Food Prices (1980)
Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon done 30 years ago in 1980. Israel is a small country surrounded by markets that boycott our products and that won't sell us theirs. We are largely tied to the seasonal harvests in our own country as to what's in our vegetable shops and on sale in our open air markets. Thirty years ago we had a strawberry crisis. Which was the reason for today's Golden Oldie.
Labels: 1980, Boycott, Economy, Food, Food Prices, Inflation
6 Comments:
An interesting point, not often remarked upon. Does the produce market still fluctuate like that these days?
A tomato crisis, not a strawberry crisis.
Remember how the farmers would crush the fresh-picked tomatoes with their tractors? Less product meant a higher price to the consumers.
But what Israeli could do without tomatoes? What's a salat, without tomatoes??
The tomatoes were like gold... I had a bet with my grocer for a kilo if my dog would eat an onion... if he didn't I would have to pay for it... my husband started to chicken out... but the dog ate it... and the grocer gave us a 1/2 kilo... quite a salad celebration! thanks for the memories...
Deb, just to let you know, onions are toxic for dogs. I assume your dog was OK, which I am glad about, but for future reference, please don't feed dogs onions!
onions arent good for dogs too?.and chocolates too, arent it?..my mom has also cutting down the use of tomatoes to our dishes...
no no no.. dogs never eat onions.
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