Tomatoes
@allknowing (153530)
India
August 8, 2023 6:42pm CST
Food prices have been rising exorbitantly in India and more so with tomatoes What used to cost around Rs. 50 per kilo are now sold at some places at Rs. 250 a kilo. Government has started subsiding and if you are willing to line up for tokens you can get them at Rs. 70 a kilo.
I would rather spend and get my needs or just not buy them but would never stand in those serpentine queues for hours.
What would you do? Would you join those long queues?
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@DaddyEvil (174430)
• United States
9 Aug 23
If I needed something, I'd get in the queue. But I don't even like store tomatoes so sure wouldn't line up for those, even if they were giving them for free.
We do buy canned tomatoes but those are vine ripened before going to a canning factory.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
9 Aug 23
You seem to have alternatives. I wonder why those people are standing in that queue for hours just to get cheap tomatoes. Waste of time
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
9 Aug 23
@DaddyEvil I have not checked and also I will never eat vegetables that are canned. I do buy tomato sauce though.
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@DaddyEvil (174430)
• United States
9 Aug 23
@allknowing Canned tomatoes aren't sold in India? We can get every type of veggie canned or "fresh" as long as you don't mind that some things are ripened artificially. (Tomatoes ripened artificially taste like cardboard. YUCKY!)
Maybe those people REALLY like tomatoes? I don't know, otherwise.
It's also possible those people in the queue can't afford to pay the high prices.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
9 Aug 23
I hate queues no matter where and yes I too would rather do without tomatoes
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
9 Aug 23
Ihave grown them before but now a few wild trees ae not letting the sun that is required. But I will make some changes and I will start growing vegetables once again
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
9 Aug 23
I might. It depends on if I needed to or not.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
9 Aug 23
Would you pay the high price or stand in a queue?
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
9 Aug 23
@allknowing I’d go without for as long as I could.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
10 Aug 23
I am seriously thinking of getting back to vegetable gardening.
@MarieCoyle (59217)
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9 Aug 23
In the summers, we mostly use fresh homegrown tomatoes. I also chop and freeze a lot of them for winter and put them away. I always have cans of chopped tomatoes to cook with, which are excellent. I dearly love tomatoes, but I don't think I would stand in a line for hours to buy them. I'm sorry that is the only choice you have.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
9 Aug 23
I would rather buy them at high price if I just cannot live without them but never stand in a queue
You are well stocked.
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@MarieCoyle (59217)
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9 Aug 23
@allknowing
We like a lot of different dishes with tomatoes as an ingredient. We really love them!
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@sathviksouvik (23241)
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9 Aug 23
thanks Always smiling my mother and wife stopped cooking dishes with tomatoes. Once the tomato prices come back to normal we will use them again
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