Your Steak Will Come With Sticker Shock

[longknife]

We should've seen this coming. Droughts and generally bad weather thinning out beef herds. Price, availability, and demand – a basic rule of economics.

Come grilling season, expect your sirloin steak to come with a hearty side of sticker shock.

Beef prices have reached all-time highs in the U.S. and aren't expected to come down any time soon.

Extreme weather has thinned the nation's beef cattle herds to levels last seen in 1951, when there were about half as many mouths to feed in America.

And it doesn't appear to be getting any better!

Read more @ Beef prices hit all-time high in U.S. - latimes.com

 

[Sallow]

Grin and bear it.

And you are right. This will be getting worse. Much worse.

 

[Pennywise]

At the supermarket last week, 1 pound of Land O Lakes butter was $4.99.

Gasoline has not dipped below $3 in five years.

There's no inflation, all is well. Baghdad remains under the control of Sadam Hussein.

 

[Jughead]

I know beef tenderloin at my butcher now is $15/lb, and that's only if I buy the entire tenderloin!

 

[Mr. H.]

I know beef tenderloin at my butcher now is $15/lb, and that's only if I buy the entire tenderloin!

You frequent the tenderloin district?

 

[Jughead]

I know beef tenderloin at my butcher now is $15/lb, and that's only if I buy the entire tenderloin!

You frequent the tenderloin district?

which one, SF or NY?

 

[Politico]

Beef is havng a bad year. It happens.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

How're pork prices?

I can live on pork chops if I have to.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Almost all food is going to go up in prices over the next couple of years.

Why? Because there are droughts in places where they don't need them, and floods in places that they don't need them as well.

Face it.............global climate change is real, and if we don't fix it soon, we're all fucked.

 

[Politico]

Pork is fine. Actually cheap right now.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Cool. I can deal with that. Bacon, sausage, pork chops, ribs...

I'll be fine.

 

[Politico]

I make all my own sausage and pepperoni. If you need any recipes let me know.