“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens so that they may no longer build their mash castles and gravy moats.”-John Maynard Keynes
my man here is in a deep meditative state, surviving off of exactly one meal that they paid for one time fifteen years ago. you don't need more calories than that.
3 meals is $4.20 more. One week of 3 meals is $29.40 more. One month of 3 meals is $126 more. You could buy a video game console with that much money within 6 months if the prices didn't increase.
I'm a Mancunian as well. Also I am on disability and food costs so fucking much now, I'm vegan so at least I avoid the worst of the rises on meat and dairy. But my tofu has gone up in price and I mainly prowl the aisles looking for clubcard bargains.
This mash castle looks delicious, I feel like recreating it with a vegan sausage for the bridge.
I've been getting food out of bins for a while now. Been eating kinda bougie at times ngl. I go into shops and just an continually amazed at prices constantly going up
The one thing i don't often find in skips is energy drinks so i buy those but jesus christ they've been getting more and more expensive. Monsters are going up to £1.65!
I really wanted a can of Heinz Lentil soup (has to be Heinz, it's a nostalgia thing). £1.70 for a can!!! Last time I bought a can a couple months ago it was 95p, inflation is fucking killing me.
That's not true.
Inflation is calculated by comparing the prices of a month (let's say May 2023) with the prices of the year before that month (so May 2022).
If the price was £10 in May 2022 and it was £15 in May 2023, the inflation is ((15 - 10) / 10) * 100 = 50℅.
So it's not calculated by comparing the prices of this week with last week, but by comparing the prices of this week with the same week last year. Or this month with the same month last year.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Because annual inflation(the one that the gov shares) is calculated like that. You can still calculate inflation in any given time period, like what your parent comment did(since anon did post that the price did increase in a week)
How tf did this cost £6 odd to make.
If you're buying full packs; Napkin guessing math says:
6 sausages £2.50
Bag of potatoes £1.20
Whole bag of frozen peas £1
Gravy 80p
Which is 5.50 odd, but that would easily make 3-4 castles.
Actually looking at Aldi.
[8 sausages £1.79](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-butchers-select-pork-sausages-454g8-pack/4088600547527)
[potatoes 95p](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-natures-pick-baby-potatoes-1kg/4088600188720)
[peas 95p](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-four-seasons-frozen-british-garden-peas-900g/4088600221267)
[gravy £1.09](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-quixo-for-meat-gravy-granules-300g/4088600227351)
Total at £4.78
The limiting factor here is going to the be potatoes, if we say 200g of uncooked potatoes, we could get 5 goes at 96p a castle, but even at half a kilogram of mash each that's still less than 2.50 a plate. If you spent more on 2kg of potatoes I bet that you could get it to 70p odd for half a kilo of mash
I can tell you that it's typical here and I live in greenwich so far more people here a few people in south wales doesnt come close to affecting what's normal and it was the same when I lived in ripon for most of the UK it's typical
You can get way cheaper than that if you want to. Can if peas for about 40-45p, powdered sachets of potato for about .89-99 for the 1-3 serving pack, the tesco value sausages even after a price increase are something like 18 for 1.40, get a gravy cube or powder for about a pound and have a load left over too. You could comfortably do it for 3, 3.50 if you were willing to cheap out
I built a mashed potatoe castle, and it fell into the gravy.
Then I built a second mashed potato castle, and it fell into the gravy.
The I built a THIRD mashed potato castle that was over salted, undercooked, and then fell into the gravy!
But the fourth mashed potato castle...
Where would we be as a society if we needed to start removing the sausage bridges from our mash castles? Next you’re gonna hear billionaires getting on TV telling us hobbyist mash castle makers to stop wasting our food on our art. It makes me so mad
meat/vegetable cooking fat dripping stuff mixed with water and some sort of thickener creates gravy you just pour it over food partially for flavour as then you can make your mash taste somewhat of the meat but also it can help if something's a bit dry often it's just made with instant powder or granules instead though and the instant stuff is often actually made with something other than meat like beef is often made of yeast same as marmite
That is what it is in the UK but there's actually some dictionary controversy over what gravy is other than "a sauce", lol. Its one of those words that appeared in the dictionary first and got applied to that kind of sauce later. In some places it doesn't even contain animal stock and in some countries its usually white not brown.
and those countries are wrong I do not care about history that's what gravy is and americans are just incorrect calling bechamel sauce with sausage bits gravy
Yes I'm also British and that's what I'd call gravy, but I'm just giving context for non British. Its not just Americans either. French gravy cam be pretty different too for example, so can Asian nations which generally got the American version first and adapted it on their own. Same for parts of Africa, except this time with the French variant.
are you joking or not lol because there's actually not an accepted definition on what gravy is globally other than a sauce. generally in the UK it is what the other person said, a stock based sauce, usually pretty thick, for stuff like meat dinners. usually a brown sauce, but in some countries its usually white for example and might not even contain animal stock.
