Originally published at: Rash of butter burglaries plaguing Guelph groceries - Boing Boing
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The price of butter now astonishes me.
£3 for a standard stick (or thereabouts).
You wouldn’t need to nick much to make a grand’s worth.
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That seems high. I can buy 4 sticks here for under $5.
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Guess how much a half-litre of Extra Virgin Olive Oil is in our local supermarket…
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Consumer butter is usually 30/36 lbs to the case, though I’ve seen half-case 15/18 packaging too.
If 4 cases cost $958, even if that’s the expected retail sales price and not the actual cost, that’s some very expensive butter.
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I’m afraid I can’t follow the math here, though I don’t doubt your accuracy.
A standard stick is, what, 200g?
Would you mind calculating the price of a stick for me?
Just not in hamster-girth or banana-length, ta.
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In the US, 4 sticks is a pound. I have no idea how many grams that is because 'Murica. But if there are 36 lbs in a case, then that case would be something under $180. USD. I have no idea what the current exchange rate is, but I can see a shopping cart full of butter adding up to almost $1000 Canadian. It seems plausible anyway.
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What’s that in the firkin-furlong-fortnight-farthing system?
I calculate one shilling and sixpence for a dram of butter, if you buy it on a Wednesday.
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Still amazingly cheap, colour me envious.
The butter my Dad insists on is something called “Yeo”, salted “country” butter - £3.62 per 200g.
As to the Olive Oil I mentioned earlier - Felipe Berrio (or whatever) Extra Virgin - £11.50 for half a litre.
£23.00 a litre.
Both Greece and Italy have had horrible wildfires this year, 100-year old Olive groves burnt to the ground.
I blurred the above because of incredulity.
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For butter in the US, I think it’s the pat-stick-pound-tub system.
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Guelph groceries
So they’re groceries that support the pope in his struggle against the Holy Roman emperor?
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The grocery store brand of EVOO for my store is about $10 for 17 fluid ounces. That’s about half a liter. Who knows if the store brand really is EVOO, though. The Felipe Berio is normally about $15 for 3/4 of a liter, but that’s currently on sale for $11. Damn, if I weren’t about to move, I’d go buy some.
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Oh, hold on.
My apologies.
In my UK brain I read that as a stick of butter is 25p.
Yeah, I know, knobhead me.
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smør-panik strikes again.
Ah, yeah that would change the math quite a bit. 4 sticks is a pound in weight. One stick is also 1/2 cup or 8 tablespoons. US culinary measurements are soooooo simple.
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I knew both of these facts, and yet never put them together and now my mind is blown.
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I was at the wholesale food market to today and butter in sticks was $4.17 for 458gms, or 1#. The blocks of the same weight were $4.07. My olive oil comes from a company in California and is about 20$/liter. I wish I could still find a nice Spanish olive oil around here that wasn’t three times that price.
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A stick of butter in Canada is 125g if you’re dumb enough to buy butter by the stick. It costs about CAD$3.50 to do that which is insane considering that a pound of butter (454g) costs CAD$7.50 on average (£4.25, maybe?). This isn’t fancy butter, though… you can pay a lot more for butter if you’re so inclined.
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Not that different to here then, considering.
