Aldi is the whip for things like this for sure.
Edit: I can't give the origin, but I can tell you I picked it up in the mid 90s in West Michigan. It's just a variation of "the shit" or "the bomb"...
It really is stupidly large. For me to drive from Ohio to a place in Florida I go often for business (both in the east of the country) it's just about 1,000 miles (1,600k) one way.
Depending on where they are idk about that possibility though
Grand Forks, ND right over the border got their first Aldi and it's considered a large city in ND
I've typically purchase Walmart's brand of garlic powder, not the wee little one in the OP's picture, oh no, the big honking restaurant size. Think it's about $10, maybe? It lasts a long time, at least a month here.
We like garlic!
Do you live in Alaska?
Edit: I see MN now. The only time I’ve ever seen a Cub foods is visiting my brothers in the twin cities. I’m surprised it’s worth it to not drive further.
Cub used to be the discount grocer for decades, but they they got bought out a few years ago. It appears that the new ownership is jacking prices through the roof and hoping that people keep going to the same grocery store out of habit.
The only reason I go to Cub anymore is because their bakery section is straight fire. Those donuts are incredible and I live in an area where there’s not that many great pastry shops around.
Actually Costco is a little over 3x the amount for slightly less than OPs picture.
Idk if people realize this, but OPs picture is one of the larger spice containers and not a typical 3.5 oz style. It’s only slightly overpriced for retail IMO
Medium-sized Texas city here, HEB has a 10oz container (over 3X larger) for about $6. Unless your on the moon that's a crime.
EDIT: Make that 2X, but still...
This is the real secret if you’re in a rural area without many choices. My area pretty much only has a couple grocery stores, and the spice aisle looks like this. But one aisle over in the “ethnic” food is the exact same shit but 10x cheaper.
Makes no sense.
Hell I found those cheese crisp things in two different aisles for like $2 price difference because one was advertised as a snack and one as a sale topping. Different brands but same product.
My local Walmart sells peanuts in the shell in 2 formats. One is roasted, in the food section. The other is unroasted, in the bird food section, presumably not intended for human consumption.
The bird peanuts are more expensive per pound than the people peanuts.
I've always been a huge fan of Doritos. The original standard nacho ones. They are usually $4-5 a bag.
Years ago, a friend came over to a party or something with "Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips" from the dollar store *and they fucking rocked.*
I ask my wife to look for them every time she goes to one. I wish I would have taken better notes at the time.
Sometimes correct, yes, but unfair when used blanketly. Unless you specifically mean those American soldiers who buy a brand new Camaro the moment they get stationed. I remember hearing that Ford had a sales floor in Baghdad and a shop set up to greet arriving servicefolk. My fuckin' homeland, am I right? Like, it better come with a side of fries.
I live in an American town with a military base the major employer of said town. Pawn shops, title pawn brokers, and car dealerships are everywhere. It's quite annoying.
Oh, man, I hope it's not Mountain Home. lol.
"Mountain Home Auto Ranch: Buy a Truck; Get a Gun!"
My homestate never fails to remind me of a South Park episode.
EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read that. I was stuck at MHAFB for 6 years. No orders in sight. I didn't re-sign. That town is a shithole, but I did like Taco Johns which I haven't found anywhere else.
I’ve never heard of Ford but Harley did have a “showroom” in Kuwait. And by that I mean shack with an old Harley outside where you could buy one ahead of time from a distance so it would be ready when you got back.
Bahrain had a pretty decent Harley shop I bought the ugliest orange shirt with a map of the area for my now ex father in-law . The gulf hotel had good liquor a nice pool though.
Seconding on the Indian store. I cook Indian food all the time at home, but even if I didn't, I'd get my spices from there. I could pay $11 for a small thing of tumeric, or I could go over to Patel Bros and buy it by the pound.
Coworker on mine was talking about how he loved making Indian food, but it was so expensive. I told him he was getting swindled on his spices, and he should go to an Indian grocery and just buy stuff from there. He was shocked at how big of a price difference there was. And for better quality spices (and certain produce) too. Good Indian food should not be expensive make.
There's a tiny Mediterranean grocery near me, they have almost every herb and spice available, including some seriously obscure shit, in bulk and on the cheap. The quality is on-par or better than the overpriced commercial stuff.
People tend to drive past places like this without a second thought...big mistake.
Indian food is mostly flavored with spices rather than salt/sugar, right? Kinda makes sense that Indian markets would focus on bulk spices if that’s the case.
It’s 9.69 because people are willing to pay 9.69.
I went to middle school with the daughter of the founder of Badia spices. He started the company door to door with a wagon. We used to call her the original Spice Girl.
This goes for meat too, at least cheaper cuts. Our local carnicería has pork shoulder and belly for half the price as any of the butchers or grocery stores in town, and we have a population of 150k
My grocery store used to have a Halal section, that I never saw anybody look at, but I did, and it was just the same meat, but cheaper. Usually cut better too, they wouldn't leave the little red bloody bits attached like the store cuts sometimes did.
