How 2 Be(an) Like me

[@MrCrackbear]

Philip, you truly are a real human bean

[@saucelessbones5872]

Do I smell a right wingger

[@kodinamsinh1267]

@@saucelessbones5872 Bruh, he's just making a pun, why do you have to bring politics into the conversation?

[@Sadwaffles]

And a real hero

[@oldman4443]

Back against the wall and odds

[@MrCrackbear]

​@@saucelessbones5872 🤨

[@thecavedman]

"Especially as it was also cheaper, a fact itself that makes food taste sweeter." Doesn't matter if it's a video about the optimal public toilet design or beans, Philip's always speaking the real truth about life.

[@thecavedman]

I'll never forget the summer of 2011 when I scored 60 500g tubs of soon-to-expire hummus for the insane price of 1NZD each. It may not have been the greatest hummus of all time, but I froze those bad boys up and continued to eat that hummus with a smile on my face all summer long. No hummus has ever quite matched up since...

[@spiderjerusalem8505]

@@thecavedman, what's hummus

[@xyl9l]

@@spiderjerusalem8505 basically beans paste

[@thecavedman]

A Middle Eastern delicacy made out of GARBANZO BEANS! Try it and you may be surprised. Enough about hummus though, this is a vid about sweet, sweet beans.

[@spiderjerusalem8505]

@@thecavedman, brits and their beans 🙄

[@DragovianFeline]

The lamest part about inflation is that stuff goes up on prices when things are bad, yet when things get better the prices remain the same…

[@ab-oj9wv]

Of course. That's required for plutocrats to benefit from the lag between inflation and salaries. Can't rob the lowers classes without the price ratchet.

[@mr.funkyright]

that's why your grandparents payed for stuff at a 50th of the price.

[@Ryan-ct3rv]

Deflation is actually worse for the economy than inflation. An annual inflation rate of 2-3% is what most central banks target.

[@friendofp.24]

Yeah that's how the economy works... are you 13?

[@deneb_tm]

The main problem isn't this, it's that wages haven't gone up accordingly in the past 50 years, and have in fact pretty much flatlined since 2008.

[@MrJinxmaster1]

For the aldi bean scam, save the cardboard, go to self service, scan the box then put it and the 4 normal cans on the scale, it will weigh the same, and if anyone asks "they fell out of the box when I picked them up"

[@linecraftman3907]

Outscammed

[@komplaints7893]

Genius

[@sam02h]

r.e. 6:28 In my first year, we had a co-op on campus. Although it's not the cheapest, it saves you from walking down a hill for 40 minutes. As I walked through the alcohol section on my first week, I had my phone with me. I calculated every [ml of alcohol per pound] (volume * percentage / price ) Suddenly, I had my eyes set on one "co-op crisp and dry apple cider". There was something beautiful about it! For a mere 1.20 each, two bottles would get me through an entire evening of CS with the lads. For about a month, I did this every day. As soon as I realized that the cider was the reason I was shitting out more liquid than I was consuming per day, I stopped. After a year, I returned to the co-op in a nostalgic mood. When I found the cider, I was shocked to see the price was now £3.60 for a single 2L bottle. This country is a disgrace...

[@Bella1899]

@@kliksphilip yes it truly was

[@tree427]

sounds like a golden age

[@m1chaelsc]

great story.

[@shammiboy6354]

Gotta be bath

[@SK83RJOSH]

As someone from Sweden I'm shocked and appalled that: 1. Our groceries aren't allowed to sell high volume alchie 2. Our alchie is extremely expensive, probably 4x that 3. The main thing to experience inflation here is... chicken... everything else is kinda stable besides the obvious like gas Not sure if I want to move or not now.

[@tralphstreet]

This video gave me a reality check that the rest of the world is not used to inflation like we are in Argentina, where a weekly price increase is to be *expected*.

[@Caspitein]

So how do you deal with that? Can you afford less and less every week? If you have a weekly price increase, how does the economy not collapse due to people not being able to afford anything anymore?

