35 Baht for a small can of Chang in 7/11
It was 25 Baht a few months ago
35 Baht for a small can of Chang in 7/11
It was 25 Baht a few months ago
They certainly seem a bit higher and you can combine that with the stregthening of the baht over the past ten years. It adds up. Many things are as expensive as they are in developed nations.
Although the Baht has weakened by 10% in the last few months
Large(ish) bottle of gas has gone from 800 to 840 in the last year. Up 10B today.
The baht has weakened but it was 39/$1 back in 2004. At that time they were still selling change at 3 big bottles for 100 baht I would think. Combine the currency gains and the price increases and overall the cost is certainly up.
Singa have reduced the size of their bottles of beer , down from 640 to 500 ML
Pity being poor nah? 10 years ago Fuji did not cost 60-80 baht a meal mate.Originally Posted by Fluke
You have posted you live in Bumfcuk Nowhere, how do you get to a Fuji?
Talk about a thread full if fucking moaners and whining old Sheila's. For fuck sake, it's called inflation ! A little bit of it is healthy for any economy, basic economics rule 101.
Try fucking off to your own stinking countries and see how much people are paying back I. those shit holes for basic supplies. Fuck this joint is starting to sound like Thai Visa.
Get a hold of yourselves ffs.
I spend an average of 30 Baht per plate of food.
It is often heaping, so it is a good deal.
How high could it go?
Even if they doubled it, it would be too expensive for me, I would say.
So, I just do not worry about this yet.
And, I drink most hot water with a little honey in it, so I don't spend a lot.
I can afford to live for a very long time.
One thing you really should not do, if you are concerned about price increases, is drink anything with a tax on it.
That is why I have stayed with the honey and water.
I don't want to pay tax.
Sure, i suppose you could put the honey outside for a while and make some honey beer. What is the point, really?
If you keep drinking you will then just need to pay more money for doctor bills and more trips to the dentist as well, since drinking makes you smoke, too.
I have learned to curb my impulses, and it really is not that difficult.
That's what I love about this forum, Fuckin drink honey and water instead of beer to avoid tax , that's some solid advice right there.fuk knows why I've never twigged to that ,Cheers captain. I wish I could learn to curb my impulses to, you've got the awesome willpower dude,
Don't get me wrong mate. I've got plenty of will power. I must have, coz I've never used any of it yet
Price increases?
Always have and always will.
Its hard to notice the small incremental price increases, much easier to notice if you've been away for two or three years.
In the US manufacturers are employing size reductions while maintaining the same price. The typical consumers don't notice, to busy or naïve.
Pizza 99 baht delivered to you door can't moan at that when its raining hard outside.
Well, I moan and I groan.
Why do I do this?
Simple as pie.
If you don't forget that you have ordered it, and fall asleep before it arrives, drunk as a lord, usually, then you will always notice after opening the lid that there is barely any cheese on the cardboard. I don't mean on the box. I mean on the cardboard that they think is the pie.
So, yes i will groan, and I will moan.
If you don't know it, the best place to find an edible pizza is in Manhattan.
But, then you are going to need to pay through the noze for it.\
I have heard tell there is a very respectable pie in Norther Thailand. But, it will cost you about 600Baht for a small one.
WHAT!!!!!!
600 Baht?
That is dirt cheap, really, when you think they need to fly the cheese over from Europe.
The bigger question you need to ask yourself is:
Why dont they have cheese makers were we are in Thailand?
Or, can you even MAKE good cheese out of the milk they have?
The answer is a resounding YYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!
I know, because I am a cheese maker, when I have it in me to make cheese.
This is what I think about the pizza here.
^I don't eat pizza it's for our son,only time i eat pizza is when we are in Italy.
Well, OK then.
What are you moaning about?
I agree that Italian pizza can be very good when it is hand made by your mother in law.
Also, it requires a very toasty hot oven, which most people around here do not have unless they can make their own bellows, or something.
I was thinking, though, that in Thailand not too far away there are some ceramics ovens in which they bake pots, and bowls and mugs.
What do you want to bet I could make a pretty find pizza in one of them, and not using cheeze.
But i would substitute stinky bean curd.
Off Topic, but;
A Real Italian Pizza, dinner plate sized with the pita thin crust, slathered in olive oil, perhaps with a crushed tomato sauce and buffalo mozzarella, cooked in a hot open brick oven, would justify an exorbitant price.
The only place that would have an adequate customer base to support such an enterprise would be in the Bangkok business district.
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