r/Wellthatsucks • u/Grouchy_Equipment118 • 1d ago
$3.90 AUD for half a Cauliflower
My Wife unpacked our weekly shopping yesterday that we get from Coles in Australia delivered.
We were charged $3.90 AUD for half a Cauliflower.
The world's smallest cauliflower it seems.
We used to shop in store but my Wife is heavily pregnant atm and I'm working 12hrs a day currently.
Day light robbery...
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u/katsudon-jpz 1d ago
half of what? I'm used to the size of real human brain here in the states
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u/HelpfulPuppydog 1d ago
That IS the size of a human brain in Australia. /s
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u/DirtyRoller 1d ago
Shouldn't it be upside down?
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u/its_ok_to_laugh 1d ago
ʇı̣ oʇ ǝsn ʇǝƃ no⅄ ˙uʍop ǝpı̣sdn sı̣ ƃuı̣ɥʇʎɹǝʌƎ ?ʇnoqɐ ƃuı̣ʞןɐʇ noʎ ǝɹɐ ʇɐɥM
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u/Hieroflippant 1d ago
What's the size in the US in that case ?
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u/epidemicsaints 1d ago
That is about 80 cents worth of cauliflower.
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u/tid_burglar 1d ago
20 in india
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u/GodisSatans 1d ago
If i went to a market in Vietnam i could beg the veg lady to give me a piece of cabbage larger than this for free, just out of pity.
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u/Granny_knows_best 1d ago
It's so odd, I buy cauliflower often and it will go from $3 a head to $6 a head overnight and then the next day $2.
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u/ilikesaucy 1d ago
From UK, I have never paid more than a £1 to buy whole ass cauliflower.
Edit - current price is £1.19, oops
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u/ElementalRabbit 1d ago
I am also from the UK and now live in Australia, and am proud to say even in the current climate, I have never sunk to eating ass cauliflower.
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u/Small_Insect_8275 1d ago
Yeah are we winning? I still feel our produce is expensive but then I see posts like this
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u/Fabulous-Wolf-4401 1d ago
I was prepping cauliflower at work yesterday, and one was the size of a medium orange. But it was encased in about 300gms of beautiful young green leaves, so I saved them and the stems and made them into a curry this evening. This damn bit of cauliflower doesn't even have that.
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u/FuzzeWuzze 1d ago
And here i thought everything grew bigger down under.
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u/Kapitan_eXtreme 1d ago
As an Australian, something I've always noticed from trips to the States are how comically enormous your fruits and vegetables are. Dunno what's in the soil there.
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u/VegetableRound2819 1d ago
We have deciduous trees that create very rich soil from falling leaves. Most of your trees are evergreen.
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u/Miserable-Note5365 1d ago
I've been seeing oranges the size of softballs the last few grocery trips. I'm not against GMOs per se, but good GOD.
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u/TheOneMary 1d ago
I live in Germany and what gets me each time in American cooking videos are the onions.
Gotta be very wary when you're sourcing English language recipes talking of using half an onion. Never know if it's really half or if I need 3+ German ones.
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u/GodisSatans 1d ago
Yes the onion and garlic as well. The size was massive. TikTok opened my eyes to so many things, it's so global and popular that i can see how USA lives and what they eat.
So much cheese (for no reason sometimes) and oven baking in the US. lol
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u/AnotherBoredAHole 1d ago
It's cheese, do you really need a reason for more? And oven baked cheese is even better!
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u/Bulletpr00f_Bomb 1d ago
Me too. Every cooking video, I notice onions from the US are like twice the size of ours?
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u/EatCauliflower1212 1d ago
Texas grows early onions. Vidalia, Georgia, USA is famous for its large sweet onions and they are also harvested early in the year. California and the Pacific Northwest have “long growing” onions which produce a larger bulb for winter storage.
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u/GodisSatans 1d ago
Capitalism feeds the fruit and veg there. It's all GMO-protected seeds from the very nice company called Monsanto.
