Have you ever spent $476 on one item in a grocery store?

[Carson Dyle]

I was grocery shopping last night at a nearby King Soopers (owned by Kroger). Nice store, but fairly run-o-the-mill. I was surprised to see 1/2 wheels of imported Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano. There were about five or six of them out on a table, along with smaller one or two pound blocks. I thought to myself "Those can't be for sale, can they?" But I picked one up, turned it over and sure enough, there was a price label on it. $19.something per pound, the price was $476.

 

[shortylickens]

Nope.

But I am smart enough to know that champagne isnt supposed to get warm.
Nothing more annoying than seeing Dom Pérignon sitting out on the shelf. Shit costs at least one hundred dollars. Stupid fucktards!

 

[rbV5]

$1500 for a money order a couple of times.

 

[ponyo]

Yes, several times. Wild ginseng prices are around $300-400 a pound. I also buy box of king crab legs from Costco several times a year. 20lb box is about $380. I've seen it as high as $480.

 

[DCal430]

Yes, several times. Wild ginseng prices are around $300-400 a pound. I also buy box of king crab legs from Costco several times a year. 20lb box is about $380. I've seen it as high as $480.

Why do you need 20lbs of Crab?

 

[Rakehellion]

When you're not poor you're able to have expensive taste.

Protip for when you upgrade to middle class: Cheddar cheese is better than American. Splurge on it some day.

 

[Leros]

I assume they eventually cut them into smaller pieces and resell them. I wonder if anybody buys the giant blocks.

 

[nageov3t]

I assume they eventually cut them into smaller pieces and resell them. I wonder if anybody buys the giant blocks.

that would be my guess as well... otherwise, I can't imagine why the store would buy them in the first place.

keep them out for awhile as a display piece, then cut them or grate them and re-sell in smaller portions.

 

[lxskllr]

Wegmans has truffles for $1k per pound. I never bought any. I don't know what to do with truffles.

 

[Carson Dyle]

You know those quick-hit shoplifting jobs you always hear about in the news? It's 3:00 AM, someone distracts the one or two guys working, while someone else fills a cart with crab legs and scoots out the door? I know what I'd be grabbing instead: six $500 wheels of cheese.

 

[Rakehellion]

You know those quick-hit shoplifting jobs you always hear about in the news? It's 3:00 AM, someone distracts the one or two guys working, while someone else fills a cart with crab legs and scoots out the door? I know what I'd be grabbing instead: six $500 wheels of cheese.

That would be so hot you couldn't sell it. Except maybe in Mexico.

 

[kranky]

Given the end game is to convert to cash, I think the cheese would be a lot harder to move than crab legs.

 

[Carson Dyle]

That would be so hot you couldn't sell it. Except maybe in Mexico.

You think they chip them?

Best bet is to probably break them up into quarter lbs and sell 'em on a street corner in Baltimore.

 

[Leros]

Given the end game is to convert to cash, I think the cheese would be a lot harder to move than crab legs.

Not sure about that. The cheese comes in rounds, so you could just roll them around. Not sure how you could make the crab legs move unless you build some kind of robotic walker thing.

 

[Leros]

You think they chip them?

Best bet is to probably break them up into quarter lbs and sell 'em on a street corner in Baltimore.

Find some back alley in the italian district. Makes sense to me.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Given the end game is to convert to cash, I think the cheese would be a lot harder to move than crab legs.

Around here we don't have many Italian restaurants (and zero good ones), but in Jersey or New York, you could instantly sell that stuff at the back door of most Italian restaurants.

 

[MongGrel]

Given the end game is to convert to cash, I think the cheese would be a lot harder to move than crab legs.

The crab legs have a shorter lifespan to move em though.

And no I haven't, but back in the early 80's I used to go lobster netting with my Hawaiian in laws at the time.

We'd do pretty well hitting a few stores at the time and they'd buy up the big guys we were selling.

A couple sounded skeptical about moving em, we were catching 10# + ones at the time, but the stores later said they sold out pretty fast and wanted more.

We didn't even have a license at the time, we were kinda the lobster Mafia

We'd always cook up 4 or 5 for ourselves too, he he.

Until I married my first wife and was actually a family member, they wouldn't even take me out and show me what they were up to at the time.

Too bad she got stupid and ran off on me 4 or 5 years later, has been her misfortune.

 

[alkemyst]

Nope.

But I am smart enough to know that champagne isnt supposed to get warm.
Nothing more annoying than seeing Dom Pérignon sitting out on the shelf. Shit costs at least one hundred dollars. Stupid fucktards!

Short term storage. Ideally it should be stored at around 50 degrees and on its side.

 

[MongGrel]

Bit much sorry, didn't mean to rattle on.

 

[alkemyst]

Why do you need 20lbs of Crab?

Some people have friends?

 

[mmntech]

Good Parmigiano-Reggiano imported from Italy is expensive. Though it's a bit of a mystery why it's sold in big wheels at the grocery store. I would think something like that would only appeal to restaurants. If you're just grating it, a big wedge lasts awhile.

 

[Grooveriding]

Crazy part is on a recent vacation we were in Italy and Spain. We always bring back a lot of cheese, olive oil and that sort of thing when we are there. Wheel of parmigiano reggiano = 50 euro, so about $75 Canadian is what it cost me.

Same sort of prices at the market in Barcelono on La Rambla. Although a leg of cured ham will run you about 150 euro.

We get fleeced on imported food. It can't cost that much to import container loads of cheese from Italy that it has to be marked up that much.

 

[phucheneh]

When you're not poor you're able to have expensive taste.

Protip for when you upgrade to middle class: Cheddar cheese is better than American. Splurge on it some day.

LMAO. Good joke.

Or are people actually stupid enough to try and lord self-proclaimed middle class status over others?

To be fair, I guess you ARE quickly becoming the '1%'. If we still have that much middle class left...

 

[phucheneh]

Crazy part is on a recent vacation we were in Italy and Spain. We always bring back a lot of cheese, olive oil and that sort of thing when we are there. Wheel of parmigiano reggiano = 50 euro, so about $75 Canadian is what it cost me.

Same sort of prices at the market in Barcelono on La Rambla. Although a leg of cured ham will run you about 150 euro.

We get fleeced on imported food. It can't cost that much to import container loads of cheese from Italy that it has to be marked up that much.

I'd be inclined to agree with that. I can see how things that would have to be kept cold would cost lots of money to ship.

But most of what you see is unrefrigerated cheeses and cured meats and the like, which should cost no more than an average boatload of ten cent plastic trinkets from China.

 

[SZLiao214]

Closest thing would be when i bought a TV at Costco.