[@tomasavendanozacarias5205]

@@Caspitein wages increase about 50% to 90% of the way with inflation most of the time, unless you are a teacher where you gotta go on strike every month to get the 20% pay rise you have to get to survive, life gets slightly worse but survivable at some point you get fucked and fall off that wage "increase" treadmill and you gotta start begging and grabbing from the trash containers to survive

[@santumChannelYes]

yeah, i remember reading about how people were panicking because inflation in the us went up to 8%!!! ...meanwhile here we are at 70% lmao (quick edit: i realise the circumstances are different, but still)

[@tomasavendanozacarias5205]

amen master, amen

[@tralphstreet]

@@Caspitein Precisely, you can afford less and less every week. That's why many people just buy everything they need for the month at the start of it, so their salary is more profitable. Wages increase as well of course, but not at the same rate as everything else, so you become poorer and poorer. My dad in fact, has worked on his position for about 25 years or so, and he's earning less than a fourth than when he started. It's nuts.

[@smallbrains123]

Thanks for the laughs, have a 4-pack of Aldi beans on me in these tough times.

[@kliksphilip]

Thank you! I will be able to get 7 of the budget beans from Lidl next time they're in stock. You've kept me going another week

[@Tikomer]

This is the kind of content I am subbed for.

[@Honir4]

same

[@coyle102]

You know I've been keeping track of inflation by the price of Lidl's chicken pops for years they've been a stable 99 cent and as the prices of everything rose they kept going up by 5-10 cents a week

[@nicnac7579]

I like how phillip can talk so calmy about things i'm very scared of. It's calming idk why

[@leebayliss2692]

Why are you scared of beans?

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

@@leebayliss2692 There's nothing more frightening than British cuisine.

[@popcorny007]

@@leebayliss2692 Why are you not scared of beans?

[@11matt555]

@@leebayliss2692 You aren't?

[@_Umut]

the official (aka sugarcoated) inflation rate for the first half of 2022 is 80% here in turkey, so i guess there’s always a worse case scenario lol

[@nutgamingdoesntexist]

same here in my country bro, the milk price just doubled itself everywhere

[@Dapplication]

I mean, we are the worst case scenario of what could happen if shit hits the fan

[@Monolitus7]

more like 200% lmao

[@robinrai4973]

Holy cow that is some convincing upscaling, that had me fooled for a solid 5 minutes

[@Honda628]

I'm so happy that you've bean in my life lately

[@t1nkerium]

Oh how I've waited for another food video from you!

[@moho472]

Funny thing, I'm also going through a scenario quite similar to yours. In my area of Canada, we used to have 4 for $5 deals on the premium store brand Mac & Cheese. However, as inflation peaked at 8.1% I've noticed the brand would either be out of stock, or priced individually for $2. Nobody buys Kraft Dinner unless it's in a pack of 12 or if the only Mac & Cheese brand left on the shelves, as they're quite pricey individually. They're basically Heinz Beans but in Mac & Cheese form. I do love me some Mac & Cheese, but I found that buying the cheese powder and macaroni separately made more economical sense compared to just buying the boxes. I guess inflation will stick with us for quite sometime. Wish you the best in these trying times, and thank you for the video upload :)

[@Kaktanternak]

Here in Poland the price of electricity goes up every few months and I already pay 2x more than two years ago, and it's gonna go up again. Not only that, some government douche when asked about heating prices, as heating season is approaching, said that "17 degrees is perfectly fine" and "encouraged to save on heating". I despise people that people so detached are in control of everything in the country. I guess it's like this everywhere but it drives me nuts. Inflation is apparently 16%, but groceries went up like 20-30% and got shrinked as well. At work they adjusted salaries to apparently help us and gave me 5% 'increase' woohoo

[@freddygoodman]

Hearing people talk about Aldi and Lild outside of Germany feels … weird.

[@FitchInks]

same.

[@HoloFizz]

I don't know how anyone can survive off of beans alone and keep their sanity. Are you ok? Edit: 5:05 No, I don't think he is.

[@AlFredo-sx2yy]

does he sound sane to you?

[@ProgEnjoyer397]

Ross Scott from accursed farms is a classic example

[@astral_ghxst]

don't worry, I've heard he eats pizza too sometimes

[@WiiFitGOTY]

I ate nothing but rice and black beans for 3 years to save money. Now I'm used to it. It helps to have a goal in mind.

