Not sure about US prices, but coffee also got more expensive in general because of bad harvests. Seems to be climate change related. Which Trump is doing everything to accelerate.
Didn’t know that! Yes even the cheap coffee has gone up by a few dollars. To the point where I buy whatever is on sale.
Taco is bringing to Americans how it felt to live under Soviet government.
Turn out that putting a 50% tariff on the biggest coffee producer in the world (to try to interfere with Bolsonaro's trial) raises the price of coffee, who would've thunk
Price of the coffee is the smallest part of that cup of coffee though, probably less than a dollar. The vast majority of it is everything else from facilities to work and leeches cutting their profits
Yes but every middleman will add as much as possible to profit and blame it on the tariffs.
Yeah, just waiting for the record profits of the coffee importers and processing plants.
Eyoooooo!
My wife is going to shit kittens if coffee prices spike, only drug she does.
Hate all this, prepared to suffer. These MAGA dipshits will have to feel real pain, for some time. The Great Depression ushered in 60-years of liberal legislators. And just like fascism and tariffs, we gotta learn again now that our grandparents are dead.
Glad I don't drink coffee. My heart goes out to those who do and did not bring this upon themselves.
Have you heard of this drink called tea? It's isn't grown in the US either.
This just shows how pernicious Democrat influence really is! Despite not having a sitting president, and carrying a majority, Biden's insipid influence STILL has the price of coffee higher than it should have been.
Republicans are considering various solutions, varying from bombing coffee-producing nations to calling it "fake news", or just saying "Coffee? You guys still drink that stuff?"
Trump supporters should drink covfife instead.
Covfefe
I tried it. Covfife is better! New and improved! Now with 15% more best!
I'm just over here wishing I could get 49% of the population to care about food becoming cost-prohibitive even when their guy is in office, because all I heard about was how great the economy was doing in 2024, even though most Americans were finding that staples were becoming too expensive to buy in a grocery store.
All we heard from Democrats on that was that they were oh-so-powerless (which we can observe is bullshit, watching how Donald has governed this year) or to, you know, just be joyful.
The partisans are happy to make excuse after excuse when their guy is holding the reins of power, whether Republican or Democrat.
..the only way this could possibly be funny is if....fuck...
I live in Ireland and the laptop I bought for €1000 over a year ago currently costs €1600. Prices & gouging going up everywhere.
What about eggs though? What about the price of eggs? Eggs are very important. Some people can't live without eggs! Some people apparently only eat eggs.
Surely that's worth a little fascism, as a treat?
My favorite part of the egg saga is the recent executive order - where trump wants to pressure California to reduce regulations on eggs. Despite the fact that, a large part of the spikes in egg prices and availability were directly influences by massive cullings caused by poorly regulated and unhealthy environments.
Trump's 50% Brazil coffee tariff expected to rejig trade, send more beans to China
A 50% tariff on some Brazilian products, including coffee, will begin on August 6
It's actually not in force for a few more days. I would also assume that insofar as is possible, importers will import stock ahead of the deadline, so it'll probably delay impact.
Why not just bulk up on stock and then raise prices without necessarily needing to to maximize profits but blaming the tariffs as of day one? I don't see why this wouldn't happen
Competition, same thing that normally limits prices. You don't need to "blame" tariffs to raise prices
you can just raise them. If you're the only vendor of coffee in the US, you can increase prices without losing sales. But I'd expect that anyone who selling coffee or another item that can be stored and is going to have a significant increase in tariffs will try to get stock in before that. Raise prices and you lose sales to other parties.
Xheets like this should not have the date cut off.
Sure, prices are probably still rising across the board for Americans, but I myself complained about the same thing (coffee almost double) months ago. Maybe even still in 2024.
They shouldn't be posted here at all, since they aren't memes, right?
What is a meme? How do you define 'meme'? If you're talking about what you can repost, what you can shitpost, what you can share and upvote, then 'meme' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
Memes are satyrical portrayals of reality through a distorted lens that makes it seem more lighthearted or humourous.
One dude informing a dumbass of what is happening is not really a meme any more than any conversation is.
Thanks, Mr. Dawkins, but I'm obviously referring to the colloquially-understood definition, which definitely does not include an ordinary exchange of two messages on a social media platform, lol.
Oh my God. You didn't even recognise that bit as being ripped straight from the matrix did you. I'm so old.
Yaupon Holly is a native North American plant that contains caffeine. Was traditionally used by Indians as a tea or coffee. Also used during the civil war as a substitute.
I have found it around old homeplace ruins in the deep south. It is also a common landscaping plant. Need to plant some around the house.
How does it taste?
I grow it, but I've only drank it once. It's not too different from Yerba Maté. Which is to say -it tastes like an herbal tea made of holly leaves.
Eugh, maté is an acquired taste that I can't acquire
https://youtube.com/shorts/CS9BeMovHk8
apparently, it’s bad!
I've bought some yaupon tea bags before. It was actually pretty good. I like black tea, and don't like coffee though, so people expecting a coffee taste may not like it. It's very comparable to black tea, IMO. I also have a yaupon bush in my yard, but never tried processing and ingesting it.
Isn't this because coffee harvests fell short due to drought caused by global warming?
And floods. Read somewhere entire coffee fields were damaged or uprooted by heavy rains.
Why don't they just move the floods to where the droughts are to solve both problems?
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