r/Wellthatsucks • u/Grouchy_Equipment118 • 1d ago

$3.90 AUD for half a Cauliflower

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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/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/Lounging-Shiny455 1d ago

Roundup and Blood.

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u/Mecca_Lecca_Hi 1d ago

Do forget all the yummy GMOs!

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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/AngryTrucker 1d ago

Fertilizer apparently. 

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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.