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...Milwaukee supermarket, an aged shopper who found that her grocery bill totaled 180 more than the cash in her purse asked the check-out clerk to remove a can of cat food from her order. The clerk offered to pay for it because "I wouldn't want your cat to go hungry." The woman replied, with a weak smile: "I'm the cat." Her plight is shared by many of the elderly who live on fixed incomes. Says Robert Forest, editor of the Senior Citizens Sentinel: "Food prices are murdering the aged. The only two places they...
...resorted to all kinds of meat substitutes and stuck to them-at least for the week. Many stocked up on poultry. Said the sales manager of a major West Coast food chain: "It looks like Christmas in our warehouses-turkeys and fryers are really moving out." A Los Angeles shopper, Jane Burnham, pledged: "I'll boycott until I grow feathers from eating so much chicken." Others seemed to be willing to sprout scales. Fish sales rose sharply, driving up the price of filet of sole to $2.90 a Ib. in many places, exceeding the cost of porterhouse steak...
Lest any budget-pinched shopper follow that lead, he had best be advised that a diet of canned, all-meat dog food is overly rich for humans, just as it is for dogs, and can lead to diarrhea, bloating and bad breath. But leavened with cereal-based dog food, it might even surpass in nutrients the diets of snack-happy American teenagers. One of the Oklahoma students' tastier recipes, for instance, calls for two cups of Gaines Gravy Train, heated with water, salt, pepper and garlic. That provides much more protein and vitamin A and B1 than does...
...AVERAGE SHOPPER at his local chain store, those damn picketers are just another pain in the neck. It's below freezing, after all, and he just wants a can of cat food, or maybe a box of onion chips for the party that's starting in ten minutes. The next stores's three blocks down, and cat food's four cents more there, and he's not buying lettuce anyway. What difference can he make...
...also a booming black market in food and other consumer items, an outgrowth of government price controls. The black market prices -what Greeks refer to as "the hat" -are the difference between what the government says the local butcher can charge for a piece of veal, and what the shopper actually...