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meadowlander

(5,137 posts)
5. We're already kind of there.
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 08:28 PM
Sunday

Have you seen the price of tuna, cod or salmon recently?

I grew up lower middle class in the 80s and we had tuna fish sandwiches for lunch almost every day, fish sticks (with actual fish in them, not extruded paste) a few times a week and salmon every few weeks.

What lower middle class family can afford that now? Tuna at my local store is $2.15 a can at the moment. I can't even get cod anymore since the fisheries collapsed and salmon is $14 a pound for flabby farm raised barely edible stuff.

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