The most hilarious analysis of the doubles price rise in Trinidad. Dennis Allen is a master of oletalk! " Last week, on APR4, 2008, I received the following message from a crew of brederin who usually debate such matters of national import… Subject: Still want to buy doubles for $4 and $5? ...Feel FREE !!!!! Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:36:05 +0000> Hello Friends, > As a worker at ***, I will give you a small insight to what I would call > "Highway Robbery" > > The flour that most doubles vendors use (45kg) has been increased by > $60.00. Do you know how many doubles can be produced from a 45kg of flour? > > Let me tell you. 1,200 doubles, yes twelve hundred and some good doubles > vendors can get 1,500. > > So let's use 1,200. If your 45kg bag of flour has been increased by > $60.00..Do the math. > > OK OK, let me do it for you..Your doubles went up by 5 cents. > > Still want to buy doubles for $4 and $5? ...Feel FREE !!!!!To which I promptly dispatched the following response:i think its important to differentiate between a BARRA and a DOUBLES...as that would have a significant effect on the maths presented here... is it that 1200-1500 BARRA can be made with a sack of flour? or that amount of DOUBLES [2X barra?] and what is the average square inch surface area of the individual barra mentioned by this "analyst"? a morvant doubles has a noticeably larger square barra-age than a typical roundabout doubles--even though they are geographically identical to most casual doubles consumers... and what about debe doubles? fluffier than most north doubles, thus implying the addition of a rising agent, the cost of which has not been factored into this equation...Read the rest HERE!
"The doubles conspiracy"
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