[@downwardtumble4451]

He’s British don’t worry

[@Zixye]

never did i think i'd be met with baked beans and an existential crisis in the same video

[@SFCommanderSFM]

Now that I went to college I'll have to start eating like you. Thanks for the guide you're a real hero

[@Die-Coughman]

Good luck

[@SFCommanderSFM]

@@Die-Coughman thanks man

[@MultiDemo007]

Thank you Phil, doing god's work. Our ALDI in Australia charges $0.65 per their own brand beans, 38 Pence for you lot. However, our wages are much higher in Australian Dollars, so our Bean to Income Ratio (BIR), is a little better than yours in the mother country. Come on down

[@Fattts]

I don’t have any ALDI stores near me, but I’ll check the US BIR based on Hannaford baked beans next time I go shopping. Hopefully this comment chain will result in a global revelation on international baked bean prices!

[@MultiDemo007]

2024 Feb- Annual Bean price check. ALDI beans are now $1.09 AUD. This is getting out of hand!

[@MultiDemo007]

NOVEMBER 24- Beans have hit a high of $1.49 in ALDI today. Two years from $0.65 to $1.49 is crazy! I have noticed Tuna at ALDI is still priced at $1.29 (and seemingly has been for at least a year+), perhaps this is a loss leader for ALDI? I can live with the price of beans going up but considering how much tuna I eat, this would be a disaster if they were to go up!

[@JavonAnonimni]

Please Philip, make more videos like this, just a 10 minute video of you going around the shop or the kitchen with a camera and talking about your decision making and thoughts on this would be interesting for two reasons. First, Britain is just different enough from continental Europe and your low store prices astonish me every single time. And it's nice to see what stores in Britain offer. Second reason: you have a similar calming vibe and the ability to make random topics interesting. This is similar to bald and bankrupt, but he has a completely different channel.

[@Leonardo-ik9fx]

Yeah its astounishing i used to live in France and living here in UK now, groceries are so much cheaper yet people here still complain so much xD

[@pedroluiz8019]

I really need to understand this mind that is fulled only by canned beans. I need to understand how it works.

[@kodinamsinh1267]

I’ve bean feeling really down lately, leave it up to Philip to bring up my mood by uploading

[@mmmako]

Ah, this explains the demise of Fart Master.

[@broomguy7]

In Canada, our chain grocery stores are basically all under investigation for illegal conspiracy to raise prices. It looks like it's been going on for 15+ years, and it has basically been confirmed since the largest chain tried giving away $20 gift cards to improve their public reception. The investigation is specifically into the price of bread, but if competitors are colluding to raise the prices there, it is very likely that they are doing it for other items too. Whether anything is done about it is another matter, since our government has proven to be uninterested and incapable when it comes to managing monopolies and conspiracy within other industries (like telecommunications).

[@queuedjar4578]

Weird that it's an illegal conspiracy to raise prices in a recession. The only reason why prices have to increase for a business to be able to run is because of the effects of government price ceilings and floors. If the government wants to investigate, they'll have to investigate their own price manipulations themselves.

[@friendofp.24]

God, we fucking NEED this is in America.

[@Magiccc]

Thank you for providing me with yet another video to keep me company at night

[@rumbazumba3189]

Literally my favorite series

[@naihwong8504]

So if another customer comes, and takes one of the four packs of beans, opened it up, and seperated the cans, they would sell for the larger price? Are you sure they were "out of stock" and not just the store owner opening them up to make more money haha

[@steed3590]

...well yes, obviously. That's the point. The faux deal.

[@K3end0]

It probably goes even deeper than that. Maybe the bean multipacks arent even getting made at the same rates as before, increasing the chance of them going out of stock soon er and faster so more people get beaned with the bigger price.

[@der_timon7024]

I Love just irl talking like this!!!!!!!

[@ItslennyDe]

wait is the price per 100g not legally required on the price tags in the uk? I pretty much exclusively shop by that here in Germany

[@popflashpanic]

Pretty sure it is in supermarkets

[@gunneone]

I'm pretty sure you are the only person on youtube that can make a video on bean prices that will entertain me.

[@BamboosGood]

I could listen to you talking about anything for hours it's so much more entertaining than finding information out any other way

[@Isdale]

Please never stop making these kinds of videos

[@edwardtoast8284]

Can we pleeeeeeease have a bean update in 2025! There's are some of my fav videos :)

[@epicbapplizer5515]

5:15 I've been feeling this too. I used to go to Sainsburys to get the stuff Lidl didn't have, but now they've price matched virtually everything I'd go to Lidl to save on (like the £1.89 beef mince), I just do all my shopping there instead.

