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Yeah at least it's not the great lime shortage of 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/upshot/why-everyones-talking-about-the-great-lime-shortage.html https:

Yeah at least it's not the great lime shortage of 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/upshot/why-everyones-talking-about-the-great-lime-shortage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/upshot/why-everyones-talk...

twblalock 9y ago
During the great lime shortage I continued to get a great deal on limes from 99 Ranch. The whole thing was a total joke.
- azinman2 9y ago
  The Chinese community has their own sub-market: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-crazy-cheap-in-chinatown-1466762400 https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-c...
- natecavanaugh 9y ago
  There are 99 ranch's in Australia?! I don't know why, but I love that. Even in the US, it's one of the best places to get produce.
toomanybeersies 9y ago
If you think those prices are bad, don't go to New Zealand. I have no idea why, but limes are extortionately expensive in New Zealand, even for imported goods. They're currently NZ$35 per kg (over US$10 per lb). It's standard to get a slice of lemon in your Corona (which are also extortionately expensive in NZ)
- lostlogin 9y ago
  Or grow them. They fruit twice a year as far as I can tell and they keep for ages. I planted a hedge of them and give away supermarket bags full regularly. Most things taste better with some lime juice. They require zero care and at the current 35+ degrees Celsius, are borderline a requirement for living.
  - mmjaa 9y ago
    One doesn't just "grow things" in New Zealand.
    - girvo 9y ago
      I dunno, our huge hedge of feijoa trees beg to differ.
      - mmjaa 9y ago
        I guess you got your license in order, eh citizen?
  - masklinn 9y ago
    > Or grow them. NZ prisons might be better than US's but that's not saying much.
    - pjc50 9y ago
      Someone's going to have to explain the lime police to those of us how aren't New Zealanders and have no idea what's going on here.
      - masklinn 9y ago
        Oh it's not a "lime police", NZ has nothing against limes specifically, there is no special treatment. It's just gardens in general which are illegal (without a license, obviously) https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/2nem47/can_you_have_a_garden_in_new_zealand/ https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/2nem47/can_you_... If limes (or anything else, like grass, or strawberries, or potatoes, or mint, ...) happen to grow on your property it's fine and you can collect them, but if you tend to them or there's evidence you planted them it's gardening, and the penalties can be steep. And police don't look kindly on non-native tasty edibles[0] which "just happen" to grow on the properties of unlicensed owners, as often as not the owner is assumed at fault and fined (though of course the harshest penalties like prison require positive evidence of guilt). [0] and NZ has very few native or pre-european plant edibles at all, let alone tasty ones: https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/plants-edible-native https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/plants-edible-native
madeofpalk 9y ago
I still remember my mum and grandparents talking and complaining about the absurd prices of bananas in... 2007?
- girvo 9y ago
  A cyclone destroyed quite lot of banana plantations in Queensland, which caused banana prices to shoot up to $12/kg

twblalock 9y ago

During the great lime shortage I continued to get a great deal on limes from 99 Ranch. The whole thing was a total joke.

azinman2 9y ago
The Chinese community has their own sub-market: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-crazy-cheap-in-chinatown-1466762400 https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-c...
natecavanaugh 9y ago
There are 99 ranch's in Australia?! I don't know why, but I love that. Even in the US, it's one of the best places to get produce.

toomanybeersies 9y ago

If you think those prices are bad, don't go to New Zealand. I have no idea why, but limes are extortionately expensive in New Zealand, even for imported goods. They're currently NZ$35 per kg (over US$10 per lb). It's standard to get a slice of lemon in your Corona (which are also extortionately expensive in NZ)

lostlogin 9y ago
Or grow them. They fruit twice a year as far as I can tell and they keep for ages. I planted a hedge of them and give away supermarket bags full regularly. Most things taste better with some lime juice. They require zero care and at the current 35+ degrees Celsius, are borderline a requirement for living.
- mmjaa 9y ago
  One doesn't just "grow things" in New Zealand.
  - girvo 9y ago
    I dunno, our huge hedge of feijoa trees beg to differ.
    - mmjaa 9y ago
      I guess you got your license in order, eh citizen?
- masklinn 9y ago
  > Or grow them. NZ prisons might be better than US's but that's not saying much.
  - pjc50 9y ago
    Someone's going to have to explain the lime police to those of us how aren't New Zealanders and have no idea what's going on here.
    - masklinn 9y ago
      Oh it's not a "lime police", NZ has nothing against limes specifically, there is no special treatment. It's just gardens in general which are illegal (without a license, obviously) https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/2nem47/can_you_have_a_garden_in_new_zealand/ https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/2nem47/can_you_... If limes (or anything else, like grass, or strawberries, or potatoes, or mint, ...) happen to grow on your property it's fine and you can collect them, but if you tend to them or there's evidence you planted them it's gardening, and the penalties can be steep. And police don't look kindly on non-native tasty edibles[0] which "just happen" to grow on the properties of unlicensed owners, as often as not the owner is assumed at fault and fined (though of course the harshest penalties like prison require positive evidence of guilt). [0] and NZ has very few native or pre-european plant edibles at all, let alone tasty ones: https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/plants-edible-native https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/plants-edible-native

madeofpalk 9y ago

I still remember my mum and grandparents talking and complaining about the absurd prices of bananas in... 2007?

girvo 9y ago
A cyclone destroyed quite lot of banana plantations in Queensland, which caused banana prices to shoot up to $12/kg