We eat bananas.
We eat lots of them.
I just buy them.
We just eat them.
So, you can imagine my surprise when a friend posted this on Facebook:
It had not occurred to me that bananas would be expensive, even though I know all about poor old Queensland's rain. I had been in happy oblivion.
The Facebook post has ruined my week. I keep checking the price as I buy them, chastising my children for not giving them the respect they deserve and diving to catch discarded ends before they hit the floor.
My boys and I eat at least one each and if they are small it can be two.
I miss enjoying my bananas, guilt and neurosis free. The truth is it is guilt. I can afford to pay $3 a banana if that's what they cost, but I feel guilty that I can and don't even look a the price.
So really my enjoyment of bananas has not been ruined by the price of the banana at all.
I am still pondering exactly what the guilt is about. Poverty consciousness from being brought up in a poor area by penny pinching parents? Catholic Guilt (That's a pretty good catch all)? A feeling it's ostentatious? I do hate ostentatiousness (is that even a word?)...
Are you eating bananas at their current price? Does it make you feel guilty, or is it just me?
Just started following you so I'm catching up on old posts...
ReplyDeleteI bought some bananas 2 days ago, here near Melbourne they are $13.98 per kilo at the moment. I know exactly what you mean, I should've weighed them before buying so many: $23.84 worth of bananas!!!
Since having kids (and me being a SAHM) we have cut back on all luxury expenses, and most of the money is going on food. So it does feel a bit wrong spending sooo much on bananas, but they're so good for us I thought I'd compromise and buy them only fortnightly, kind of what we do with salmon which is so good but so expensive at the same time.
Who would've thought a couple of years ago that I'd be looking at bananas as a luxurious item.
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