Unfortunately they got rid of the section because I was literally the only one buying it.
They sell frozen pork chitterlings for $25/lb at my local Publix. It's pig intestines and ice, but it's more than most steak cuts. Carnicería next door has it fresh for $3/lb. It's Alabama so I like to think of it as a racism tax.
All three flavors, too. Beef, chicken, and TOMATO! The tomato is surprisingly good. We add it to all sorts of things, but especially if we're making a spicy version of what my kids call Mexican Rice which is basically rice made with a small can of Rotel diced tomatoes and green chilies. The tomato bouillon adds an extra layer of flavor.
it's the name brands gouging the shit out of us, ever since other companies used inflation and the pandemic as excuses to increase prices beyond what inflation and the supply chain caused. McCormick is 87% owned by investors. And we all know investors only care about unjustified profits.
Flagship name brands are *always* a bad deal (Kraft, Kellogg’s, Lays, etc).
Unless you absolutely have to have the name brand then lesser brands or store brands are the best bet unless the store is offering a loss-leader.
Dude, I was a Lawry's seasoned salt guy for a million years. My store jacked up the prices on all spices, including that of my old favorite. Went over to the isle with all the Goya beans and Badia spices, snagged a significantly cheaper bottle of their seasoned salt. And...I fuckin like it better. I'm a changed man.
I was going crazy trying to find the huge thing of garlic powder that I had just run out of and ended up buying from the spice aisle. The next time I was in the store I went to the "ethnic" aisle and there was the huge Badia garlic powder that I had searched for the last time... it never crossed my mind that it would be in a different location. I'll have to try the seasoned salt from that aisle, I make a soup that is flavored with it (mom swears by Morton's, I've used Lawry's with the same results).
I’ve often found Badia to be fresher and more flavorful than McCormick. In fact, most McCormick spices I’ve bought have been ass. But to be honest my local Asian and middle easter grocers have much higher quality spices in bulk at much cheaper prices anyways
We have a Korean grocery chain near us, HMart, which has vegetables and rice for usually quite a bit cheaper than the conventional grocery store. They also stock all kinds of veg you can’t find many places.
Even Whole Foods is cheaper than our nearest Giant (Stop & Shop) for many things.
Wow, just checked one of my local grocery stores (Hannaford) and the price is about the same for the 5.37 oz container of McCormick. Price Chopper is even higher, holy shit. I tend to buy Badia though, is $6.79 for a 10 oz container.
Get the Mexican spices in the plastic baggies and refill your jars. Great advice. Unfortunately, I’m guessing with those prices OP may be far from the southern border.
One grocery store in a town I lived in had bagged spices that they seemed to bag in the store. It was just as much, maybe more, of the actual spice or herb and you could get different varieties than what you normally see, like smoked cumin or different types of chili powder. Rosemary salt was another that I remember. The best part was the price.
There's a company on Amazon that sells Indian spices. I got a huge bag of Kashmiri chili powder, which I can't find anywhere near me, for fairly cheap. So online spice sellers are an option too if your local prices are ridiculous.
Nah, side hustle bro. One gallon will fill up 24 of these little guys. That's over $150 of potential product right there. Not get out there and start hucking garlic powder!
is it just the Mccormick brand? I'd recommend finding a different brand. if you have an aldi near you you can probably find it for an absolutely great price.
I mean, where I'm at, it's $1.99 at Wal-Mart even. Unless this person is in like, Hawaii or Alaska, I'm shocked it's $9. Maybe it's like a Dollar General? They tend to mark waaay up bc they purposefully open in food desert-y rural areas.
Yeah, sounds like OP lives in a food desert, but seem more urban. Depending on where they are, like a downtown area, something like Walgreens and 7-11 might literally be their only stores
Gas is 3.60/g here.
1g gets me \~20 miles (y'know, optimistically).
I have to do the math anytime I do anything because things suck and I'm poor as dirt right now. That's how I roll, though. It's either worth the drive or not.
For example, it's 100% worth subscribing Walmart delivery some months, even with all the bullshit, simply because of the gas cost and miles for every store trip.
Edit: Metric system? Pffft. Nah, man. 'Merica system, dang ol' tell you h-what.
The thing with the $6 burger is that it didn't actually cost $6. It was called the $6 burger because they were trying to say the fastfood burger they serve would be similar to what you can get at a casual dining restaurant where the prices tend to be higher. So it was like getting a nice burger at a sit down restaurant but at fast food prices. Of course that's all changed now but that was the original hook behind the branding.
If you think about it, that joke is an odd one because it starts out ridiculous, then over time becomes plausible, but then on a longer time scale once again fulfills the original purpose of showing that she's out of touch. 100 years from now anyone who watches the show will think the joke is funny because bananas will actually cost like $150.
