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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: Buying rice in Toronto |
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Boy, the shelves of my local grocery store are cleared of rice, save for whitey rice like Uncle Bens. The Asians are stock piling, thinking either prices are going to skyrocket or there will be massive shortages.
I'll worry when Asians start buying Uncle Bens. Then you know there's a real crisis. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Why should we care? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Temporary wrote: |
Why should we care? |
And yet you clicked on the subject. That's why we have subject lines. So you can decide whether or not you want to read. But I dunno off the top of my head, if Asians are panic buying rice here, they might start panic buying in Korea.
They lowered the bar yet again for ESL teaching, did they? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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How are the prices?
I bought a kilo of rice last week and paid W3,000, which I think is the same as before. |
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Hanson

Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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mindmetoo wrote: |
Temporary wrote: |
Why should we care? |
And yet you clicked on the subject. That's why we have subject lines. So you can decide whether or not you want to read. But I dunno off the top of my head, if Asians are panic buying rice here, they might start panic buying in Korea.
They lowered the bar yet again for ESL teaching, did they? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
How are the prices?
I bought a kilo of rice last week and paid W3,000, which I think is the same as before. |
8 kg bag of short grain rice for $10. So that would cost you about $24 in Korea. Koreans are happy as beavers in a wood pile to pay 240% more for their rice! |
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