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Old 04-30-2011, 10:31 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by blahblah454 View Post
In Canada a "cheap deal" at a local fast food place is closer to $8.00, so coupons like that are solid gold when shopping here.

But then again you are still paying money to be eating that crap, lose-lose.
Yeah, for a long time I have been amazed at the economy of scale as it works in the food industry in the U.S. It gives credence to the term corn-fed Americans. It's my understanding that dirt cheap corn is an integral part of their system from the bottom up. And I'm pretty sure that much of that is subsidized, so it's not merely an economy of scale within corn production alone.

It's a pretty messed-up system when you look at it from a Canadian perspective. Sure, ours has similarities, but the degree/scope to which their system works is astounding.
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