Everything went from kinda expensive to really expensive.

Turns 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.
  
  They’re putting huge tariffs on Switzerland too. Which makes the grinders and other shit Starbucks uses to make coffee in its shops.
  However, I’m pretty sure roasted beans and ground coffee at the grocery store is just price fixed to the cost of a cup at the megacorp coffee shops at this point.
  Fuck this place. And fuck it’s coffee industry.
  
  Are we sure this person isn't buying instant granules? At least to my Australian brain, a 25 fl oz cup of coffee (~739 mL in real units), is a patently insane size to buy from a cafe.
- It's actually because people are willing to pay it.
  Products are priced according to what people are willing to pay, not what they cost to produce.
  If you've ever sold drugs, you'd know this firsthand. So many suckers are proud to pay 500%+ markup on products and then praise me for selling it to them.
  
  Lol this person still believes in the free market.

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.
- Yeah where i am in Canada the price has jumped up significantly
  
  Same here. Coffee is crazy expensive.

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.
- My girl saw where the harvest wasn't great and we were anticipating tariffs. We stocked up on coffee late last year/early this year.
  The useless giant ass gun safe that came with our house is full of vacuum packed coffee.
  
  If it’s good, whole bean coffee, it should be frozen to prevent off-gassing.
- Better find lots of adopters, then.
- She can take caffeine pills for a fraction of the price.

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?"
- 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.
- Trump supporters should drink covfife instead.
  
  Covfefe

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?
- Eggs are more expensive but that's good actually, it was always good, it's good when eggs are expensive, it's good actually.
  
  See if eggs are cheap then the migrants we pay pennies to harvest them might be able to afford to eat! And that would be bad right you don't want BROWN people eating the eggs they harvest for YOU do you???
- It’s been interesting seeing a few rural communities rediscover the practice of farming their own eggs to sell to neighbors. Not even something that needs an enormous farming operation.

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've actually never tried it, but, it's described as pleasant. You have to roast the stems and leaves.
- If you really need caffeine, just take caffeine pills.
  Coffee is a very inefficient and expensive way to imbibe caffeine.
  
  Sometimes it's about the preparation ritual, not necessarily just the caffeine.
  
  You know, some people actually like the taste of coffee. I don't know what flavors caffeine pills come in, but i doubt that they are comparable to a nice, hot cup of cappuccino in the morning, and feeling the caffeine and the warmth while waking up.

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.
  
  You do know that not everyone is looking for a caffeine fix and there are people out there who do not drink coffee or tea, right?
  
  Tea’s okay, but it doesn’t create that warm, lovey feeling I get from coffee. It just doesn’t satisfy the way coffee does. Probably because tea has lower caffeine content?
  
  Americans don't drink as much of tea as Europeans. It annoys me, because I can't for example buy any black tea at my Costco and have to go to a different store, but they have entire aisle of nothing but coffee.

Eyoooooo!

Tarif make thing cost more?

"Someone needs to tell Trump the economy isn't just 14 years old"
Would be a great bumper sticker

Why's it feel like a bunch of Trump supporters are about to dress up in sombreros and start tossing coffee beans in the ocean

Isn't this because coffee harvests fell short due to drought caused by global warming?
- Also because of the tariff threat on Brazil. You know, the country responsible for a bit over 1/3 of the coffee that USA imports
  
  I'm surprised that it's not yet a common occurrence that when a seller learns that the buyer of goods is american, he simply marks the price up by 50% because of fuck you, thats why
- And floods. Read somewhere entire coffee fields were damaged or uprooted by heavy rains.

Hmmm, what happened in the past six months or so that could explain this.... HMMMMMM

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?

..the only way this could possibly be funny is if....fuck...

It's because useful idiots kept paying it.
Products are priced according to what people are willing to pay, not what they cost to produce.
Every moron telling you "they're a business and they need to make money!" is directly responsible for why things are they way they are.
- Besides paying services, the location and salaries no business needs more money than that to exist. It is advisable to have some reserves to cushion for an emergency or a needed investment but that does not require millions sitting in a bank account.
- No offense but you are aware that products are priced by where supply and demand intersect, right? The cost to produce does matter.