cocoa plants modified and produced in Trinidad in the early twentieth century under what was then the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (UWI) were later transported and transplanted to West African countries like Nigeria and Ghana where they helped to boost the local cocoa industries, turning them into dominant world players in cocoa to this day...
Now all of this has been a long run up to promote a very stupid idea. We are addicted to wheat; we love it. Asking Trinbagonians to convert to channa or dasheen or cassava flour overnight is both costly and impractical. What I would be doing is using some of that aweet UWI MONEY we spend every year to do something practical like modifying a strain of wheat to grow in the hot sun. Do we have scientists here? Hello....
On the surface this is a very simple and ridiculous idea but think about it. Every single food that we eat today, either plant or animal based, is the end result of millennia of man made or artificial selection. Conversely wheat is a grass like cane and we have had a long history interfering with that. And in a world where food scarcity might become more normal than we might hope or wish, what does it hurt to try? Really...
Trinbagonians even in the midst of all of that colonial brainwashing used to be a people capable of BIG IDEAS and solutions. Now we pitch so low, we trip and fall on cut grass. It is time for us to think big again...
And I done...
Nobody planting anything hereDizzy28 wrote:Even if we did find a strain of tropical wheat what makes him think we would grow it at a competitive price? We can grow sugar cane here but yet imported US$32m in cane or beet sugar in 2021. Our sugar came from countries a much low cost of production - Colombia, Guatemala and Belize and more than likely any tropical wheat strain ever developed will be able to be grown at much lower costs in countries like those as well.
Kickstart wrote:As max and zoom say , trinis to happydaring dragoon wrote:gas went up everyone beyotch an complain and yet people taking they family for pointless drive on a sunday. no ease up in traffic on any day or time so flour going up will be met with bump gum and business as usual next week. rum go up same thing, cigarette go up same thing, fast food go up and people will still buy. police sharing tickets and demerit points an people still drive like arse. so nothing changes in T&T except the weather.
nick639v2 wrote:IMG_1828.JPGA Very Stupid Trini Wheat Idea...
If you ask the typical person what BH1224, is they will not know. It is actually the strain of sugar cane that was planted on the majority of the cane fields in Trinidad and Tobago. It did not have the highest sucrose content, but it was extremely popular because it was one type that proved very resistant to pest and disease attacks...
The preceding paragraph is just a sequeway to explain that Trinidad and Tobago was once a place where significant plant and animal testing and modification occurred. We produced our own cane, cocoa, coffee and even animal hybrids and many of those decades long experiments were succesful in context. Children of the eighties will recall something called the Buffalypso...
More than that, it is a historical fact that cocoa plants modified and produced in Trinidad in the early twentieth century under what was then the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (UWI) were later transported and transplanted to West African countries like Nigeria and Ghana where they helped to boost the local cocoa industries, turning them into dominant world players in cocoa to this day...
Now all of this has been a long run up to promote a very stupid idea. We are addicted to wheat; we love it. Asking Trinbagonians to convert to channa or dasheen or cassava flour overnight is both costly and impractical. What I would be doing is using some of that aweet UWI MONEY we spend every year to do something practical like modifying a strain of wheat to grow in the hot sun. Do we have scientists here? Hello....
On the surface this is a very simple and ridiculous idea but think about it. Every single food that we eat today, either plant or animal based, is the end result of millennia of man made or artificial selection. Conversely wheat is a grass like cane and we have had a long history interfering with that. And in a world where food scarcity might become more normal than we might hope or wish, what does it hurt to try? Really...
Trinbagonians even in the midst of all of that colonial brainwashing used to be a people capable of BIG IDEAS and solutions. Now we pitch so low, we trip and fall on cut grass. It is time for us to think big again...
And I done...
K74T wrote:Kiss to increase price of its bread products by an average of 11% from July 1st 2022.
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daring dragoon wrote:I waiting on kiss to bring back the shop loaf it had in the early 90's. Smaller bread smaller money. I looking forward to eating chicken on a sunday only an kfc/chinese food/any fast food probably once a year together with soda only at christmas time. I looking forward to all them tanty in the village coming together to cook for hindu prayers over the cathering nonsense that goes on now. I just looking for life to return to the 80's where cars have to be ordered and months before delivery, less cars on the road,
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