Why in the world?

[crosscountry]

And I do mean in the world: do avocados cost more in Germany than in St. Louis?

I just ate a delicious avocado that I bought last week and let ripen. Now I'm wondering why it was cheaper here to buy it than last year in the US.:surprised

[Kullat Nunu]

I remember my teacher told she bought Finnish butter in the US... with considerably lower price than here in Finland. Heck, it is told that Finlandia Vodka is cheaper in the South Pole than in Finland.

[Ronald Brak]

I remember my teacher told she bought Finnish butter in the US... with considerably lower price than here in Finland. Heck, it is told that Finlandia Vodka is cheaper in the South Pole than in Finland.

Strange, but every country seems to have stories about their own butter being cheaper in other countries. There was a crazy old man in Toowoomba who used to go on about Australian butter being cheaper overseas, but then Australia used to dump all sorts of agricutural products on the overseas markets. It's possible that butter was one of them. Eggs, definitely. We used to have poultry inspectors going around making sure farmers didn't have too many chickens because the country couldn't afford to dump so many cheap eggs on the Asian market. We eventually gave up and are now giving the free market a go. Well, it's a mostly free market. Occaisionally it pops in for a for a bit of bondage with the wheat board, sugar tariffs and so on.

[crosscountry]

I remember my teacher told she bought Finnish butter in the US... with considerably lower price than here in Finland. Heck, it is told that Finlandia Vodka is cheaper in the South Pole than in Finland.



that's probably true. Any liquor in Finnland is more than any liquor in the rest of the world.