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      It is like a dollar each, but the smiles on kids faces as they walk home with the beginnings of a stew are priceless

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          Yeah, same here, and even that’s high. I know you can get deals where you can get 2 of those bags for like $5. It’s one of the cheapest vegetables you can get. Definitely a great food to buy if you’re not doing too well financially. Cheap, nutritious, filling, and tons of recipes.

          For comparison I got my Halloween bag of candy at Costco for $20 bucks… candy is ridiculously expensive.

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          I just pulled up the [Department Store] app I have on my phone and looked at the individual prices, it says $0.82 each

          I’m gonna be honest, I could not possibly tell you how much a potato weighs, so I have no idea how many potatoes come in the $3.27 5 lbs bag

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          You can spend $1.45 a potato where I’m at

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        What potatoes you buying are they gold encrusted?

        Where I am you can basically get them by the crate load. I have no idea what one individual potato cost because I’ve never bought one individual potato. But my estimate would be about three for a dollar. Big ones like in the photo not little tiny ones.

        Also don’t get no ones in plastic wrapping they’re more expensive and they’re not any better. Just wash your vegetables. The mud and flavour admittedly it’s mud flavour.

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          Why are wrapped in plastic? Don’t they usually come in some sort of netting and or loose and you can get as many as you like in a cloth bag?

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            Usually the ones individually wrapped in plastic are being sold as microwaveable.

            I guess we’ll just ignore the fact that you don’t need to wrap a potato in plastic to microwave it successfully.

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              In fact, you really shouldn’t wrap your potato in plastic to microwave it. That’s an awful idea.

              That said, all potatoes are microwaveable anyway.

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                I think the idea is to show that it’s already been cleaned and is ready to be microwaved without having to clean it.

                It’s still stupid and I would never buy one when I can get 5 lb bag for not that much more, but I don’t think the idea is to microwave it in the plastic.

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        Bro, you hand me finger foods I’m gunna eat it on the way back, just ask for a little salt at each house you stop by.

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      No way that can be true, how much for a kg of potatoes where you live