[@TheInfectous]

part of the reason other stores can be so cheap is because they serve a higher volume of customers and if the only reason the expensive store has cheap products is price matching... well you might be voting for a situation where you have no more cheap option left.

[@benjaminclehmann]

227 grams isn't necessarily an indication that it dropped from 250 grams, because 227g = 0.5lb. No clue how common it is for goods to be nice round numbers in imperial units but not in the labeled metric units in the UK, but it's pretty common here (our larger butter sticks come in at 454g, which is 1 pound)

[@Katze822228]

my weekly grocery prices in Germany went up from 20-25€ a year ago to 30-40€ now. Many things i buy are twice as expensive as they used to be. The cheapest noodles went from 0.39€ to 0.89€, butter went from around 1€ to 2.29€ and cheese is around 70% more expensive. And most other things like bread, yoghurt and eggs went up by 20% or 30%. That's pretty much all i buy. Luckily the beer is still cheap, it only went from 0.59€ to 0.64€ per 0.5l. I buy at Aldi too but we never really had discounts in the first place and i also did not notice any "shrinkflation" here. That might be because of the products i buy though.

[@SamSayaz]

I love these kinds of analysis videos Philip, I could imagine this being a presentation for an a level business study. Its been quite a while since you've shouted out 2klik on your brother's account; 3kilk, perhaps with your next video you could put a pop up at the end linking to this video? I'm sure many people would watch!

[@SamSayaz]

@@kliksphilip well you've proved you're capable of doing it. KZbin seems to be going well for you now, but who knows if it'll still be around in 10 or 20 years times. Maybe if you get the time, or to stretch it out over a couple years, you could perhaps do an open university course! Up to you tho, it's always good to plan for the future. Also I realised I meant to say kliksphilip not 2klik

[@_gamma.]

As someone from the Midwest US, that Sainsbury’s reveal was scandalous

[@MetalAllDayAllNight]

Cool peek into England's grocery stores. We do not have any of those here in Canada, as I'm certain you don't have our stores over there

[@limemyth]

This video was awesome and I really enjoyed it! I've had my own share of problems with the grocery price inflation that's been going on at my country recently, so this was a fun and relatable watch. But also as I've never really commented much on any of your videos, other than being there for the unified toilet video premiere, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you again for the years of awesome content that I've enjoyed. Whenever I've been in a horrid mood, watching your videos always helped me get through whatever I was going through, and I can say the same about your and your dad's music. I've always seen you as a down-to-earth and honest guy, and your sense of humor and style of content always really appealed to me. It's like whatever the topic of the video is, whether it's a retrospective on a generation of GPUs, or your adventures in digitizing VHS tapes, or in this case an overview of inflation on the price of canned beans, it'll always pique my interest because of how you present the topic in question and talk about it. I'm honestly kind of baffled that you get (or used to get) some jerks hating on you for almost no reason, because I've always seen you as such a kind-hearted individual. Thank you so much for the entertainment, Philip. May fortune shine bright upon you.

[@J.F.K.O]

in Denmark we have a budget chain called Netto they announced that they would put a price loft on 130 products and i ofc instantly thought that is was only the expensive branded stuff, and none of the stuff i bought. But i was wrong at least half of them are stuff that i buy regularly and none of those are the expensive brand stuff. The only weird thing is that i think they are the only ones doing that

[@fraser21]

Coming from Canada, it's absolutely insane how cheap even your new expensive items are. I kept having to check the conversion just to be sure I wasn't crazy.

[@LeafMaltieze]

I work at a grocery store. I work in a few different places, but I man the Customer Service counter sometimes. A few months ago a customer returned a can opener. They had their receipt, and it showed they had purchased the can opener 4 months prior, and they had paid $7.99 for it. It was currently listed in the store at $12.99. Yesterday it was $15.99. Prices for everything are going wild everywhere.

[@harrypotter1989]

As a guy living in Turkey, i can relate you effortlessly. If you have bean lived here you would go crazy(like most people do)

[@hellelujahh]

Hey Philip, would you be so kind as to enable automatic captions on this video? Just the ones KZbin generates from speech would be very helpful. I have no idea why they don't just always generate those, but apparently they only do when enabled by the creator. KZbin, pls fix?

[@hellelujahh]

Thank you Phil!

