 | USD prices per pound: Cativelli Sausage: 4.58 Panceta—bacon: 5.20 Chicken legs:1.51 Picada—lean ground beef: 2.28 Chicken Milanesa: 3.58 Nalga—top/bottom roast: 3.90 |
After ordering at our favorite carniceria (butcher shop), I realized I had no money. No problem, the owner said, taking my name and writing the amount on a strip of paper. The next day, I saw he had a stack of these slips over an inch high. Mine was someone near the middle, so obviously this is a common thing. Interesting.
How do these prices compare with current prices elsewhere?
I don't have a clue how they compare to US prices because I hardly ever buy that stuff. Beer? I can tell you that.
I have forwarded your list to several friends in Canada, seeking an answer to your question. Will forward any responses I receive.
Mark, I'll get back to you on that 😉
Being vegetarians, we don't worry about meat prices or meat at all! Are you going to have an organic farm? Or a farm?
I used to laugh when people asked our plans. Plans? It just seemed like money sitting in arable land made more sense than money sitting in a bank somewhere (then came Cyprus, and all that will follow its model). The wind and the rock-hard, impermeable soil present some challenges. We have some fruit trees, which need to be transplanted into mounds of some sort to give the roots a chance, and I'll be planting windbreak plants in the next couple months. I plan a greenhouse eventually. I didn't try too hard this summer, and just as well: it's been a horrible time for gardening.
Price comparisons from Vernon, BC, Canada (prices converted from metric to pounds and dollars from Canadian to US, so it is an accurate comparison): chorizo=$3.52/lb (-$1.06); bacon=$4.91/lb (-$0.29); chicken legs=$4.33/lb (+$2.82); lean ground beef=$4.51/lb (+$2.23); chicken milanesa – not available; roast=$5.86/lb (+$1.96).
Here are more prices from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Vancouver is the most expensive city in Canada in which to live. Below, is my answer to my friend who provided these prices. Converting all weights to pounds and dollars from Canadian to US, allows us to compare with the UY prices. You pay $1.89/lb less for the sausage. All other things you pay more. .We don´t have bacon. We only have panceta. The difference is a whopping $9.48/lb. Even comparing your bacon prices to our panceta prices, you pay $1.88/lb more.Chicken legs, $0.98/lb more.Lean ground beef, $2.52 more.Chicken breast, $3.00 moreRoast, $4.52 more.
Here are comparative prices from Toronto (but my correspondent did not get prices for the sausage or the chicken legs): panceta = $15.90/lb; lean ground beef = $4.50/lb; boneless chicken breast = $9.99/lb; Nalga = $7.00/lb
Wow Anonymous aka the poetry guy with all the dogs, thanks for this!
new england checking in…,,, you pay slightly more for bacon, chicken legs you pay less, hamburger slightly less, sausage about equal. overall. Im amazed you are that expensive….as I am fond of pointing out, living near atlantida and PDE is some of the highest average food prices versus living north near Chuy- butcher shops are cheaper, fruits and veggies are cheaper. its all cheaper living on the coast near the Brazil border. in some cases much much cheaper.