Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Greg Folkert writes:
> > Ratio of White flour to Wheat flour? What do you guess?
>
> > 6-7 white flour train cars to 1 Wheat flour. We are talking 160,000
> > pounds each train car. Each car being a 100 ton car.
>
> Sounds like a plausible ratio. However, you're still talking carload
> quantities. The difference is not likely to make the white flour more than
> a few percent cheaper than the whole wheat (and the cost of the flour isn't
> that large a fraction of the price of the bread anyway).
In actuality, white flour in those quantities is actually more
expensive. There is more storage costs, processing costs[0], extra
pre-cautions for contamination. Wheat has those as well, but fewer of
them in less scale quantities.
I though maybe you (or anyone) would have caught on to where I was going
with this.
> Of course, there was a time when white bread was the fancy, expensive
> stuff...
Which is exactly why the US (in general) has a preference for it.
[0] == Think for instance, trying to get the evidence of a ground mouse
or rat out of the white flour? Yes, it is gross to think about. There
are FDA regulations about it. Same for hot-dogs and other ground meat.
--
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net
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