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May. 1st, 2019 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaMay Day greetings to you all! Workers' rights and bunches of lily-of-the-valley.
I've been travelling a lot, to Australia and New Zealand, mostly because of family members being ill - and it's really good to be back. :) Australia - the parts I was in - was showing the impact of a long, hot summer, with dry, dry gardens, and produce like tomatoes astonishingly expensive - at least, I was astonished to be charged a dollar more for a cheese-and-tomato sandwich than my friend was for a ham-and-cheese; both my friend and the sandwich-shop woman laughed at me for being surprised.
New Zealand, though - what a beautiful, damp, green country that is! A magic country - no wonder they did all the Tolkien there.
I've been travelling a lot, to Australia and New Zealand, mostly because of family members being ill - and it's really good to be back. :) Australia - the parts I was in - was showing the impact of a long, hot summer, with dry, dry gardens, and produce like tomatoes astonishingly expensive - at least, I was astonished to be charged a dollar more for a cheese-and-tomato sandwich than my friend was for a ham-and-cheese; both my friend and the sandwich-shop woman laughed at me for being surprised.
New Zealand, though - what a beautiful, damp, green country that is! A magic country - no wonder they did all the Tolkien there.
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Date: 2019-05-02 02:43 am (UTC)I think in general places charge more for vegetarian/vegan because they can, but the tomatoes costing more was because the summer crop of tomatoes had been devastated by the heat, and scarcity = price rise. It's pretty amazing to think that tomatoes are close to being an "essential", though, such that people (including me) will pay triple the price rather than do without for a month.