Bread sold by the slice

[Lazie]

The harsh economic times have forced many inner-city shopkeepers to become more creative in pricing basic food items to suit the pocket of their strapped-cash customers.
Selling a single slice of bread may not be the norm in Jamaica, however, it is in many of these areas where shopkeepers retail a slice of the product for $20.


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[Gamma]

that has been going on for a while from when i was a bwoy in fact (well maybe not exactly by the slice, half a loaf quarter loaf etc, eggs sold individually, cigarettes, slice a pear ....

[Jangle]

yup...big gill a oil, half pound a sugar, half pound a flour. I remember the dutty sugar weh dem used to sell. Yuh mix likkle lemonade and haffi strain that through cloth. Flour had to be sifted through strainer fe get out the weeble and other stuff. Chicken back sell off!!!

[Gamma]

"wet sugar" ...

[Lazie]

that has been going on for a while from when i was a bwoy in fact (well maybe not exactly by the slice, half a loaf quarter loaf etc, eggs sold individually, cigarettes, slice a pear ....

"(well maybe not exactly by the slice,)"

Well the man say $20 per slice. Dem writing bout it now ... so clearly it is news.

[Gamma]

well IN MY DAY $20 could do some people's grocery shopping ...... and could buy nuff nuff bread!! $20 a slice is news in that regard!

moreover, there was not much "slice" bread available anyway....you had to slice it yuhself when yuh reach home probably because there was no consistency in slicing.

[Jangle]

Those were the days when $20 was the biggest denomination.

[T.K.]

well IN MY DAY $20 could do some people's grocery shopping ...... and could buy nuff nuff bread!! $20 a slice is news in that regard!

In your day fire wasn't even invented yet much less bread.

[Karl]

Bread by the slice!

Many of you may not have been born when this occurred during earlier years.

Not even sure if it ever went away as visiting 'country' became multiple short visits (say from 1965 onwards) that deep intimate interaction with 'the poorest of the poor' became more and more transient.

[Karl]

Just seeing your post...
Agreed!

[Gamma]

thy baxide!!!

luckily when i went to school history was not offered as a subject because it had not been made yet ... yuh feel betta 'bout yuhself and yuh youthfulness now??!!! eh..

[Karl]

"(well maybe not exactly by the slice,)"

Well the man say $20 per slice. Dem writing bout it now ... so clearly it is news.

$20?
...wonder current value of that $20 dollars when compared to $1 value in say the 1969 (year our J$ was introduced)?

A loaf of bread?
$0.20? ...do not remember what it was then...would love to be reminded of same.

[T.K.]

thy baxide!!!

luckily when i went to school history was not offered as a subject because it had not been made yet ... yuh feel betta 'bout yuhself and yuh youthfulness now??!!! eh..

LOL....why yes.....yes I do Father Gamma.....You're a good sport bredren.

[Mosiah]

Yuh have a point in this somewhere.

[Exile]

I was wondering....