Friday evenings I always make a big roasted extravaganza involving sweet potatoes and roasted Brussels, carrots and parsnips. To be honest I never look at the price of things like this because I just expect them to fluctuate between a couple of reasonable levels. I mean they're just friggin vegetables. 
 
So I bought this many parsnips:
 

 
The price? SIX EFFING DOLLARS AND FIFTY EIGHT FRIGGIN CENTS. 
$6.58
 
$2.99/lb
 
I'm pretty sure a bag of parsnips should cost about the same as a bag of carrots. 
 
My sweet potatoes were a ripoff as well. $6.62 for two small ones. Has there been some kind of biblical crop disaster that I didn't hear about? Please don't tell me it's the bee's fault. 
 
 

Was that rasher literally ripped right off the pig's face? 

A few years ago, I saw cauliflower for $4.58 and I couldn't believe it then.
 
Just this last month it was $5.99 and now just this week - yup - you guessed it $7.00.
 
7 effen dollars for one effen cauliflower! 
 
Looks like my bag of potato chips aren't such a bad deal after all. They never seem to go up.
 

You sure you didn't buy above parsnips? 

Parsnips, carrots, broccoli, sprouts, spuds & lettuce... from 29p each in Aldi this week. I'll send a box over for next Friday.
 

 
 

sharke
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The price? SIX EFFING DOLLARS AND FIFTY EIGHT FRIGGIN CENTS. 
$6.58
 
$2.99/lb
 
I'm pretty sure a bag of parsnips should cost about the same as a bag of carrots. 
 ...

I'm guessing that they went to China for a spray, then to Latin America for a pee, then to America for sale ... and you gotta pay for all that travelling?

sharke
 
 

 

There's enough material here to have kept Cyril Fletcher going for weeks
 
Never had a roasted sprout or a sweet potato, I must give them a try some time.
 
I do have plenty of experience sampling roast spuds and parsnips though  I always roast them together with a few halved onions, and sprinkled with sage leaves and plenty of black pepper.
 
MY daughter cooks a delightful dish of roasted courgettes, red onions and bell peppers, finished in a ragu and balsamic vinegar sauce and served with pasta. Grated cheese optional

SteveStrummerUK

sharke
 
 

 

There's enough material here to have kept Cyril Fletcher going for weeks
 
Never had a roasted sprout or a sweet potato, I must give them a try some time.
 
I do have plenty of experience sampling roast spuds and parsnips though  I always roast them together with a few halved onions, and sprinkled with sage leaves and plenty of black pepper.
 
MY daughter cooks a delightful dish of roasted courgettes, red onions and bell peppers, finished in a ragu and balsamic vinegar sauce and served with pasta. Grated cheese optional

I'm hungry ... you bringing lunch over? I'll bring the wine!

Moshkito

sharke
... 
The price? SIX EFFING DOLLARS AND FIFTY EIGHT FRIGGIN CENTS. 
$6.58
 
$2.99/lb
 
I'm pretty sure a bag of parsnips should cost about the same as a bag of carrots. 
 ...

I'm guessing that they went to China for a spray, then to Latin America for a pee, then to America for sale ... and you gotta pay for all that travelling?

You're definitely on to something Pedro.
 
I can see my runner beans growing in the farm one field over from me every year  Locally grown and fresh as feck can't be beat.
 
If I wasn't such a lazy sod, I'd turn over half my back garden to growing my own veg, herbs and salad items. I fondly recall my gran and granddads' large back garden was used to grow a lot of food, from my gran's herb garden (mainly mint) to the tomatoes in the greenhouse, to the spuds, cabbages, lettuce, shallots, onions, spring onions, runner beans, spinach, peas, broad beans, carrots and purple sprouting my granddad tended to at the top end.
 
I even remember my gran's brother, my 'Uncle' Ted, who lived a couple of doors away, still kept a pig each year which was killed shortly before Christmas.