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Skriven 2010-03-20 18:42:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Prices of Grub
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 DD> What y'all pay there at the extreme far end of the supply chain is, of
 DD> course, going to be higher than prices in, say, Thunder Bay or Sudbury
 DD> in Ontario.

Absolutely. When I try to compare Canadian to American prices in
general I tend to use Edmonton as my comparable, not here.

 DD> breadbasket of the nation -
 DD> larger pork processors

Yep. You have it good in many respects.

 DD> Boston and New York (not NYC, however) in fairly recent memory and
 DD> marvelled that some people actually manage to survive on minimum wage
 DD> jobs.

I wonder if anyone in Boston or NYC actually gets just the minimum
wage. In the NWT the legal minimum wage is $8.50 but I don't know of
a single job in YK that pays less than $11 to $15 per hour. Subway
starts off kids at $11 and gives then a $1 raise for every 600 hours
of experience up to $15, Molly Maid has two person crews and pays
$14 for the inexperienced helper and $15 for the senior cleaner who
must have a driver's licence; the hospital's housekeeping dept.
starts at $12.50 with all the benefits of being a government
employee: dental, pension etc. Even at $15 it is hard to recruit and
retain staff.

 DD> Oh, and as an aside - the major component in hooch prices is the $$$
 DD> added by the tax man. I have no idea what the Canadian Sin Tax on demon
 DD> rum is in your area.

Canadian + NWT taxes, which are the highest of any province in
Canada, together push up the price of a fifth/26er/750 ml bottle
to $32. But that tax is a major source of funding for our free (to
the user) universal health care plan, so I don't bitch too much.

That bottle would cost $24 in Edmonton which is why I stock up there
and according to my BIL the rodeo guy, just $10 in North Dakota. (Do
you know how much whisky you can hide in a tractor trailer full of
Brahma bulls and never get caught by Customs?!?)

MMMMM-----Meal-Master - formatted by MMCONV  2.10

     Title: CUMQUAT CHILLI SAMBAL
Categories: Spreads, Sauces, Chilli, Liew
  Servings: 1 1/2 cups

   200 lg Chillies- red
     2 tb Vinegar- rice
     2    Cumquats;peel/seed
     2    Cumquats;seeded/chop peel
     4    Garlic cloves
    60 g  Ginger root
     1 ts Salt
     1 tb Sugar

Seed the chollies, chop into small pieces. Put chillies, cumquat &
garlic in a blender. Puree till smooth then add salt, vinegar &
sugar. Put the resulting chilli sauce into a strainer & squeeze the
juice into a bowl & reserve.

For a perfect sambal put the remaining dry pulp into a mortar &
pound with a pestle till the chilli skins & all other ingredients
for a completely smooth paste. [This will take a while.]

Incorporate the juice back into the chilli pulp. Mix well. The
chilli sauce should be very smooth & fine. The heat you expect from
200g of red chillies will have disappeared.

From: THE ADELAIDE REVIEW, 14 JULY 2006

By: CHEONG LIEW

Typed by: KEVIN JCJD SYMONS, 8th JANUARY 2010

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Cheers

YK Jim


... Canada - The state so clever, it doesn't pay taxes to Washington!

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