[@hellelujahh]

@@kliksphilip Oh, interesting - maybe they take that long to generate. I was here a couple of minutes after you published and the option to turn them on was disabled ("captions unavailable"). Then I came back a few times, and after 10 minutes or so the option appeared. I thought it was you, but apparently it's KZbin being weird as usual 🙃

[@KrissFliss]

Here in Norway you can see on the lables how mutch it costs per kilo.

[@je-4013]

Same with here in Australia

[@DelNiceBeto]

could it be cheaper to buy the dry beans and make them yourself? Where I live most legumes give a better deal if you buy them dry in a bag.

[@hellelujahh]

But that would be cooking, we can't have that!

[@Henrix1998]

Certainly

[@motboy8]

It's bean time baby

[@tmtmtg]

I like Philips signature catchphrase: "Its beanin time!"

[@goldlaughtrasharchives]

and after bean time? you guessed it, i'ts more bean time

[@applepiexpto]

@@tmtmtg Then everyone on the store began crouch walking screaming ""Its beanin time!"

[@matthijskkr]

I've noticed that inflation is more severe in the cities. Prices have doubled in some cases at stores in my nearest city, while the stores near where I live have been under 10% for most products I wanted to buy a 300ml smoothie today, until I saw that is was 2,20 euros! "Ridiculous" I thought to myself.

[@jamontoast]

I just moved to Hanoi to teach and it seems I couldn't have picked a better time. My family have resorted to drying racks because they can't afford to use the tumbledryer this winter, and my friend's mother has bought electric blankets to avoid turning the heating on! I am happy to say that expensive vodka here is £4 for 1L and beers are 60p. And I can afford to put the fans on. I can't imagine the misery of living in London on a kilksphilip budget. I think it might be time I learn Vietnamese.

[@jacobjohnson4785]

£4 for 1 Litre Looks like Im moving to Vietnam

[@DJoppiesaus]

I am from the Netherlands and I was on holiday in England last August, and I gotta say, your supermarkets are cheaper. In ASDA you can get the cheapest 800g wholemeal bread for like, 39p, and in the Netherlands that's 1,09 EUR(96p atm). Same for beans, without sauce, the cheapest seems to be around 0,58 EUR(51p). Garlic bread for 32p(unsure about NL, but at least 0,80 EUR), canned tomatoes for 25p(NL: 0,48 EUR) And then spaghetti rings... 16p! mother of god... I was so astounded I took photos of the price tag. In that regard I'd love to live in the UK!

[@Oggy2295]

A most engaging and eloquent discussion on the price of beans. This type of rhetoric deserves to be held in the greatest of chambers for dialogue and free speech!

[@CodeF53]

Good god I hate seeing this inflation, coming to fear the job I am studying for will no longer exist by the time I get out of school.

[@TheTodfather]

Philip, I would LOVE to see you do a bean tasting video, maybe a 5-6 different brands/shops and guess what beans are what!

[@NixKanal528]

Learning to cook is one of the best skills for saving money and eating healthier. Look for cheap dried beans, lentils, chickpeas, and rice, get a pressure cooker. Cook large quantities, portion then store in fridge or freezer, make spreadsheets for recipes and cost calculations.

[@Khunark]

thank you Nix K

[@orangutanenthusiast5631]

Is this even cheaper when accounting for refrigeration?

[@hochx]

As a German, I love how ppl from England like to talk about our supermarket chains lol

[@Bella1899]

Die sind doch schon lange global :)

[@dumdumwilde2428]

In my Head I like to think Philip is Actually that height in 5:05

[@PMARC14]

The bean example is great as an economics student. Substitutions and products sneakily changing hide inflation, and it doesn't help when the inflation calculations ignore a variety of other factors that are considered "transitory" or will have their respective inflation passed into other products eventually (such as fuel and transport costs). Really I am concerned about the times ahead and I would have to ask somebody who lived through the 70s period of inflation (and maybe studied it) what they think about this.

[@TheUnchainedMind]

I knew that KZbin wasn't as profitable as it once was, but for even a star of Philip's caliber to be living off of baked beans... The end is truly nigh.

[@r2in360]

I could listed to Philip rant about bean prices for hours and enjoy every second of it.

[@hotharvey2]

227g is quite a normal weight really - converting to imperial we get 0.5lbs (8oz)

[@malevolentia28]

Watching this through Turkey's hyper inflation is surreal. Prices change weekly to double or worse these days

[@Lechosus]

Being nowhere near UK and living in argentina I find this very interesting, wish we had those prices here.

