Rambharat says Doubles is made of imported ingredients

[zoom rader]

If that's the case everything is imported....even you.
Allyuh really special.

Then kant Rambharat should keep his mouth shut

Dumb kant

[eliteauto]

I tort dog whistles waz only for elections yes... but consistency always wins.

Only when the dogs hear it

[Rovin]

ppl on fb saying this "issue" is a distraction from d vennys & other things that going orn in d country


if we want to support local then send all dem foreign fast foods outlets packing ... bet dat go never happen

[Redman]

Cassava flour doubles- cultural fusion,and a more local solution.

[Dizzy28]

Cassava flour doubles- cultural fusion,and a more local solution.

The lack of gluten in cassava flour you will end up with bammy with channa on top

[88sins]

Cassava flour doubles- cultural fusion,and a more local solution.

The lack of gluten in cassava flour you will end up with bammy with channa on top

somebody never had cassava bread.
The cassava flour would stick together & make a bara, is the starch in the juices that would make it stick together. But it have some issues.
Hadda grate yuh own cassava (cyah buy nuttn dry in a bag to add water that would work). and the next problem it go either be real stiff & cyah bend if it too thick, & if it too thin it will break when yuh fold it.

might taste alright, cassava starch have a lil sweetness to it

[Dizzy28]

Cassava flour doubles- cultural fusion,and a more local solution.

The lack of gluten in cassava flour you will end up with bammy with channa on top

somebody never had cassava bread.
The cassava flour would stick together & make a bara, is the starch in the juices that would make it stick together. But it have some issues.
Hadda grate yuh own cassava (cyah buy nuttn dry in a bag to add water that would work). and the next problem it go either be real stiff & cyah bend if it too thick, & if it too thin it will break when yuh fold it.

might taste alright, cassava starch have a lil sweetness to it

I not saying you wouldn't get a bara. You just wouldn't get the texture of a wheat flour bara with cassava which is a critical component of a good bara. The rise to get the puffy bara which subsequently flattens when all the bara is placed in a bowl or box.

[88sins]

Dizzy boi dat go be one HEAVY box if it full of cassava, doubles men go hadda walk with cherry picker, or risk long stones trying to lift it when they setting up
One of the appeal to flour bara from the vendors perspective is the little amount of dough actually needed to make a bara.
i doubt anybody would be able to replicate that with cassava

[Gladiator]

Kant Clarence let the 1% KFC pass

Maybe because their chicken is supplied by......who?

What about Churches, Popeyes, Burger King, StarBucks, Pizza Hut, Domino's... in addition to all their imported ingredients they have to pay franchise fees in USD... but I guess they healthier than doubles... well according to PNM standards.

[zoom rader]

Kant Clarence let the 1% KFC pass

Maybe because their chicken is supplied by......who?

What about Churches, Popeyes, Burger King, StarBucks, Pizza Hut, Domino's... in addition to all their imported ingredients they have to pay franchise fees in USD... but I guess they healthier than doubles... well according to PNM standards.

Clarence made a right Kant of himself by attacking injun business

[pugboy]

i wonder if french fries consumption is more usd wise than doubles ingredients

[Dizzy28]

i wonder if french fries consumption is more usd wise than doubles ingredients

You can get trade data for products from Trade Map https://www.trademap.org/
In 2019 we imported US$27.32m under the HS heading wheat and meslin whilst we imported US$11m under the heading Potatoes fresh or chilled except seeds

But not all flour is used for doubles just like not all potatoes are used as fries.

Probably would require lots of market research to actually know

[pugboy]

fries are processed so i think they might fall under a diff category vs raw flour and potatoes

[88sins]

Anyhow you look at it, we import too much food and really need to address this.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Question is how bai sins bai....how??? Adopt the harsh approach of just putting an end to the importation of some stuff?? Shrugs shoulders

[Redman]

Maybe you should get his speech, or discuss what his point actually was before you go off on a tangent to the point of stupidity.

