Lots of our veggies come up from mexico and south america. Unless those tariffs are specifically targeted at china, that stuff will rise too
The fun one will be rare earth though… That will skyrocket so many things… or makes using them in the US virtually useless as the cost at that point will work it’s way all the way through the supply chain that by the time it reaches a consumer product it will be cheaper to I port the finished product and take the tariff there.
Bananas.
Some grown in hawaii, most not.
bananas will be fine. they’re $0.50/pound for a reason
Bananas are going to have a problem in the near future, as soon as fungal evolution catches up, but yeah, Trump’s tariffs aren’t going to be the problem
What’s that? I have a banana with me rn, is it possible that it might be my last?
Banana trees* are cloned, rather than seeded. The old banana that artificial banana flavouring is based on, the Gros Michel, cannot grow in most of the world due to fungus in the soil. The modern Cavendish banana is potentially susceptible to the same problem, if some bacteria or fungus shows up that can infect it, there goes our bananas
*Banana plants technically aren’t trees, but argue with a botanist about it, trees are stupid
Kona blend 'bout to get real popular and even more expensive.
A ton of produce is imported here, too. It’s often easier to import from the southern hemisphere for things otherwise out of season. Tariffs on that would be asinine, of course, but these people are morons so…
Should we really import products that are out of season though?
This will not be popular but coffee is absolutely a luxury lol.
and cocoa beans 🍫
I mean in the sense that it’s not a necessity (unless you’re addicted or basically addicted) but it’s not fancy foreign stuff.
I have occasional moments where I try to sit and think about the fact that you could take almost anyone from a few hundred years ago and they’d be just floored by the quantity and kinds of food available, like just the crazy flavors and variety of snack foods themselves.
And then show them just hot and cold water on demand, the incredible ease with which waste of all kinds is handled (at least for most of us). The time it takes to get dressed and wash clothes, similar for preparing food and cleaning up.
I mean, all jokes aside, it’s useful to think about the fact that - not that long ago - the things available to a ton of us as fairly default stuff - would be extreme luxury, basically royalty only, if it was available at all. Of course as part of the “standard package” we’ve lost important things that used to be available, by default, to most folks, too. Pretty weird.
Something that also blows my mind: pre industrial era, people had more free time than we do today.
Just think about the fact that 100 years ago everyone in the world could not get get out of season fruits and vegetables unless you grew them yourself and probably needed a greenhouse.
No tomatoes, no strawberries, no blueberries.
It’s why preserves and fermenting were such a huge thing. Through our history humans have invented tons of methods to keep food edible during times of less abundance.
Now there’s a world wide logistics network just so someone can have a fresh tomato in their salad in January.
Just buy the American grown coffee beans /s/
I remember one of the presidents asking why, when everything is supposed to be made in u.s.a. they buy Columbian coffee and not U.S. coffee and he was told it’s too expensive for the president.
MAGA forgets what happened when someone fucked with our Tea supply. And we don’t even (as a country) like tea all that much.
what happened to your font?
I make coffee at home, I don’t import it.
Not like you millennials with your fancy frappy cappy whatever.
That’s why you can’t afford a house.
I thought it was the avocado toast
Yeah I like my crappy fappys
the only state that grows coffee is hawaii and their coffee is already more expensive than anything you’ll find on the shelf now
So far
Puerto Rico.
and apparently california now too–though i don’t know if they sell it, or are still working on getting production going
Still 2 to 4x the cost of beans from other countries, more than the tariffs.
The high price is from high labor costs. So, once tarrifs happen, it’ll be competitive, no?
Are the tariffs 1-300%?
Not a state, a colony.
… and that’s relevant, how? Were talking about tarrifs. Puerto Rican coffee has no increase in tarrifs. Puerto rico grows coffee - not a particularly huge amount of it, (yet), but it’s good (not great).
😩
Chocolate.
Anything that uses palm oil.
tl;dr: Cows produce more milk when their diet includes palm oil. Tariffs on palm oil will even make milk more expensive.
Which is seemingly everything at this point. Disappointing how much stuff uses it.