[@cheefboss9896]

Glad you got your beans situation sorted mate, cheers!

[@Nanoo1]

i love these videos, thanks philip

[@TheCptNutter]

I've noticed the supply chain issues with aldi and lidl. Lots of items I need are never in stock. So frustrating and like others it's starting to push me towards other stores like tesco.

[@Burgerplayer3920]

Thank you Philip, yet another great video!

[@1000_Gibibit]

Very useful to get an overview of inflation consequences/abuse! You don't really read about the details of these things in the papers even though it impacts so many people. Have to say those prices are still a steal compared to beans in the Netherlands. Cheapest beans in tomatosauce I can find here is 700g for 81 eurocents at Aldi, and that's in a glass pot so very heavy to buy in bulk. This is from a cursory search online though, and discount supermarkets usually don't have a very accurate index of their complete inventory online. Now I wish I had a more complete overview of what happened to prices in Dutch supermarkets in the past year. Might start saving receipts and putting this in spreadsheets in order to stage a revolt against the supermarkets when local bean prices go up more than inflation (again) :o) Though maybe prices going up more than inflation isn't that strange when energy prices have gone up four-fold or something. If anything it's a miracle that inflation isn't higher. We're probably playing pretend again like usual with our financial system. *cough cough* housing market *cough*

[@pumpernickel1955]

the powerful all over the world dont want us to own anything which is why the housing problem is as it is right now. if you dont own a house its much easier to control you. if politicians really cared about the issue the first thing they would do is outlaw any foreign investment into buildings which is the primary factor for alot of the housing issues. people even started going back to suburbs and towns because the prices of anything remotely close to the city are too high.

[@jlfazmo]

My favourite series lets goo

[@kemasuk]

My favorite baked beans brand here in the US also changed, but I guess it's overall more expensive. B&M Beans used to be based in Portland Maine, and is now owned by a company B and G Foods based in Iowa and also "3rd party factories" in Minnesota and Illinois as of December 2021.

[@Zazzlebips]

I used to live next to a k + k (Germany) and they only sold Heinz beans. 1.50 is way too much for a simple can of beans!!! The store in general almost only had super expensive brands BUT they had a 50% ofd bin where they would put stuff that was going to go bad soon and I always tried to go to the store to the times when it was the fullest. I forgot the exact days because it was a few years ago.

[@juliustheshark5762]

This is certainly one of the ways you could nourish yourself.

[@Garry1247]

Tesco sells their own brand of lemonade in 2 litre bottles for 20p. When I came back from holiday I discovered their price shot all the way up to a whopping 23p. This was when the reality of inflation really hit me

[@kliksphilip]

'ots only 3p!' ...or 15% inflation

[@DijaVlogsGames]

German here, from the country of the discount supermarkets. I never shop at Aldi or Lidl, because often they end up being more expensive than the big supermarkets like Rewe and Kaufland. Reason 1: The chains often own both the „proper“ shops (Rewe) and a discount variant (Penny). Rewe often stocks the same products as Penny as their own in-house discount brand. So, you can buy the same stuff and still… Reason 2: Buy an alternative product if it’s cheaper. The discount supermarkets often only stock one or two brands per product. Take it or leave it. No chance of getting a deal, it‘s basically a monopoly. So, shop in the „more expensive“ supermarkets and have some self-control. You‘ll often pay less than in discount supermarkets.

[@Thermophobe]

appreciate the use of ai images instead of stock ones in the video. as far as the prices are concerned, will apply your findings in my region soon enough

[@TAPHRIM]

The sequel we all wanted!

[@mikehunt42069]

The biggest shock in terms of price inflation for me was the cheeseburger from mcd's. It used to be 10 of my local currency for the longest time and just the other day they were advertising and presumably trying to entice buyers with 15 a pop. I'm sure they've increased quite steadily in price over the years but i never eat them so I'd never noticed until now.

[@noxious_hamster]

You just made me look it up, and damn... the cheese burger has always been 1€ in my mind (which granted, could have been a while ago since I havent set a foot into a mcdonalds since becoming a vegetarian a couple of years ago)... its now 1,99€.

[@leonardos5398]

Tesco 1EUR pizzas in ireland reduced their size and completely messed the flavour and texture in their new size.