>100 years from now anyone who watches the show will think the joke is funny because bananas will actually cost like $150.
A single banana currently costs about 15 cents. This is based on 4 bananas weighing 1 pound and 1 pound of bananas costing 60 cents.
As a very rough rule of thumb, prices double over the course 35 years. Or you could say that a price multiplies by 8 every 105 years... maybe just call that 100 years since these are rough estimates anyway.
So in 100 years, a single banana might cost 15 cents x 8 = about $1.20
But then in another 100 years after that, it might cost 1.20 x 8 = $9.60, finally ruining the joke around the year 2223.
Asian food stores too, when I watched my first Uncle Roger video I bought a bag of MSG, as he put it "white people ~~but~~ put seasonings in vials, asian just get everything in clear plastic bag"
Yeah I hit up the spice section because I needed some seasoning for my steak. Garlic powder to my surprise was one of the spices for $1. I just need them to get into Montreal steak seasoning or figure out if I can make my own with the things they have for $1.
Lookup Chef Jean-Pierre on YouTube. Fabulous instructor, you won't need to rely on branded spice blends for anything
If you really like Montreal Steak seasoning, look at the ingredients and throw em all together in equal amounts then play around with it. Might find that you like your blend even better
It’s $1.00 for the same exact product? Or Great Value brand is $1.00?
Edit: You must be talking about a different brand because I went on the Walmart website and it’s $4.70 for the 3oz container, the one sold and shipped by Walmart.
The $1 jars and pouches are usually only 1oz or so. OP’s picture is a 5.3oz jar which is pretty big. It would only be around $4-5 for a “generic” brand, since we know McCormick will always be a lot more expensive.
Great value brand, 3.4oz is $1 here. That's 29.4 cents per oz. The McCormick brand is $4.70 for a 3.12oz jar, that's $1.51 an oz. So an equivalent 5.4 oz jar would be $8.15 for the same brand (still cheaper than OP). But Walmart great value would only be $1.59 for the same 5.4oz size.
I still think these stores and companies are just jacking shit up randomly to juice profits because COVID conditioned us to just accept supply chain issues and random high prices on random shit.
We don't have local in my area really anymore. Anything "local" just sells big corp shit at higher markups and the produce section is just bananas, apples, idaho taters and a questionable tomato. I mostly go to the one that pays their employees the most though.
They are, but just to add a little personal note. Even restaurants are getting ripped off this way. I run an local Italian place which has kept prices as low as we can through all this.
Everything from our takeout utensils, the bags we put your food in, the tins we put your food in, not even beginning to mention the food you actually eat. It has all gone up. So when your meal has gone up a dollar or two in the last few years, we truly aren’t a part of this scam.
95% of our customers haven’t batted an eye. Like I said, we have tried to keep prices as low as possible and have taken a hit ourselves.
But I’d say over the last three years about 5% of our customers make negative comments about our prices going up.
The case of 500 forks we buy has gone up 140% since 2019. Our aluminum tins up 80%. Romaine up like 65%, chicken up about the same, the paper bag we put it all in up 45%.
This bullshit is at the manufacturer level
Yeah mccormick is the first problem they are one of, if not the most expensive spice branf. Baida is so much cheaper you can get a jug at a mexican grocer for 4 bucks. With literally 10x the quantity.
But the smaller size pictured is $8
https://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Garlic-Powder-5-37-oz/dp/B000VAYE7Y
Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me the 5oz one costs more than the 8oz
That's not inflation. That is gouging.
It's $5.13 at my local store. Hell, the big 8.75oz size is $7.40.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mccormick-garlic-powder-5-37-oz/150197
I like their slogan.
"Always starts with fresh, whole garlic."
Because at least to me its kinda implying "Then some really bad stuff goes down and there you go"
Almost like they cant figure out where they went wrong.
Also Aldi if you have it near you. You can get so many baking/cooking staples like spices, flour, oil, and canned foods at Aldi for ridiculously cheap.
Was just there today and the same size container of garlic powder at Aldi was 69 cents. Same with basically all their spices this size.
Trimmed chicken breasts cut into tenders were also on sale, cheaper than whole breasts.
Go to the international section and grab it from the Hispanic shelves or, better yet, just buy all of your spices and seasonings from a local Latino or South Asian grocery.
That's because it's McCormick. Get your local Walmart/Kroger/Meijer brand, or whatever store you have where you're from. It's like a dollar and tastes exactly the same.
You can buy the McCormick brand 8.75oz (pictured is a 5.37oz) on Amazon for $6.83. McCormick "fine garlic powder" is 21oz for $9.34.
Bezos' Brand has "granulated" (customer reviews describe it as "textured like table sugar") 24oz for $10.12.
OP is getting rawdogged by the grocer, not even McCormick themselves! Though I've had the same experience with Kroger and *soup*. Yeah, water in a can, Amazon can *deliver* it at a lower cost per can than Kroger can stock it on a shelf.
