No.
Prices depend on production costs transport costs, cold chain, loses before the product is sold, profit…somehow prices on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are similar. Is transport cost negligible? Does the cold chain fails more in Mexico meaning more loses of asparagus before sales? Are Mexican shops getting higher yields than Coop? I’d love to learn what’s happening here.
Yes, the problem is the inequalities. Subsistence farmers in the developing world look for cash crops that are exportable. We are all connected. NZ has the advantage that it is not of great interest for drug cartels interested in moving their products.
Not long ago Switzerland was a poor country of farmers. Then came mercenaries, tolls on transit goods, industrialisation and banks. Now Switzerland is a major commodities hub for many of the products from developing countries. Either you believe in “free markets” or some kind of ethics or hopefully a mixture of both.
I still try to check my avocados to avoid the rotten ones.
Because they are being flown in the bellies of passenger aircraft and those planes are going to fly even if the cargo holds are empty.
Reminds me of this
Migros probably haven’t realized how many people are on holidays these days. They sell avocados with big discount - 0.85 / piece. Normal price is between 1.25 - 1.60, very really 1.00. But almost all of them are soft, I guess they are rotten already. Probably the whole box will go to the garbage in the end.
If it happens again take a photo of the spoiled produce and recept. I have always got a refund in either superpoints or shopping cards. It takes only a few minutes.
My Avocado’s. Its the first time they have been outside after the one-room-pokey-hole-under-the-roof, they are throwing off their big lowlight pale green leafs and are replacing them with smaller and more reddish ones.
Go 'Cado’s
By the way, here is a leaf that looks like a shark…
“Baby Sharkado doo, doo, doo, doo”
“Baby Avokado doo, doo, doo, doo” ?
Damnit, I actually sang that and now I can’t get it out on my brain.
Well thanks guys, i now have a new earworm!!!
“Yak tsup tsop parvi karidola
Tuk parivila tits tandula
Dibi dabi dala rup
Parirupiram kurikan
Ghubkaya kili-kan-ko”
Don’t thank me!
Tying my brain into knots trying to sing that.
But I see your feeble attempt and raise you…:
Perhaps that is why they are on sale.
This one will get you
Arrrgh!
I have literally emptied todays gash out of the car with Bananas in Pyjamas worming its way around my Skull.
So you Knave…. Take that:
A whole new world is opening up to me - and all due to two rotten avocados 
This is my contribution to this madness:
I prefer the original
The great earworm war of Friday backfired for me, I spent the entire drive on the A96 singing „LaLala, la la lag. One banana, two banana..“
