Bus Passengers and Inflation
Luxury food items. I don’t know when last I bought broken cashew nuts. Broken? Yes, they are cheaper than whole nuts because they are crushed. Eating pickerel, my favourite fish after salmon is nothing but a memory. I got used to eating pickerel when I worked in the North. They have many lakes so it was cheap. I cut it out from the grocery list because it costs an arm and a leg.
I didn’t know peaches were a luxury item for me, until I couldn’t afford them last summer. Peaches! My people in Africa will not believe it, because we used to climb peach trees and eat as we picked. We threw out worm-infested ones.
Fast forward to Canada. How does the woman on the bus and the man who drives the bus manage if they have school-going kids? Where do they chop the budget? It’s tough because kids are at the eating stage and parents love that. There’s great concern when a child loses appetite. Food substitutes are cheaper, but are they as healthy as original fruit and vegetables?
Nonqaba waka Msimang
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