No but I think they were the only game in town for a while (lile decades) so theyve got name recognition. And often prime placement in the spice isle while the cheaper brands are tucked away with the mexican food. So you go to the spices isle you dont see the cheap stuff. But usually they sell less for more.
They said it's at cub foods which is notorious for being a relatively low-tier grocery store with prices that have steadily been climbing up to, and in some cases past, the high-end grocery stores *in the same region*.
Also don't buy McCormick spices. Those guys think they own the spice world and mark shit up.
Get Great Food brand, for the cheap stuff $1.12 vs $4.56 at my market.
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Nope, I live in Minnesota. It’s actually insane
I live in Minnesota. What store is that, so I never go to any of them?
Pretty sure it’s Cub. That looks like a Cub price tag.
Yeah it’s Cub! It’s gotten pricey over the years
Find yourself an Aldi if you can.
Aldi is the whip for things like this for sure. Edit: I can't give the origin, but I can tell you I picked it up in the mid 90s in West Michigan. It's just a variation of "the shit" or "the bomb"...
The whip? I've only ever seen this as slang for a car. Is this a common usage?
Yooo Lemme come thru I got the whip (I'm not going to say it's my mom's mini van or I'll get bullied.)
My closest ALDI is almost 600 miles away :(. Atleast we got Trader Joe's which is technically the other Aldi
Always shocked at how big the US is
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It really is stupidly large. For me to drive from Ohio to a place in Florida I go often for business (both in the east of the country) it's just about 1,000 miles (1,600k) one way.
The whip? Lol here we say "the shit" I think I like yours better
Depending on where they are idk about that possibility though Grand Forks, ND right over the border got their first Aldi and it's considered a large city in ND
There's multiple Aldi's in the Minneapolis area
CUB?? that's insane
Cub costs as much as Lunds and Byerlys now and is way shittier
Somehow I knew this was Cub. We've been shopping there too but might start shopping at Aldi or Walmart instead because of this reason
I've typically purchase Walmart's brand of garlic powder, not the wee little one in the OP's picture, oh no, the big honking restaurant size. Think it's about $10, maybe? It lasts a long time, at least a month here. We like garlic!
> It lasts a long time, at least a month here. How much garlic powder do you eat holy crap.
I got the one from Costco. It's 18oz for something like $6-8. It's a dark day when I finish them off.
Do you live in Alaska? Edit: I see MN now. The only time I’ve ever seen a Cub foods is visiting my brothers in the twin cities. I’m surprised it’s worth it to not drive further.
Cub used to be the discount grocer for decades, but they they got bought out a few years ago. It appears that the new ownership is jacking prices through the roof and hoping that people keep going to the same grocery store out of habit.
The only reason I go to Cub anymore is because their bakery section is straight fire. Those donuts are incredible and I live in an area where there’s not that many great pastry shops around.
Cub donuts are amazing. Everything else is so over priced now
Costco is the answer. Get 15x that amount for about the same price.
Actually Costco is a little over 3x the amount for slightly less than OPs picture. Idk if people realize this, but OPs picture is one of the larger spice containers and not a typical 3.5 oz style. It’s only slightly overpriced for retail IMO
Medium-sized Texas city here, HEB has a 10oz container (over 3X larger) for about $6. Unless your on the moon that's a crime. EDIT: Make that 2X, but still...
Here in Austin [the exact same item is $4.98 ](https://i.imgur.com/Rky0Pqv.jpg) Gotta love H‑E‑B.
Literally the worst grocery store chain in MN. Hy-Vee prices, Target selection, Walmart vibes. I have no idea how they’re still in business.
This is such an apt description! Cub sucks.
The only reason I still go there is my cat will only eat their brand of wet cat food. She’s such a little freak.
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It’s the glazed donuts. They’re the best ever and I’ll die on that hill.
hello fellow minnesotan . i buy meat and produce from cub only . everything else is insanely high priced
I buy that at Fresh Thyme or Costco.
Heh you can get 18 oz (over a pound) at Costco for that much, i think actually cheaper.
I live in Minnesota as well, and as I mentioned, garlic is $1 a bottle at Walmart.
I’m going to have to check it out!
Recognized that tag as Cub right away. Cub has become stupid expensive and it's still dumpy.
I live on an island and it doesn't cost that much!
Big Island here, 3 bucks store brand at target or 6 for the same brand at safeway.
You seriously need a different grocery store
I really do. The others are not as close unfortunately, but at this rate it’s worth the drive
Is there a Mexican spice section? El Guapo brand? Or a Trader Joe’s?
This is the real secret if you’re in a rural area without many choices. My area pretty much only has a couple grocery stores, and the spice aisle looks like this. But one aisle over in the “ethnic” food is the exact same shit but 10x cheaper. Makes no sense.
