Yesterday after I had my lunch and dinner combo I just decided to eat some of this commercially available fried corn or "Cornicks" just to satisfy my craving for it. It is one of the most natural foodstuffs that I can buy rather than having the more processed salty snacks out there although this one has been cooked in oil and has an added sodium which is monosodium glutamate which a great impact on the palatability of the fried corns which gives an umami or yummy flavor aside from the salty flavor imparted by the salt as one of its ingredients. But this two 8 grams of Cornicks is already fetching at 5 PH Pesos which makes it an expensive snack already because if inflation hadn't gone loco, it could have been sold for one pesos each considering that it will be also expensive still because of the small amount of corn inside these small packets.
Well in hindsight it is better for these snacks or any other salty and or junk foods out there to get expensive particularly softdrinks in my opinion so that people will refrain form purchasing them or consuming them because the harm the body in one way and the other. But if I come to think of it, it just means that other basic commodities are also had gone expensive already and the price of these one cheap snacks is only a mirror on how our general economy not only within this country that I live in but also worldwide. There is a recession going on because the demand for crude oil or fossil fuels went down if you can see in the charts because industries are cutting back if not totally halting their operations because basically not much people or consumers are consuming due to the inflated prices of everything.
It is interesting to see that in my country, there is a series of fuel price rollbacks now compared to the last few years because oil price here are deregulated and the rice will move based on the current oil price. So now since the price of oil per barrel is getting relatively cheaper, at least it has a positive impact about the overall price of commodities, however it seems that the prices are still holding at high prices and the only consolation that people or consumers can really get is that they will not get any more expensive. But regardless, we are still living within a terrible economic situation because of the impact of ponzified financial system which is the root cause of the slowing of the gears of economy. Right now because of the war in Ukraine, the US government is trying to control it by sending armaments to Ukraine and these things are not cheap, they are bought and they are being purchased in dollars. So where these money comes from? Yes, from the money printing machine of the US government, the Federal Reserve bank, and the US treasury department and high politicians. My hope is that the war must end in Ukraine and from that point, there will be not much printing of the dollar anymore because there will no more need to patch Ukraine's war effort which literally burns money via the support of weapons and weapon systems just to fight Putin's pointless war which already caused a lot of trouble not only the loss of lives but also these economic turmoil which affected many people in this world as we all can feel it.
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Cornicks is great if only you got a strong set of teeth. I realized that 2 decades ago. I stopped eating them ever since.😅
BTW, I got a a new post in Steemit today.