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Hannah Howe

Thursday 23 May 1963

Anxious housewives rushed to the grocers yesterday to stock up on sugar as the price rocketed higher. And the sweet-tooth stampede might sweep the shelves clean today. In Peckham some women carried 20lbs of sugar home in prams. Political upheaval in Cuba has provoked the sugar crisis.

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mk30

A banyan tree growing on top of the ruins of an old sugar mill that shut down in the 1900s.

Located on the farm of @saltphoenix 's friend.

Here's a history of the mill and plantation it was a part of: www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/p_ka

It's in a very remote part of the island. It's hard to get to today, and I can't imagine how hard it was to get there back in the early 1900s. But that's how profitable it was to farm sugar.

Colonials established plantations in the middle of the Pacific ocean, on other people's land, growing a plant not from there, bringing in laborers from various other countries, and shipping the output to other places. All of this was vastly profitable, until it wasn't, and they shut everything down and left. That's extractivism. The banyan (another non-native plant) has the last laugh.

A gigantic tree growing on top of rock ruins in a jungly area
#hawaii#history#plants
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cobalt

Also, I forgot to say it’s awesome that people in Arizona don’t like to buy anything dated past the “best by” date. Thus, all bakery unsold by 9 pm goes on clearance for next morning. Same for any type of meat. And there are huge sales on pork chops too, often, because those same folks just don’t buy much pork in Arizona. #Pie #CreamPie #Sugar #Dessert

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cobalt

FYI I’m the only one in the family who likes coconut cream pie. Drew will sometimes eat it. So it’s unlikely I will make one myself. I also miss a good lemon meringue pie for this reason too and also lack of a Real bakery near me in Phoenix.

Note to @evoterra Barb’s Bakery used to have good pies but now I live 16 miles due West. And I found out that place supports MAGA. #Pie #CreamPie #Sugar #Dessert

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cobalt

Score! I like early mornings at a grocery when I can get something “day old” at around half price. Especially something I would not ordinarily buy but is a pleasant luxury. Keeping in mind I live nowhere near a “real” bakery, especially not a Real bakery (ok, I mean European, East Coast or Chicago-area bakery) here is my treasure today. Seriously, I’d never buy a grocery store pie at $15. But $7 is a solid maybe for coconut cream. #Pie #CreamPie #Sugar #Dessert

Hey, wait a minute, a piece is missing!

Oh, that would be my breakfast. 😜

Top half of covered coconut cream pie from grocery, on counter by sink. The labels are on top of the hard clear plastic cover. Left one shows $6.99 reduced for quick sale and the other the ingredients and $14.99 regular price. One piece of pie center bottom is missing.
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