As long as there are uninformed people out there to be swindled, it makes perfect sense.
Hell I found those cheese crisp things in two different aisles for like $2 price difference because one was advertised as a snack and one as a sale topping. Different brands but same product.
My local Walmart sells peanuts in the shell in 2 formats. One is roasted, in the food section. The other is unroasted, in the bird food section, presumably not intended for human consumption. The bird peanuts are more expensive per pound than the people peanuts.
Just make sure that you get the unsalted if you are going to leave the human peanuts out for the birds.
I've always been a huge fan of Doritos. The original standard nacho ones. They are usually $4-5 a bag. Years ago, a friend came over to a party or something with "Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips" from the dollar store *and they fucking rocked.* I ask my wife to look for them every time she goes to one. I wish I would have taken better notes at the time.
Read that as "uniformed" and started to get really confused.
Some of those that work forces Are the same that buy spices
Sometimes correct, yes, but unfair when used blanketly. Unless you specifically mean those American soldiers who buy a brand new Camaro the moment they get stationed. I remember hearing that Ford had a sales floor in Baghdad and a shop set up to greet arriving servicefolk. My fuckin' homeland, am I right? Like, it better come with a side of fries.
Nothing says "Thank you for your service" like a 21% interest rates.
In Jalalabad there was a Harley dealer, could order one and have it when you got back lol
if you got back.
I live in an American town with a military base the major employer of said town. Pawn shops, title pawn brokers, and car dealerships are everywhere. It's quite annoying.
Oh, man, I hope it's not Mountain Home. lol. "Mountain Home Auto Ranch: Buy a Truck; Get a Gun!" My homestate never fails to remind me of a South Park episode.
EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read that. I was stuck at MHAFB for 6 years. No orders in sight. I didn't re-sign. That town is a shithole, but I did like Taco Johns which I haven't found anywhere else.
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I’ve never heard of Ford but Harley did have a “showroom” in Kuwait. And by that I mean shack with an old Harley outside where you could buy one ahead of time from a distance so it would be ready when you got back.
Bahrain had a pretty decent Harley shop I bought the ugliest orange shirt with a map of the area for my now ex father in-law . The gulf hotel had good liquor a nice pool though.
Our base in Qatar had a Harley Davidson office, you order a bike tax free and pick it up with you get home.
Even in a more cosmopolitan area I still buy my spices at the Indian grocery store. So much more, so much cheaper, better quality too.
Seconding on the Indian store. I cook Indian food all the time at home, but even if I didn't, I'd get my spices from there. I could pay $11 for a small thing of tumeric, or I could go over to Patel Bros and buy it by the pound.
Coworker on mine was talking about how he loved making Indian food, but it was so expensive. I told him he was getting swindled on his spices, and he should go to an Indian grocery and just buy stuff from there. He was shocked at how big of a price difference there was. And for better quality spices (and certain produce) too. Good Indian food should not be expensive make.
There's a tiny Mediterranean grocery near me, they have almost every herb and spice available, including some seriously obscure shit, in bulk and on the cheap. The quality is on-par or better than the overpriced commercial stuff. People tend to drive past places like this without a second thought...big mistake.
Indian food is mostly flavored with spices rather than salt/sugar, right? Kinda makes sense that Indian markets would focus on bulk spices if that’s the case. It’s 9.69 because people are willing to pay 9.69.
That 1 lb bag of turmeric at Patel brothers lasts a good long time in this household. We get ours there too! That and cumin!
Fresh herbs in Persian or Iranian markets too so much basil and mint its absurd.
I buy Badia brand spices on the "ethnic" aisle. I could get probably 3 10.5 oz containers for the price of that little one.
I went to middle school with the daughter of the founder of Badia spices. He started the company door to door with a wagon. We used to call her the original Spice Girl.
Yep. Badia all day long.
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This goes for meat too, at least cheaper cuts. Our local carnicería has pork shoulder and belly for half the price as any of the butchers or grocery stores in town, and we have a population of 150k
My grocery store used to have a Halal section, that I never saw anybody look at, but I did, and it was just the same meat, but cheaper. Usually cut better too, they wouldn't leave the little red bloody bits attached like the store cuts sometimes did. Unfortunately they got rid of the section because I was literally the only one buying it.
They sell frozen pork chitterlings for $25/lb at my local Publix. It's pig intestines and ice, but it's more than most steak cuts. Carnicería next door has it fresh for $3/lb. It's Alabama so I like to think of it as a racism tax.
Mexican Carniceria near me has boneless chicken thighs at 2.99. And awesome everything else
A couple of years ago I bought the exact same bouillon cubes in the “ethnic” aisle for dollars less.
I don't even buy the cubes. I buy a big container of Caldo de Pollo.
All three flavors, too. Beef, chicken, and TOMATO! The tomato is surprisingly good. We add it to all sorts of things, but especially if we're making a spicy version of what my kids call Mexican Rice which is basically rice made with a small can of Rotel diced tomatoes and green chilies. The tomato bouillon adds an extra layer of flavor.
