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enough. a lot of food is supply and demand right now. i d say i feel right now just from talking to our ranchers and farmers and dairy farmers and fish, you know mongers that we re at the peak of this food inflation period right now. we re starting to see some relief chicken prices for memorial day. they re lower than last year. you re seeing things like avocados lower than last year. you know, strawberries went up a little bit in price. grapes are higher. you re seeing market supply and demand issues right now. meat prices have a little high right now. i talked to one of our ranchers today in kansas city. he said the herd sizes are lower. but with the rain and the green pastures, he feels that will expand as the year goes on and we ll see lower meat prices.
vegetable prices come down right now. the only thing we re seeing is like these guys, which still are selling like crazy but these are all the different burgers that you can do on the grill this year. and stuff like this, you know, this is that great rib eye. good golly. that s the fred flintstone kind of stuff. when the ranchers come back from kansas, that s what they want, big rib eyes. you re seeing things like that which are $20 a pound right now. last year they were probably like 18. but, you know, other things you have, like here s a porter house steak, okay? you can get a deal on a porter house steak, which is half that price right now. but you still saw meat prices creep up because of herd sizes are smaller this memorial day than last. you as you have the most
party this weekend like barbecuing what kind of food should you be looking for if you want to save some money. beef prices have dropped about 0.5%. we re not seeing these super high meat prices like we did during the pandemic. hot dog up 2.2%, but the other stuff is going to cost you, bread, buns up about 13 ers. condiments like ketchup and mustard up about 10% and soft drinks also up about double digits some good news and bad news. so you ll take a burger with nothing on the side and no bun. you do what you have to do to save money. that s like a diet plan. like burger no bun, no sides. that doesn t sound fun just like a party that s not disruptive. add it all together john berman is a killjoy. well, you can have