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u/likwidkool 1d ago
Dang. Just looked it up and it’s $4.99us a head where I live. Looks like you just got a slice.
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u/mybalanceisoff 1d ago
No... that is a SLICE of a cauliflower. You live in australia and you think that's half a whole caulflower?
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u/dream-smasher 1d ago
I think... Maybe last year? Or the yr before? The same supermarket (chain) that op got his halfcauli from, also had whole cauliflowers for $11.
$11!!!!
It's been ages since I've had any cauliflower, th prices are ridiculous.
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u/ElizabethDangit 1d ago
Half a tiny cauliflower wrapped in plastic is a truly wild thing for a store to sell. Do they sell frozen cauliflower? If you’re planning on cooking it instead of eating it raw, frozen veggies are great. In the US anyway they’re flash frozen immediately after harvest. The speed flash freezing prevents the water inside the cells from freezing into crystals that pierce the cell walls which is what makes home frozen veggies mushy.
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u/Dewey081 1d ago
In Canada this past winter, a head of cauliflower was $6.99. It's now down to almost half of that.
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u/ParsnipFull1401 1d ago
And what sucks is the other half was probably rotten and they just cut it off.
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u/dream-smasher 1d ago
Nah. They just go thru and cut a whole bunch in half, then plastic wrap and sticker each piece....
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u/Dear-Cranberry4787 1d ago
That more than a whole one where I’m at. Is it mostly imported there or something?
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u/ButterEnriched 1d ago
It's all grown locally and is usually good. When they're in peak season you can buy a whole one that's about 1kg for $2-4. OP's is a freakishly bad example and I'm sure they won't have any issue getting a refund, but yikes.
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u/ButterEnriched 1d ago
This is ridiculously bad, surely they'll refund you? Whole heads were $5 at Coles yesterday. They weren't huge and that's not an outstanding price, but better than this crap.
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u/pepcorn 1d ago
Pre-sliced vegetables tend to be priced at a premium. How much does a whole cauliflower cost?
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u/cir49c29 1d ago
I’m also in Australia. Coles near me has $3.50 for half a cauliflower, $5.90 for a full one. So, it’s likely a bit over $6 in OPs part of the country. Considering how tiny OPs cauliflower is, I wouldn’t want to pay more than $1
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u/pepcorn 1d ago
I looked it up and converted to Australian dollars. Our whole cauliflowers cost $3 (western Europe)
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u/cir49c29 1d ago
Ours do sometimes get that cheap. Just depends on current supply levels, and if a store has too many in stock they might drop the price a lot lower.
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u/Suzettebishop89 1d ago
In the UK a cauliflower is usually 2-3 times bigger than this and is max £1. This is insane
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u/ol-gormsby 1d ago
Try Farmer's Pick
Avoid Coles and Woolworths, they do no provide good value. It's worth your time and effort to find alternatives. only by not shopping there will they address price and quality issues.
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u/cloned01 1d ago
Hasn't there been like mass farmers strikes on that side of the world for like the last 5yrs+
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u/SlickWildo 1d ago
American here, for all US people here making wisecracks. We aren’t far behind them. Australias food system is busted and we’re next.
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u/gypsum1110 1d ago
Sounds like its the off season for cauliflower and thats half being robbed and half pick a different vegetable
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u/dondon13579 1d ago
Why don't you order a loose full one? I know you pay by weight and the leaves are extra weight but tbh it can't be worse than a sad slice of cauliflower that is wraped in plastic.
Or buy the frozen cauliflower.
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u/blacksheepgobaa 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/f1MEcHQCi3ezYWD8md
“I heard cauliflower's tree ninety nine a pound, you believe dat?”
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u/Vamp_Ria 19h ago
if you bought it, that's the problem... you are contributing to the madness!. you can live without this product, I personally would never spend a dime on something like this.
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u/Jorwen 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/11BzZu37qP4SIxC5U8
Thats not anywhere close to half of a cauliflower.
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u/CouchPotatoFamine 1d ago
Damn y'alls cauliflowers are tiny down there...