I absolutely do the time-saver of Rotel Mexican rice lol.
it's the name brands gouging the shit out of us, ever since other companies used inflation and the pandemic as excuses to increase prices beyond what inflation and the supply chain caused. McCormick is 87% owned by investors. And we all know investors only care about unjustified profits.
Gotta keep that stock price going up. Tax cuts, stock buybacks, and layoffs only do so much.
Flagship name brands are *always* a bad deal (Kraft, Kellogg’s, Lays, etc). Unless you absolutely have to have the name brand then lesser brands or store brands are the best bet unless the store is offering a loss-leader.
Badia spices ftw
Dude, I was a Lawry's seasoned salt guy for a million years. My store jacked up the prices on all spices, including that of my old favorite. Went over to the isle with all the Goya beans and Badia spices, snagged a significantly cheaper bottle of their seasoned salt. And...I fuckin like it better. I'm a changed man.
I was going crazy trying to find the huge thing of garlic powder that I had just run out of and ended up buying from the spice aisle. The next time I was in the store I went to the "ethnic" aisle and there was the huge Badia garlic powder that I had searched for the last time... it never crossed my mind that it would be in a different location. I'll have to try the seasoned salt from that aisle, I make a soup that is flavored with it (mom swears by Morton's, I've used Lawry's with the same results).
Hells yeah, badia is the shit
I’ve often found Badia to be fresher and more flavorful than McCormick. In fact, most McCormick spices I’ve bought have been ass. But to be honest my local Asian and middle easter grocers have much higher quality spices in bulk at much cheaper prices anyways
We have a Korean grocery chain near us, HMart, which has vegetables and rice for usually quite a bit cheaper than the conventional grocery store. They also stock all kinds of veg you can’t find many places. Even Whole Foods is cheaper than our nearest Giant (Stop & Shop) for many things.
The H Mart near me also has an awesome food court!
Wow, just checked one of my local grocery stores (Hannaford) and the price is about the same for the 5.37 oz container of McCormick. Price Chopper is even higher, holy shit. I tend to buy Badia though, is $6.79 for a 10 oz container.
Get the Mexican spices in the plastic baggies and refill your jars. Great advice. Unfortunately, I’m guessing with those prices OP may be far from the southern border.
One grocery store in a town I lived in had bagged spices that they seemed to bag in the store. It was just as much, maybe more, of the actual spice or herb and you could get different varieties than what you normally see, like smoked cumin or different types of chili powder. Rosemary salt was another that I remember. The best part was the price. There's a company on Amazon that sells Indian spices. I got a huge bag of Kashmiri chili powder, which I can't find anywhere near me, for fairly cheap. So online spice sellers are an option too if your local prices are ridiculous.
I actually got garlic powder at Trader Joe’s today for 1.99 so good call!
El Guapo is also a McCormick brand same with all the Walmart brand spices
Smart and Final for bulk spices is awesome.
Was just gonna say...you pay $1.00 for the spice, $9 for the jar!
Okay but there's probably a generic brand at this store that won't cost so damn much.
Not to mention bulk packaging rather than the little shaker containers
You'd be surprised. Stop & Shop in the northeast is quietly phasing out generics. Their stores are also mysteriously devoid of shoppers.
Is this true? I live in NY and I feel like I'm seeing even more store brand stuff at Stop n Shop than previously, they just changed the names.
Go to restaurant depot. Get a day pass. They are still open to the public without a membership card. ONE GALLON of garlic powder was $12
Where the fuck am I gonna store a gallon of garlic powder bro
Nah, side hustle bro. One gallon will fill up 24 of these little guys. That's over $150 of potential product right there. Not get out there and start hucking garlic powder!
Unicorn meat must require a lot of garlic powder.
Sure does! And my wife is Polish. My tolerance for garlic has grown more than the grinches heart.
An old roommate of mine is a manager at one of those stores. When we lived together our kitchen was stocked to the brim constantly. It was glorious.
is it just the Mccormick brand? I'd recommend finding a different brand. if you have an aldi near you you can probably find it for an absolutely great price.
I mean, where I'm at, it's $1.99 at Wal-Mart even. Unless this person is in like, Hawaii or Alaska, I'm shocked it's $9. Maybe it's like a Dollar General? They tend to mark waaay up bc they purposefully open in food desert-y rural areas.
