PREVIEW - CHOCOLATE Colleague Simon Constable, reporting from the South of France, discusses three critical bourgeois foods that are both habits and among the most expensive luxuries. More details later
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
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| 1:00.4 | of France watching commodities, especially the bourgeois commodities. Everyone knows the grocery |
| 1:05.8 | prices are up dramatically over these last years. However, of all the groceries, of all the shops, the three that are most up to watch, |
| 1:17.1 | Simon gives us in order of success over the last year in price rising. Are you a fan of chocolate? |
| 1:25.1 | Do you like your coffee? How about orange juice in the morning? |
| 1:30.5 | Here's Simon. |
| 1:31.4 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:33.0 | Wow. |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.4 | If there's a way to empty your wallet, it's these three particular bourgeois commodities. |
| 1:43.1 | Orange juice. |
| 1:50.3 | It's up 55.5% over the last year. That's orange juice. So that's $5.15 per pound. That's really, really huge. Coffee, that's up 75% over the last year to $3.20 per pound. You'll pay a heck of a lot more |
| 2:08.2 | than that in the store because it has to be transported there and roasted and all the rest of it. |
| 2:13.6 | And then you've got cocoa, which is really epically, I mean, the move in price is really quite amazing. |
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