/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12177593]

>go to local supermarket
>one section has ORGANIC Red Bell Peppers on sale for $1.48 each.
>another section has regular Red Bell Peppers on sale for 98 cents each.
What did they mean by this?

[Anonymous No.12177601]

>>12177593
Retard tax.

[Anonymous No.12177613]

>supermarket has cauliflower for $6 each
>they are small and already turning brown
>local organic health food store has cauliflower for $4.50 each

I don't know what to believe anymore.

[Anonymous No.12177614]

>DURR WHY DO THE BETTER THINGS COST MORE
>croppedhentai.png
Kys faggot retard

[Anonymous No.12177631]

>>12177614
being "organic" doesn't have any effect on their nutrition. Now, perhaps the organic ones might be better because the happen to be fresher or in better physical conditiom. but that could just as easily happen with the non-organic alternative.

I check both types in the market, I buy whichever looks, smells, the best. Sometimes that's organic, sometimes its not.

[Anonymous No.12177644]

>>12177631
Cool, show me where I asked.

[Anonymous No.12177645]

>>12177593
"Organic" foods use less-efficient, more costly farming methods and avoid GMO foods that can actually provide worthwhile yields, so they have to charge the market more, so the market charges you more.

>>12177614
>better

[Anonymous No.12178819]

>>12177631
Some supermarkets literally spray their fruits with "perfume" to make them smell like they're fresh. At this point I only go to the supermarket for cleaning products, toilet paper, tissues, soap, etc etc. The food is terrible.

[Anonymous No.12178823]

>>12177644
you sound like a reasonable person

[Anonymous No.12178876]

>>12177631

For me, it's not about the nutrition/look/taste/etc. It's about the minimization of exposure to pesticides which I believe act as hormone disruptors and cause cancer.

[Anonymous No.12178890]

>>12178819
Do you have insider information on that or is it just an old wives tale? Not being defensive because I work for one of the biggest supermarkets in my country it seems counter productive because we monitor customer feedback and quality test fresh produce by touch and look, not smell. Although I work in home delivery so our stuff is ideally kept at preservation temperature until delivery.
No idea what happens to the produce before it reaches us though and I don't really want to know.

[Anonymous No.12178903]

>>12178890
Kek forgot to add, the company I work for does a lot of shady shit against customers and employees that I'm sure is commonplace everywhere so I don't want to come off as a shill. Stuff that leads to bad customer feedback is not seen as good however because it digs into profits.

[Anonymous No.12178912]

>>12178890
I'm French, my little cousin works at a big supermarket chain, told me they did that. There were also plenty of documentaries about supermarket practices to sell more product and that included the fruit aroma spraying. Now I'm done with them and when I go to my small veggie and fruit grocers, the tomatoes I buy maybe don't look as plastic as they do in supermarkets but they actually have taste unlike the bland shit you're sold in supers. Funny thing is that it's almost the same price but the quality is ten times better. That includes the butcher too.

[Anonymous No.12178963]

>>12178819
This complete nonsense

[Anonymous No.12178967]

>>12178819

I can confirm this. I work at a supermarket in LA, and we spray our fruit with Polo Sport by Ralph Lauren, and spray our vegetables with Calvin Klein One because we've noticed it really brings the men to the section and they end up buying more veggies. We have a pilot program going where instead of directly spraying the foods, we have modified an in duct humidifier unit and instead of water in the reservoir its filled with a mixture of AXE, and a patented chemical which allows the scent to be dissipated through the store better. This allows for greater scent to food coverage (industry term, try to keep up)

[Anonymous No.12179003]

>>12177593
Holy shit, 98c each!? They are 5 per lb here (each one is usually almost half a pnd)

[Anonymous No.12179010]

ITT: we find out stuff costs a different amount depending on where and what quality it is. IT'S A CONSPIRACY! Time to renounce food.

[Anonymous No.12179266]

>>12178967
Huh, we use Axe body spray at my store, but we're experimenting with old spice on select fruits.

[Anonymous No.12179982]

>>12177593
>grab organic ones
>choose regular at self checkout

[Anonymous No.12180045]

>>12179982
youre a nigger

[Anonymous No.12180054]

>go to supermarket
>meat is $2.16/lb

[Anonymous No.12180064]

>>12179982
>grab the most expensive apple
>mark it as the cheapest one at the self checkout
I love self checkouts, everyone complains that it kills jobs but it lets me eat like a king.

[Anonymous No.12181376]

>>12177593
no actual fda standard of organic it's all marketing bullshit

[Anonymous No.12183148]

>>12179982
Based, fuck supermarkets, fuck Monsanto

[Anonymous No.12183991]

>>12180054
>around 450lb of retail meat is one cow
>$980 for an entire cow worth of meat

How does this even work, what kind of cow are you getting and what kinda people kill and cut it for you for a price like that.

[Anonymous No.12183995]

>>12181376
Organic and light are the 2 biggest buzzwords of the food industry, they both don't have to mean shit.

[Anonymous No.12184012]

itt poorfags coping.

[Anonymous No.12184141]

>>12178912

I could believe his happening in Murica, Germany or some other bizzarro corporate favela, but France? They have super strict food quality regulations.

[Anonymous No.12184148]

>>12178876
Organic doesn't help in that regard. Pesticides are still allowed on organic crops, it's just a different list that's not actually any healthier.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogsscientificamericancomscience-sushi20110718mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/

[Anonymous No.12184155]

>>12177644
>Cool, show me where I asked.
You implied organic was somehow "better". It's not.