Glass jars piled like that make me feel uncomfortable
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I'm reading through all the comments and you seem to be the only one who has acknowledged what this post is actually about.
Everyone else is complaining about the price of pasta sauce.
Nah, you can bowl with those Rao's jars.
7.49 for fucking pasta sauce? Wtf
Raos is good. Pretty consistently top rated. I basically thought all jarred pasta sauces were garbage before I tried it.
…it does always hurt a little when I splurge on a jar though. Also, Costco sells two packs of the 32oz jars for just a bit more than this and it goes on sale frequently.
I think ALDI's Select pasta sauce is better for $3.60. Even at Costco price Raos is not worthed.
Raos is watery and overpriced.
Even Newman's Own (a non-profit) is $4. $6-$10 is normal in my area, and it's one of the least affluent areas of the country.
Like, where I am, the cheap classico sauce is about 3 bucks. And i dont doubt that the tomatoes they use come from Cali. Im across the continent, in a different country. I know some "ritzy" sauces here are encroaching on the 10$ mark. Its so fucked up
Damn for 18 bucks it better be orgasmic
im guessing the 'truffle" makes it expensive. if its the actual fungus i can see that.
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Spoiler: It's going to be pretty much the same as the $2 sauce.
It’s 8.50. It’s only 7.50 of you buy 5 other them or more.
Most expensive one I could find with a simple google search in Germany is € 12.54 per kg,
the ones pictured above are 680g, so for $ 7.49 that's $ 11.01 or € 9.55 per kg (at current exchange rate)
Average price for pasta sauce in Germany seems to be around € 5.00 / kg, but then the Rao's might be among the pricier sauces in the US?
Rao's might be among the pricier sauces in the US?
It is. It's a high-quality sauce made by a very famous restaurant in New York City. It's one of those few products that immediately stands out when someone tries a blind taste test on you.
Damn, Trump even put tariffs on imports from Krypton!
Campbells has to make back the money they spent buying it from private equity somehow
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Kroger actively wants their employees to do this. (Source: worked in this hellhole for 13 years. Would choose homelessness/starvation over going back)
Its a psycholigical trick to make you think its cheaper than it is. Intended to make you think subconciously "It can't be that expensive if they treat it this poorly."
I do think they picked the wrong product for this treatment considering shrink and high price. It should be shit like dvds and other durable products.
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I don't care how good it is, $8.50 for a jar of pasta sauce is highway robbery. It's like Bachan's BBQ sauce, sure it's good, but it ain't even close for those prices. I'd legit feel ripped off if I bought either.
The sign says "serving SoCal" so this is actually a below average price
Los Angeles grocery prices always make my eyes pop out of my head. It's just the cost of existing down there.
Shit is getting ridiculous here too. Luckily I've really gotten into cooking over the last five years or so. Fresh ingredients are still pricey, but much much much cheaper than what these corps are slopping out. I can make pasta or pizza sauce in these quantities fresh for under $2.
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As someone that spent the better part of their youth making other people money at a grocery store, I'm bummed that I never had to build a comically oversized pyramid of bean cans that:
A: A neurotic but lovable protagonist that is just trying to get through shopping day would make the whole stack implode by taking a single can.
Or
B: A random cat in a panic would scurry up and around it as I frantically keep the pyramid from collapsing. Once the cat has fled the scene I would utter a sigh of relief just before a dog who was after the cat would crash through the stack just in time for the manager to appear and scold me for the mess.
Cento peeled tomatoes and a little basil makes better sauce for less than 7.49 just saying
I really enjoy Rao's sauce ☺️
Rao’s is the most overrated pasta sauce on the market. Overpriced for no reason.
i get the hunts pasta sauce in a huge fuckin can for like a buck. Raos is definitely for people that think a banana costing 10 dollars is cheap and affordable.
Pre-made pasta sauce in general is pretty overrated. It's so easy to make your own pasta sauce, it's pretty much ready in the same time as it takes to heat up premade pasta sauce. Only real advantage is that you don't have to worry about seasoning
The real avantage is fewer dishes and less prep time before the actual cooking.
However I usually find that pasta water takes enough time to start boiling that I can just chop up the ingredients and start the sauce while that's happening.
With premade I've just chucked it in the hot pasta which heats it up enough AND cools down the pasta so I can eat it quicker.
Also locally made premade sauces in my country are 2-3 EUR which makes them actually cheaper than homemade because I usually put either mince or chicken in my sauces and those already cost more than the entire premade sauce lol. Of course homemade is way better but honestly sometimes I feel like I'd be saving money if I used premade.
I'm gonna say the customers did this. It looks like the bargain DVD bin at Wal-Mart.
You think a customer went into a Kroger, printed a price sign, took the time to move like 6 cases of sauce haphazardly into a unsafe pile and nobody said anything? Possible but unlikely.
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Cause I'm digging for the interesting stuff in the sauce bin.
Nah, this kind of display is called a dump bin. It's meant to look like a chaotic jumble, but doing it with jars seems like a bad idea.
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Really hoping the intent is that you use the taco noodles with the marinara.
Here I started typing up a comment asking what 'Taco noodles' were, then I looked more closely. What the fuck, I've never seen taco-flavored ramen before.
Here is my worst food abomination for you that I've ever seen. Yr welcome.
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Jar sauce costing 8+ dollars? What is their excuse? Gold flakes?
It's not even good sauce. Pour a couple of big cans of crushed tomatoes over some browned ground beef/pork, add lots of garlic and Italian herbs, salt & pepper, a few oz of red wine, and let it simmer all day.
Add more or less meat, perhaps mushrooms. I like to put in chopped spinach at the beginning, to let it break up into micro pieces, and amp up the nutritional value, but it's not necessary.
It's super easy, and way better than any jarred sauce, and much cheaper.
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If I remember someone from a few months ago, displays like this tend to sell better than well organized ones. I can't give any evidence other than remembering that statement though, so take it with a grain of salt.
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As someone who did 10 years in retail, this is the normal state of any display after being open to the general public for 20 minutes.
I saw Rao's get recommended as the second best sauce outta all the store brand sauces in the US rated by some of Italy's top chefs.
It isn't that good. Newman's Own is way better and, around here anyway, half the price of Rao's. But you can also very easily and for a lot less than a jar, make your own pasta sauce and make it as good as you want.
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Btw that sauce isn't worth the price. I tried it once, watery and bland.
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"Great Rao!"
- Pasta Sauce Afficionado, Superman
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