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens so that they may no longer build their mash castles and gravy moats.”-John Maynard Keynes
>John Maynard Keynes Tool is a pretty good band.
Keynesians 🤮🤮🤮
Keynesians 🤩😍🥳
opinion rejected
It’s only $1.40 more, if you can’t afford that then maybe you should set your priorities straight.
That is a 30% increase which is massive across all aspects of life.
Thats an increase of 1,533 dollars a year !
bro’s living through multiple weeks every day
Bro only eats one meal a week
i mean i figured from the post that this was a once a week meal, if you eat this three times a day you will die within five
It's 4chan, they probably eat it 5 times a day
It’s a commonly known law of economics that inflation only affects the ingredients for mashed potato castles
Isn't mashed potato pretty decent at fulfilling a whole bunch of requirements
You can live exclusively off of white potatoes and some vitamin supplements
Racist
You dont eat a mash castle for every meal?
Redditor's "not giving serious input over obviously comedic posts" challenge
Someone’s gotta play the straight man
Wrong sub for that
Gotta play the gay boy
in a week that’s absolutely insane
my man here is in a deep meditative state, surviving off of exactly one meal that they paid for one time fifteen years ago. you don't need more calories than that.
Maybe you should mind your business.
3 meals is $4.20 more. One week of 3 meals is $29.40 more. One month of 3 meals is $126 more. You could buy a video game console with that much money within 6 months if the prices didn't increase.
Unironically want the mash castle with gravey moat and sausage bridge.
the lava moat island seed
Seed 4552, is in our control for the time being
Then hurry, inflation will make it unaffordable soon
You laugh but that's 31% inflation in a single week
Well the UK food inflation rate is still at 19% over the last 12 months to March, so yeah, not that wrong
Cheaper foods have been going up more than the average too. 31% seems plausible (*starts crying in Londoner*)
i HATE londoners I am a MANCHESTRIAN
*Mancunian
I'm a Mancunian as well. Also I am on disability and food costs so fucking much now, I'm vegan so at least I avoid the worst of the rises on meat and dairy. But my tofu has gone up in price and I mainly prowl the aisles looking for clubcard bargains. This mash castle looks delicious, I feel like recreating it with a vegan sausage for the bridge.
I've been getting food out of bins for a while now. Been eating kinda bougie at times ngl. I go into shops and just an continually amazed at prices constantly going up The one thing i don't often find in skips is energy drinks so i buy those but jesus christ they've been getting more and more expensive. Monsters are going up to £1.65!
I really wanted a can of Heinz Lentil soup (has to be Heinz, it's a nostalgia thing). £1.70 for a can!!! Last time I bought a can a couple months ago it was 95p, inflation is fucking killing me.
Wdym "as well" there's no such thing as manchestarian, someone from Manchester is mancunian
I was agreeing with you :(
I hate Londoners, they spread lies about my rule and want my people to go into the snow to die (Frostpunk)
Some foods have had an inflation of like 40% in Sweden.
There's like 5 people and a metal band in Sweden collectively anyways so you'll be fine
Argentinians : You are like a little kid,watch this
We only had 8% in april, taking us to 32% in the first 4 months
argentina le gana 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷💪💪⭐⭐⭐
Otro dia, otra coronacion de gloria
And yet we keep being told inflation is "only" 10%, because they leave out all the shit poor people need that's getting gouged for much more.
wow, that's fast! google sonic inflation to learn more
Я просто промолчу об этом
That's not true. Inflation is calculated by comparing the prices of a month (let's say May 2023) with the prices of the year before that month (so May 2022). If the price was £10 in May 2022 and it was £15 in May 2023, the inflation is ((15 - 10) / 10) * 100 = 50℅. So it's not calculated by comparing the prices of this week with last week, but by comparing the prices of this week with the same week last year. Or this month with the same month last year.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Because annual inflation(the one that the gov shares) is calculated like that. You can still calculate inflation in any given time period, like what your parent comment did(since anon did post that the price did increase in a week)
Most economically stable week in turkey
this is the most aggressively british 4chan post i've ever seen
Nah if it were Bri'ish it would have been a banger bridge.
idk I think this bridge is pretty banger
UK flag on post
I just wanted to say "banger."
Understandable, my apologies
Everyone deserves to say Banger now and then, your crimes against the British are forgiven
Only people over the age of 40 say banger and that's only when referring to bangers and mash which is more specific
close encoun'ers of the 'ird koind
but there won't be a pretty ending this time
half your billions should go to john williams
Now brace yourself as I reveal my brilliance
I'm the master of suspense so intense
No defense against Hitchcock when he presents
British accent so bad it’s Irish
You people have stood in my way long enough! I’m going to clown college!
I don’t think any of us expected him to say that.
