last weekend, my friend elyse and i were waiting for our bus to leave. we were hungry, so we were eagerly scanning the crowd for something yummy on someone's head. and out of nowhere, we saw GRAPES. grapes! i have never seen these in ghana. i don't think ghanaians even know what they are.
so elyse ran over to the woman to buy some. the woman had only one bunch on her head, the rest of her bowl was apples. she told elyse the price.
three grapes for five thousand. that's three grapes for about 40 cents. the bunch would cost 8 ghana cedis. that's a day and a half's wages. for a bunch of grapes.
so. let's do a price comparison. for the price of three grapes, you could choose to get any of these instead:
a backpack full of potatoes
50 minutes of internet
5 packages of biscuits (cookies)
2.5 eggs
10 pencils
4 text messages to america
12 boxes of matches
4-6 medium tomatoes
10 pure water sachets
1 roll of toilet paper
1 bar of soap
1 jar of peanut butter (well, the equivalent of one jar, sold in a poly bag)
1/3 bottle of beer
1/3 postage for a letter to america
1/2 loaf of bread
needless to say, we did buy a few grapes. they were AMAZING. and we saved the seeds. we will try to grow our own grapes so we can avoid this problem in the future. anyone out there have experience with vineyards?
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haha. I would have been so foolish as to spend my money on the whole bunch. :D good luck with the vines, I know nothing :(
ReplyDeleteOkay, just so you know, even in Ghana Potatos are cheap. (said by Favorite Aunt Patty - Elyse's Aunt - who grows potatos in Idaho.) Sad, but true. I'm glad you enjoyed the grapes. Sometimes one must splurge!
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