Kant Clarence let the 1% KFC pass

Maybe because their chicken is supplied by......who?

What about Churches, Popeyes, Burger King, StarBucks, Pizza Hut, Domino's... in addition to all their imported ingredients they have to pay franchise fees in USD... but I guess they healthier than doubles... well according to PNM standards.

[pugboy]

we should be making sweet potato and cassava fries
they are quite decent and I would take those over the imported ones

[Rovin]

sweet potato chips does taste good

remember when ur mom or grandma used to make some big slices of sweet potato & fry it , bess , dem chirrem nowadays must be eh know bout dat cause their parents too lazy so all they know is kfc fries

ppl on d whole too lazy to cook , u cud buy buy a bag of potato or s\potato fries & store in d fridge - or slice up 2lb ah aloo , simply pass by hilo or pricesmart & buy a already cooked rotisserie chicken for $50 & 2 bake for dinner instead of kfc or fast food so often ...

[sMASH]

If they just raise the exchange rate, thst will eliminate all this nitpicking. Who want to import will think twice, and make local produce automatically more competitive.

[Gladiator]

Maybe you should get his speech, or discuss what his point actually was before you go off on a tangent to the point of stupidity.

Kant Clarence let the 1% KFC pass

Maybe because their chicken is supplied by......who?

What about Churches, Popeyes, Burger King, StarBucks, Pizza Hut, Domino's... in addition to all their imported ingredients they have to pay franchise fees in USD... but I guess they healthier than doubles... well according to PNM standards.

Won't waste my time with a response.... stupidity defines the blind PNM supporters such as you

[Rovin]

as we talking about importing looky here ... d single biggest importer claiming foreign exchange becoming less accessible to them

https://www.facebook.com/PriceSmartTT/p ... 175791266/

[pugboy]

they will have to raise it a lot to cause an effect
we are hooked on those imported items just like a smoker is addicted to nicotine

If they just raise the exchange rate, thst will eliminate all this nitpicking. Who want to import will think twice, and make local produce automatically more competitive.

[mero]

Rambharat injun license get revoke dey yes

[paid_influencer]

If they just raise the exchange rate, thst will eliminate all this nitpicking. Who want to import will think twice, and make local produce automatically more competitive.

agree completely. Right now we subsidizing the foreign exchange and letting bankers and businessmen decide who gets the benefits. KFC, Pricesmart, etc, getting full support at the subsidized rate while the doubles man and home cooks getting beat down for using flour, oil and channa.

My Prime Minister, Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning, the greatest Prime Minister this country has ever had, had floated the exchange rate. This discussion about foreign exchange and devaluation should never have happened again - the dollar was supposed to move in the context of T&T being an open economy in a global market. Manning would be turning in his grave if he knew in 2020 what PNM economic policy would morph into.

[zoom rader]

Rambharat injun license get revoke dey yes

He was never injun

[88sins]

If they just raise the exchange rate, thst will eliminate all this nitpicking. Who want to import will think twice, and make local produce automatically more competitive.

Yeah, right, dat go wuk.
To cause the price of everything to skyrocket to the degree that the lower class would end up the under the ground class.
What plenty ppl not aware of, is how much perceived "local produce" is actually produced locally. So look a lil dose of current reality.

Bananas can and does grow quite well here, yet upwards of 90% of the bananas consumed here are imported. This didn't come about by happenstance. It's the way it is because local demand exceeded local supply and the imported stock are of a perceived higher quality. Almost the same goes for provision, if you eat dasheen recently, is a 80% chance it wasn't grown here.

Have to fix that problem with the insufficient local home grown supply before you take the steps to discourage imports. If not, is problems for not only the small man, is problems for everyone, because tho local food might be a more attractive option cost wise, the laws of supply and demand will kick in sooner or later those prices will go up, and imports will start to be more attractive again.

Hadda make sure that the horse is in front of the cart, not the cart in front of the horse.