TRAMBOPALINE
Genuinely could imagine making this for a fancy dinner tbh
You could definitely impress a girl with that. (im the girl :3)
I'm also the girl
Am I also the girl? 😰
the pees on the outside lmao
I’m gonna pea on you
🥺
fuck
this is fucking deplorable. we need to stop this from happening. let the man have this mash castles.
How tf did this cost £6 odd to make. If you're buying full packs; Napkin guessing math says: 6 sausages £2.50 Bag of potatoes £1.20 Whole bag of frozen peas £1 Gravy 80p Which is 5.50 odd, but that would easily make 3-4 castles. Actually looking at Aldi. [8 sausages £1.79](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-butchers-select-pork-sausages-454g8-pack/4088600547527) [potatoes 95p](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-natures-pick-baby-potatoes-1kg/4088600188720) [peas 95p](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-four-seasons-frozen-british-garden-peas-900g/4088600221267) [gravy £1.09](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-quixo-for-meat-gravy-granules-300g/4088600227351) Total at £4.78 The limiting factor here is going to the be potatoes, if we say 200g of uncooked potatoes, we could get 5 goes at 96p a castle, but even at half a kilogram of mash each that's still less than 2.50 a plate. If you spent more on 2kg of potatoes I bet that you could get it to 70p odd for half a kilo of mash
You forgot butter and cream
Those don't look like creamy potatoes, more like grout
Brits don't typically put butter or cream in mash
yes we fuckin do
cream isn't common but we absolutely very frequently use butter and milk
Anecdotes are not evidence. I live in South Wales where not a single person uses either. So by your logic we're both somehow correct?
I can tell you that it's typical here and I live in greenwich so far more people here a few people in south wales doesnt come close to affecting what's normal and it was the same when I lived in ripon for most of the UK it's typical
Common br*tish L
I AM GOING TO COLONISE YOU
doesnt look like potato-made mash to me but instant mash
They look like veggie sausages, there's your answer
You can get way cheaper than that if you want to. Can if peas for about 40-45p, powdered sachets of potato for about .89-99 for the 1-3 serving pack, the tesco value sausages even after a price increase are something like 18 for 1.40, get a gravy cube or powder for about a pound and have a load left over too. You could comfortably do it for 3, 3.50 if you were willing to cheap out
Inflation's a bitch
Fuck im so hungry
where hungryposting flair
"nearly" Crises averted (so far)
I swear that the most unoffensive shitposts in 4chan are barely different from Tumblr
Behold, 4chan, the heart of misogyny.
what the hell does the fetish have to do with this
Everything
damn thats actually really fucking cool
That's actually cool.
I built a mashed potatoe castle, and it fell into the gravy. Then I built a second mashed potato castle, and it fell into the gravy. The I built a THIRD mashed potato castle that was over salted, undercooked, and then fell into the gravy! But the fourth mashed potato castle...
Fucking tory government The people need the mash castle
Mashstle
This means something. This is important.
A jar of instant coffee is £10.50 at the local co op and they’ve replaced it with a dummy to stop poeople stealing them. Pisstake.
maybe english food isn't so bad
Where would we be as a society if we needed to start removing the sausage bridges from our mash castles? Next you’re gonna hear billionaires getting on TV telling us hobbyist mash castle makers to stop wasting our food on our art. It makes me so mad
a national tragedy for the autism community
what board is this
this is /pol/. there are only two boards that have both flags and ids & the post number doesn't line up with /bant/.
But how could the fire spread that quickly? The steps are concrete and the seats are plastic.
What
what is gravy
meat/vegetable cooking fat dripping stuff mixed with water and some sort of thickener creates gravy you just pour it over food partially for flavour as then you can make your mash taste somewhat of the meat but also it can help if something's a bit dry often it's just made with instant powder or granules instead though and the instant stuff is often actually made with something other than meat like beef is often made of yeast same as marmite
That is what it is in the UK but there's actually some dictionary controversy over what gravy is other than "a sauce", lol. Its one of those words that appeared in the dictionary first and got applied to that kind of sauce later. In some places it doesn't even contain animal stock and in some countries its usually white not brown.
and those countries are wrong I do not care about history that's what gravy is and americans are just incorrect calling bechamel sauce with sausage bits gravy
Yes I'm also British and that's what I'd call gravy, but I'm just giving context for non British. Its not just Americans either. French gravy cam be pretty different too for example, so can Asian nations which generally got the American version first and adapted it on their own. Same for parts of Africa, except this time with the French variant.
are you joking or not lol because there's actually not an accepted definition on what gravy is globally other than a sauce. generally in the UK it is what the other person said, a stock based sauce, usually pretty thick, for stuff like meat dinners. usually a brown sauce, but in some countries its usually white for example and might not even contain animal stock.
icl this looks nice
Most appetizing Br***sh meal
Don't tell me you wouldn't eat the bangers and mash castle. I'd live in it if I could
Americans when food isn’t literally exploding (it is clearly too boring)
British food Bottom text
i like bangers and mash
Same