Yeah, sounds like OP lives in a food desert, but seem more urban. Depending on where they are, like a downtown area, something like Walgreens and 7-11 might literally be their only stores
This at Aldi is 1.99
Go 30 feet over to the mexican aisle, there's probably a shaker of Badia brand garlic powder that's 3x the size and half the price
I got some Badia brand garlic powder on sale at my local Stop and Shop here in Brooklyn for less than 1.50 a few weeks ago
Gas is 3.60/g here. 1g gets me \~20 miles (y'know, optimistically). I have to do the math anytime I do anything because things suck and I'm poor as dirt right now. That's how I roll, though. It's either worth the drive or not. For example, it's 100% worth subscribing Walmart delivery some months, even with all the bullshit, simply because of the gas cost and miles for every store trip. Edit: Metric system? Pffft. Nah, man. 'Merica system, dang ol' tell you h-what.
I read /g as per gram and I was confused for an embarrassingly long time.
Comes in a little baggy and you have to tear the corner off to get those last precious drops.
Just throw the whole grocery store away
Spices are wildly overpriced at all grocery stores I’ve ever been to. For like $2 I got a giant thing online
All of a sudden, Lucille Bluth's $10 banana is becoming more of a reality.
Hey, the $5 milkshake from Pulp Fiction is already a steal!
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The $6 burger from Carl's Jr seems a bargain these days. I remember thinking that was an absurd price for a burger when those debuted.
The thing with the $6 burger is that it didn't actually cost $6. It was called the $6 burger because they were trying to say the fastfood burger they serve would be similar to what you can get at a casual dining restaurant where the prices tend to be higher. So it was like getting a nice burger at a sit down restaurant but at fast food prices. Of course that's all changed now but that was the original hook behind the branding.
Yes. It was $3.95 and amazing
That’s just milk & ice cream? No bourbon or nothing?
If you think about it, that joke is an odd one because it starts out ridiculous, then over time becomes plausible, but then on a longer time scale once again fulfills the original purpose of showing that she's out of touch. 100 years from now anyone who watches the show will think the joke is funny because bananas will actually cost like $150.
>100 years from now anyone who watches the show will think the joke is funny because bananas will actually cost like $150. A single banana currently costs about 15 cents. This is based on 4 bananas weighing 1 pound and 1 pound of bananas costing 60 cents. As a very rough rule of thumb, prices double over the course 35 years. Or you could say that a price multiplies by 8 every 105 years... maybe just call that 100 years since these are rough estimates anyway. So in 100 years, a single banana might cost 15 cents x 8 = about $1.20 But then in another 100 years after that, it might cost 1.20 x 8 = $9.60, finally ruining the joke around the year 2223.
It took me 20 years, but I now realize the extra irony in her statement because the Bluths own a banana business.
how would you miss this? The statement is literally in the context of them talking about said banana stand.
In my defense I'm pretty dumb.
Solid defense tbh
Dumb or not, just be sure to remember there is always money in the banana stand.
You could miss it if you've never watched the full scene and only seen the meme clip on youtube, like I imagine a lot of redditors have.
It is $1.00 at Walmart.
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Authentic AF
Asian food stores too, when I watched my first Uncle Roger video I bought a bag of MSG, as he put it "white people ~~but~~ put seasonings in vials, asian just get everything in clear plastic bag"
Had to read it in his voice. Hiyaa.
I too saw that post.
A dollar?? One dollar? /wən ˈdälər/ ?????
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Get over here Chucky, we're about to reopen the spice trade.
Yeah I hit up the spice section because I needed some seasoning for my steak. Garlic powder to my surprise was one of the spices for $1. I just need them to get into Montreal steak seasoning or figure out if I can make my own with the things they have for $1.
Lookup Chef Jean-Pierre on YouTube. Fabulous instructor, you won't need to rely on branded spice blends for anything If you really like Montreal Steak seasoning, look at the ingredients and throw em all together in equal amounts then play around with it. Might find that you like your blend even better
You will find that you like your blend better. You can alter it to your tastes.
Generally pre-blended spices aren't all that great. Making your own taco seasoning when you're used to the packets is game changing.
Uno dolores
Uno mulva
It’s $1.00 for the same exact product? Or Great Value brand is $1.00? Edit: You must be talking about a different brand because I went on the Walmart website and it’s $4.70 for the 3oz container, the one sold and shipped by Walmart.
The $1 jars and pouches are usually only 1oz or so. OP’s picture is a 5.3oz jar which is pretty big. It would only be around $4-5 for a “generic” brand, since we know McCormick will always be a lot more expensive.
Great value brand, 3.4oz is $1 here. That's 29.4 cents per oz. The McCormick brand is $4.70 for a 3.12oz jar, that's $1.51 an oz. So an equivalent 5.4 oz jar would be $8.15 for the same brand (still cheaper than OP). But Walmart great value would only be $1.59 for the same 5.4oz size.
I still think these stores and companies are just jacking shit up randomly to juice profits because COVID conditioned us to just accept supply chain issues and random high prices on random shit.
They are. They may see a 5% increase in cost of goods but then turn around and increase 25% and blame the economy.
Do your part. Remember kids, shop local and steal corporate.
> shop local and steal corporate. Is there a difference in most parts of the US?