[teems1]

If they just raise the exchange rate, thst will eliminate all this nitpicking. Who want to import will think twice, and make local produce automatically more competitive.

Yeah, right, dat go wuk.
To cause the price of everything to skyrocket to the degree that the lower class would end up the under the ground class.
What plenty ppl not aware of, is how much perceived "local produce" is actually produced locally. So look a lil dose of current reality.

Bananas can and does grow quite well here, yet upwards of 90% of the bananas consumed here are imported. This didn't come about by happenstance. It's the way it is because local demand exceeded local supply and the imported stock are of a perceived higher quality. Almost the same goes for provision, if you eat dasheen recently, is a 80% chance it wasn't grown here.

Have to fix that problem with the insufficient local home grown supply before you take the steps to discourage imports. If not, is problems for not only the small man, is problems for everyone, because tho local food might be a more attractive option cost wise, the laws of supply and demand will kick in sooner or later those prices will go up, and imports will start to be more attractive again.

Hadda make sure that the horse is in front of the cart, not the cart in front of the horse.

it's called tariffs and are in use by nearly every country

[pugboy]

I feel is more like 99% of bananas are imported and quite possibly around the world too

Bananas are a special case though, they are highly susceptible to disease and the end result is all the bananas are pretty much the same strain that so far disease resistant.

The other side of the banana story is the industry highly monopolized and contract controlled in a similar manner to how chicken farmers here are usually tied to a big producer.

[sMASH]

If they just raise the exchange rate, thst will eliminate all this nitpicking. Who want to import will think twice, and make local produce automatically more competitive.

Yeah, right, dat go wuk.
To cause the price of everything to skyrocket to the degree that the lower class would end up the under the ground class.
What plenty ppl not aware of, is how much perceived "local produce" is actually produced locally. So look a lil dose of current reality.

Bananas can and does grow quite well here, yet upwards of 90% of the bananas consumed here are imported. This didn't come about by happenstance. It's the way it is because local demand exceeded local supply and the imported stock are of a perceived higher quality. Almost the same goes for provision, if you eat dasheen recently, is a 80% chance it wasn't grown here.

Have to fix that problem with the insufficient local home grown supply before you take the steps to discourage imports. If not, is problems for not only the small man, is problems for everyone, because tho local food might be a more attractive option cost wise, the laws of supply and demand will kick in sooner or later those prices will go up, and imports will start to be more attractive again.

Hadda make sure that the horse is in front of the cart, not the cart in front of the horse.

it's called tariffs and are in use by nearly every country

our problem is not with outside competition, where we need to discourage some dumping. when u do tariffs, who will say what gets how much? u might get a 10% increase in luxury vehicle imports and a 100% in basic food items, via an all out food tariff.

our problem is not only with competition. our problem is our supply of forex is way less than the demand for it. that 'managed' rate of 6.7? is unreal. that method of rationing it is corrupt where some connected people will have an unfair advantage. so tanty who have a clothes store will not get enough to remain open, but farouq from persia will get to bring down 20 porshce and bmw... that is unfair and a waste of spending.

and, the reason why local produce cant compete with foreign imports is because the big importers getting the US cheap, so they coudl afford to price the foreign produce on level with local.



wrt the price, yes, it will be a big jump, so u have to do it like they did with the fuel, piece by piece inch it up. prolly do sumting now, to just over 7, then in a 9mths to 1 year a 7.3 and then a next 6 mths a 7.8... ease the price up.


pnm have the population living in a fools paradise by keeping that exchange rate so low. is like the kitchen on fire so u close the door so nobody will see the commotion.





i thinking we so badly off, that the safer thing for citizens is just to pause the TT and switch to US for the time being.. like what zimbabwe had to do.
but the exchange rate is how gortt makes money off of the citizens, so they would not.

[apole69]

The majority of imported foodstuff is subsidised.
Local farmers aren't.