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Show Food prices so high you need a ladder to reach them could have bought a Volkswagen--well, at least a Honda. I've been wondering where it will all end. There's an old saying "everything that goes up must come down," but I don't see any signs of falling produce yet Someone better work a little harder on inventing a pill w e can take to replace all this outrageously priced food. Thanksgiving dinner would sure be easier to cook and there w ould be no more dirty dishes, just empty pill bottles. We could have regular and low calorie and larger pills for big eaters like my sons. Think of the possibilities...no more throwing away spinach or broccoli because the kids wouldn't eat it No more trying to find room in the refrigerator for leftovers you know no one will eat but you can't stand to throw away. No more washing greasy frying pans and plates with dried egg on them. Of course it w ill also mean the end of hot homemade bread, chicken w ith homemade noodles, and chocolate cake. Oh well, if w e started popping pills for lunch they would probably raise the price of them so high we couldn't afford them either, so maybe we might as well go on eating our old fashioned and rather expensive foods...."Please pass the gravy." By Mary Gae Evans PAROWAN - Whoever it was that announced on TV a few days ago that food prices were leveling off didn't do any shopping shop-ping last week. Tomatoes in some stores were 88c a pound! Now, that's quite a bit for a hard, half-green tomato that will add very little color and no flavor to your salad. I can see into the future now, the produce departments selling tomatoes by the half or quarter like they do watermelons, and, maybe avocados the same way-they were 59c each last week. Celery is so high they might have to consider selling it by the single stalk. I guess some of our local farmers should consider raising tomatoes and celery instead of hay and grain. If I could have sold the few tomatoes I grew in my weed-infested garden plot last summer for 88c a pound I |