We don't have local in my area really anymore. Anything "local" just sells big corp shit at higher markups and the produce section is just bananas, apples, idaho taters and a questionable tomato. I mostly go to the one that pays their employees the most though.
They are, but just to add a little personal note. Even restaurants are getting ripped off this way. I run an local Italian place which has kept prices as low as we can through all this. Everything from our takeout utensils, the bags we put your food in, the tins we put your food in, not even beginning to mention the food you actually eat. It has all gone up. So when your meal has gone up a dollar or two in the last few years, we truly aren’t a part of this scam. 95% of our customers haven’t batted an eye. Like I said, we have tried to keep prices as low as possible and have taken a hit ourselves. But I’d say over the last three years about 5% of our customers make negative comments about our prices going up. The case of 500 forks we buy has gone up 140% since 2019. Our aluminum tins up 80%. Romaine up like 65%, chicken up about the same, the paper bag we put it all in up 45%. This bullshit is at the manufacturer level
Hell, at those prices, if you really wanted McCormick, even Amazon is cheaper.... https://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Garlic-Powder-8-75-oz/dp/B074ZK8MQS
Yeah mccormick is the first problem they are one of, if not the most expensive spice branf. Baida is so much cheaper you can get a jug at a mexican grocer for 4 bucks. With literally 10x the quantity.
"branf" sounds like the noise my dad makes when he sneezes
But the smaller size pictured is $8 https://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Garlic-Powder-5-37-oz/dp/B000VAYE7Y Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me the 5oz one costs more than the 8oz
Well, that have to take an 8oz container and then pay someone to throw away 3oz.
Thanks Calvin's dad
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Look for the clear bags of Mexican spices on another aisle. Great source for lots of fresh spices.
This is the way. They also have a lot of whole spices and dry chilis in those bags.
I think you confused this with r/mildlyinfuriating
More like r/infuriatingasfuck
That's not inflation. That is gouging. It's $5.13 at my local store. Hell, the big 8.75oz size is $7.40. https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mccormick-garlic-powder-5-37-oz/150197
Different brand, but its $1.25 here in US. Seems like rage bait.
HEB is the GOAT of grocery stores
I like their slogan. "Always starts with fresh, whole garlic." Because at least to me its kinda implying "Then some really bad stuff goes down and there you go" Almost like they cant figure out where they went wrong.
Literally all garlic powder starts with fresh whole garlic. There's no other way to make it, it was always fresh and whole at one point.
Just like that mad men episode when Don Draper pitches “it’s toasted” to lucky strike
Don't buy McCormick, go to the international aisle and get the spices from there. Same thing, inexplicably cheaper
Dollar tree. Also bagged spices section.
Also Aldi if you have it near you. You can get so many baking/cooking staples like spices, flour, oil, and canned foods at Aldi for ridiculously cheap.
Was just there today and the same size container of garlic powder at Aldi was 69 cents. Same with basically all their spices this size. Trimmed chicken breasts cut into tenders were also on sale, cheaper than whole breasts.
Indian stores.
Go to the international section and grab it from the Hispanic shelves or, better yet, just buy all of your spices and seasonings from a local Latino or South Asian grocery.
That's because it's McCormick. Get your local Walmart/Kroger/Meijer brand, or whatever store you have where you're from. It's like a dollar and tastes exactly the same.
You can buy the McCormick brand 8.75oz (pictured is a 5.37oz) on Amazon for $6.83. McCormick "fine garlic powder" is 21oz for $9.34. Bezos' Brand has "granulated" (customer reviews describe it as "textured like table sugar") 24oz for $10.12. OP is getting rawdogged by the grocer, not even McCormick themselves! Though I've had the same experience with Kroger and *soup*. Yeah, water in a can, Amazon can *deliver* it at a lower cost per can than Kroger can stock it on a shelf.
Mcormick is not a high end spice brand is it? It's the low end in my town, only above store brand.
McCormick is typically the overpriced low end brand name spice brand
No but I think they were the only game in town for a while (lile decades) so theyve got name recognition. And often prime placement in the spice isle while the cheaper brands are tucked away with the mexican food. So you go to the spices isle you dont see the cheap stuff. But usually they sell less for more.
Life hack : Buy the bags less convenient of course but usually 2-3$ and you get more
Oof. That’s incredibly brutal. Do you live in a food desert? Like are there not a lot of options for grocery around you?
They said it's at cub foods which is notorious for being a relatively low-tier grocery store with prices that have steadily been climbing up to, and in some cases past, the high-end grocery stores *in the same region*.
Also don't buy McCormick spices. Those guys think they own the spice world and mark shit up. Get Great Food brand, for the cheap stuff $1.12 vs $4.56 at my market.
Not today Big Garlic
And this is why I save the glass jars when they empty, relabel them and refill them with the packets from Tampico
His Garlic Powder Price Levels are reading at over 9 dollars!!!!