Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 14, 2022

She’s a little too young to become a politician, but good start.

It’s all about the outrage.

It ain’t the squishing. It’s what happens NEXT that raises the price.

Ah, spiced cider. Yum!

Don’t worry, Kid. Plenty of others to go around. Just take your pick.

A lesser known Andrews Sisters song: In Apple Frenzy Time.

I know an old lady that swallowed a spider that wiggled and jiggled and giggled in cider. She swallowed the spider to eat the fly – I don’t know why she swallowed the fly…

The same reason that a can of vegetable soup costs $4.00 when a can of vegetables costs 99 cents.

Sorry, kid. The planet can only tolerate one Greta Thunberg at a time.

Takes a lot of apples and a gallon is cheaper than ONE beer at a stadium.

Has she ever tried to drink a whole apple?

And a linguistic note: In the US, unfermented apple juice is often known as “sweet cider” and fermented apple juice is contrasted as “hard cider”. But in various other places, only the fermented stuff is known as “cider”, and the unfermented is just “apple juice”.

That’s the same answer for gasoline and life saving medicine.

I wish our government would read up on economics.

Well, then, kid, you are just SOL. Economics, as portrayed by most economists, makes so little sense one cannot be outraged—except at the economists.

That’s capitalism.

At the “agritainment” place I get my apple cider doughnuts (amazingly good!), cider (also superb) has, in the last few years, gone from ~$4/gal to >$10. There is no way the cost of squishing the rotten ones has gone up that much!

Sounds like a democrat

That’s the main kind of economics these days. The kind that makes sense could be used to make intelligent policy choices, and that’s politically and socially unacceptable.

First words out of prof’s mouth on first day of Econ 101: “Demand is infinite; supply is finite; all else is commentary.”

Just wondering: Is there such a thing as inrage?

Even better- cider slushies.

Besides the increasing cost of growing the apples to begin with, the process of making cider requires energy and compliance with an ever-growing set of government regulations.

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