Things that are inexplicably cheap

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Inspired by the thread about things that are inexplicably expensive!

My pick is bananas. You can buy a huge bunch of bananas for a few pence - I'm always shocked when i get to the till and find I've got about 22 bananas for less than a quid exaggerating but they've been imported from halfway round the world - yet the British apples next to them are twice as much.

What do you find inexplicably cheap?

Non branded pregnancy tests, you can get 3 in a box for a quid. Blows my mind when I see women putting £15 pregnancy tests in their baskets in the shops. I have to force myself not to tell them to go to the cheapie shops

WitchWindow I always buy Fairtrade bananas and they are surprisingly cheap.

Pig's heart and lungs, £1.50 for a full pluck at my local butcher.

I agree that a lot of food is inexplicably cheap. I was eating a deep pan cheese and tomato pizza the other night,from Iceland (it was lovely btw!) and I found myself wondering how on earth it could be selling for only one pound. I couldn't have made one myself for that price!

Bananas are cheap yes, 78p a kilo or 14p each at Asda. Ridiculously cheap.

Funny what previous poster said about the taste, I agree, Fyffes taste so much better if you can get them. I got a bunch from the company shop for 10p, probably Waitrose excess stock, and they were amazing.

Bog standard Tesco are a bit meh.

Thought of one, M&S lambs liver. About 70p a pack, cut really thin and usually missing gristle and tubes (😂) and an absolute bargain.

Alcohol can be really cheap

Kids toys. I remember when I was a kid in the 80s we would only get toys for and birthdays, now most parents can afford to buy toys around the year and at massive quantities in most cases.

Chocolate
Coffee
Avocadoes
Almonds
Cereal
Plastic toys

Ginger, just bought enough to spark up a couple of stir fries and it was 6p. 6p! I mean you literally can't buy anything for that!

Am amazed that anyone would need a multi pack of pregnancy tests. Are they used all at once or over a period of time?

All the posters getting excited about cheap chicken - really depressing. This and this and this is why it's so cheap.

If it's 'cheap' for you, put your hand in your bloody pocket and buy free range.

@dogsdinnerlady if you were TTC it would make sense to have a multipack

90p flip flops in primark

Nothing is inexplicably cheap.
Everything that is cheap is cheap for a reason that explains it.

• Cheap clothes: slave labour and sweat shops
• Cheap food: underpaid workers/exploitative trade deals from growing/picking/transport/selling
• Cheap electronics: more slave labour from mines to factories.
• Cheap housing: slumlords
• Cheap entertainment: piracy

Etc etc.

Good pun @dogsdinnerlady

Fresh salmon fillets. In the 60s/70s salmon was an absolute luxury. Seafood then was as cheap as chips and now i's the reverse.

Chicken and pork are v cheap now. And relatively salad all year round.

Chocolate multipacks. You can get 4 bars of chocolate for £1. When i had a paperround in 1990 inused to buy one for 25p!

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

All the posters getting excited about cheap chicken - really depressing. This and this and this is why it's so cheap.

If it's 'cheap' for you, put your hand in your bloody pocket and buy free range.

I agree with the principle behind what you are saying. The problem is that for a lot of people ethics can't be a factor in what they feed their family. Poverty comes with little to no choice unfortunately. And it creates the vicious circle we witness in cheap labour and cheap products.

@dogsdinnerlady I'd prefer to buy 3 for £1, than 1 for £15, even if I only wanted 1.

The chocolate bars are probably half the size they were in 1990.

Milk is shockingly cheap, and the farmers have really suffered during the lockdown. Some were having to throw milk away. The cows still needed to be milked but there was noone to buy the milk.

@AgeLikeWine

Pre-covid air travel is an obvious example. It should not be possible to fly to the other side of Europe for £/€ 39.

Meat is far too cheap, particularly Intensively-reared poultry & pork. For those of us who wish to eat it, meat should be a treat, for both animal welfare and human health reasons.

My DP is going to Spain in July and the flights cost £29 return, and he bought them last week

@OhTheRoses

Good pun *@dogsdinnerlady*

Fresh salmon fillets. In the 60s/70s salmon was an absolute luxury. Seafood then was as cheap as chips and now i's the reverse.

Chicken and pork are v cheap now. And relatively salad all year round.

You have to be joking - salmon is crazily expensive!

They’re not inexplicably cheap. It’s perfectly explainable if you look. Supermarkets screw producers down on price until they’re paying the price they know will get people through the door. Often leaves producers making a loss yet the same people who buy all this food disagree with farming subsidies. People don’t seem to get that food is cheap because of these subsidies. They’re not just there to subsidise the latest Range Rover

Paracetamol and ibuprofen. Can be under 20p in Home Bargains and Savers etc. Other than that I cant think of much which is universally cheap

I find Fabric Conditioner inexplicably cheap compared to Laundry Detergent.

I use so much of it though so I'm not complaining!

Whole chicken!