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by GrumpySloth 842 days ago
Except tomatoes are more than 4 times as expensive as potatoes. :D
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I guess it might depend on where you are
What place has potatoes more expensive than tomatoes?

Outside of Asia, which is more rice-based than potato-based, potatoes have a hard-earned centuries-old reputation of food for poor people (cheap to farm, not much nutritional value). But even after checking the prices in Japan, tomatoes are several times more expensive.

Maybe you’re not looking at the price per kilogram, but price of package for packaged vegetables?

I feel like this isn’t the best place to litigate the price of tomatoes
Lmao true I was just arguing that market can be irrational :D