On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Greg Folkert writes: > > Ratio of White flour to Wheat flour? What do you guess? > > > 6-7 white flour train cars to 1 Wheat flour. We are talking 160,000 > > pounds each train car. Each car being a 100 ton car. > > Sounds like a plausible ratio. However, you're still talking carload > quantities. The difference is not likely to make the white flour more than > a few percent cheaper than the whole wheat (and the cost of the flour isn't > that large a fraction of the price of the bread anyway).
In actuality, white flour in those quantities is actually more expensive. There is more storage costs, processing costs[0], extra pre-cautions for contamination. Wheat has those as well, but fewer of them in less scale quantities. I though maybe you (or anyone) would have caught on to where I was going with this. > Of course, there was a time when white bread was the fancy, expensive > stuff... Which is exactly why the US (in general) has a preference for it. [0] == Think for instance, trying to get the evidence of a ground mouse or rat out of the white flour? Yes, it is gross to think about. There are FDA regulations about it. Same for hot-dogs and other ground meat. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
