Goodbye cheap $1/ea donuts

I’m “very happy” about it. Let the true feelings out day.

 

Happy for you, but it’s $3.50 here in Orlando.
I have no idea what people minded a few years ago

 

Carbs? Good for runners.
At least you didn’t say girl

 

You're paying the local "snow bird" tax.....

 

Than why was it $2.75 last week, or is that your sarcasm emoji?

 

It may take no gas at all like in the 70’s to empty the Starbucks parking lot I walk by every morning. People spending probably $20 on average for luxuries. I will be “very happy.” Why, because this IS due to one very unqualified president, and it’s time for accountability. While with Biden the price of oil was not due to him. Which also whammies the maga lies.

 

We just got notification from our oil company that prices were rising, and to expect an increase with the next delivery due to the conflict

 

Not sure cheap doughnut thread is spot for this...but O.K.

Americans will stand for lots of things. Costly gasoline is not one of them.

This whole debacle may just turn into something.

 

An open strait and an emasculated Iran would be my guess.
I'm not sure that two years from now Americans will be more butt sore about high gas prices than we are now about pricing in April of 2024.

(2024 was higher..... )

 

More and more people are reaching the stage of if you can no longer cry, you laugh.

 

Well, there are many queer situations. So, not always easy to be "correct."

But, generally (?), a lady is always going to be a woman, but a woman is not necessarily a lady. My grandmother gave up trying to make me into a little lady when young, but I came around a bit when I hit teen years.
kris

 

"Fuel prices. USA is so spoiled"

If the donut discussion has ended, this is an interesting alternative. See this current global compilation:

Gasoline prices around the world, 02-Mar-2026 | GlobalPetrolPrices.com

(or post a different one here)

I doubt there is another global commodity with such a wide international range of prices. Many factors must be involved including govt subsidies, Pigovian taxation, and high (local) fuel delivery costs.

USA is in 'the middle' however well that might be defined. Seeing this tabulated data lights an urge to combine it with (gas vehicle) fleet sizes in each country to see what the global median driver pays. Take it further with vehicle miles driven differing among countries.

Ah but no. I am too easily drawn into such exercises, and other tasks call.

 

"Well, there are many queer situations."

Dropped the Q bomb.

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I wish we had stayed closer to food prices here. Restaurants seem to use a rule of thumb that food served must 3X exceed price of ingredients. All other operating costs must get covered. Or else ...

But consider that (wholesale) ingredient costs of donuts or bagels will rarely exceed $USD 0.10. They are opposite of 'loss leaders' (a common expression). They are 'gain leaders' (an uncommon expression). What up widat? I suppose that few to none will DIY donuts or bagels.

And so (there had to be an and so), food service markups have some connection to DIY aspirations.

 

"a coal ash problem" Noted. Narrower but more acute, a miners' black-lung problem.

Wider but we hope gentler, an inefficient energy per emitted CO2 problem.