[@julmdamaslefttoe3559]

Been going Aldi and Lidl for years, Recently been gasping to go back to Morrisons, Sick of unbranded crap, but I end up with naff all regardless where i shop

[@homeyworkey]

Phillip you should do a video analysing how much money you spend and save. It'll be fascinating to see all your methods of saving, and how effective they are.

[@nebuc72]

I've funnily enough found that M&S has become cheaper than shopping in most other places because even though their stuff was expensive beforehand, they haven't increased it as much with inflation - now making it on par (if not better) than some of the "cheaper" chains!

[@BlakeGillman]

I see canned goods for 0.22 brit (which I assume is ~$0.3 US) and I can't imagine getting it that cheap in the U.S. I remember thinking that in your "eating like me" video. Can of baked beans is like $2 on the low end. Then ofc Heinz which is like $4 or $5.

[@johnkapri6306]

Please tell me, do Aldi and Lidl staff scan your items with lightning speed over there as well? Or is that a German thing? I know it was invented and popularized here and every shop does it, but I always wonder if they carry it over to other countries as well. Absolutely impossible to store that stuff as fast as they are scanning it.

[@zombieguy]

Weird tangent but when I was quite young in the late 2000s I used to find around 50p outside shops and use that to get stuff, usually a bottle/can of juice and some sweats or chocolate, at the very least I could always find enough to get a drink and anything above £1 was like a fortune. Thinking about that now even after inflation, 50p would still only be about 60 to 70p despite things like a can of cola or irn bru now costing over 80p when it used to be ~20p. It's crazy, in only just over a decade, it went from loose change buying multiple items to not being able to buy anything at all before I even finished my time in education. The part that annoys me the most though is when min wage comes into all this, in 2010 you could by 30 cans of juice an hour but only 12 now, which in this example means you have 2.5 times less spending power.

[@zombieguy]

@@kliksphilip Just got to wait for that any day now, I'm sure it's just around the corner.

[@TheShift.]

As someone who work in a alid seeing the tin section gave me phantom back pain

[@inasatok]

In Hungary things went straight to double prices. Breads are even more it was around 1-2 euro usually and now 2-4. Not even gonna talk about the other things its insane, while the salaries are still as shit as it was 10 years ago.

[@XradicalD]

I'm no expert at economy, but I wonder at what point will the camel's back break? Everything seems to go up but never down, when will it stop being sustainable? And I'm talking about everything: foodstuffs, energy, housing, etc.

[@Kuba295k]

I've just realised how expensive the groceries are in Czech Republic despite of the fact that ourcountry is a lot less economically booming. The can of the cheapest beans is like 1.5 pounds here. :(

[@DedmenMiller]

This made me check my bean prices in the Netherlands. Heinz 415g 0.88€, Hak 360g 2.39€, G'woon 700g 0.98€, G'woon 350g 0.73€ (really worth getting the big one here, but it's glass instead of can)

[@CatsT.M]

Speaking of England being cheap, I have noticed whenever I visit my family in England what would be considered a normal price here in the US is considered overpriced over there...and the US does not even include tax on the price!

[@Geluonis920]

Our heinz beans in tomatoe sauce costs whooping 1.14euros while on sale! Damn you guys have it good.

[@blackdog6345]

Phil, not sure if you will see this, or if these videos of you eating exclusivly beans are even serious. but you can buy bulk bags of dried beans and few tins of chopped tomatoes, you can use a slow cooker to make a large batch of your own 'baked' beans and freeze them in jars. it works out way cheaper if you shop right, and the taste is much better.

[@YeOldDuck]

Truly a good day when Philip uploads

[@plebisMaximus]

I may have to move over to the Philip diet if this keeps up. I'm the kind of person who will happily spend extra to get a big meal, I enjoy cooking and I'm getting decent at it, but some things have shot up in value so much I just can't justify buying it anymore. A kg of short grain rice used to be just a mere 10DKK, now I've seen it for upwards of 25. The common 10% inflation figure doesn't seem to hold much weight.

[@IAMSmoooN]

You should do a video that shows you eating beans and ranking them!

[@marczo8349]

In my country price per quantity (L, kg, g...) is mandatory to display, and that helps a hellollullollvallovlaoo lot.

[@henrym5908]

Food prices are similarly broken here in BC Canada. many basic things are up 50-300% in < two years. also, anything worth buying is usually not in stock here either, but this has been a problem for like 10 years...

[@henrym5908]

another thing on top of price creep is the packaged quantities are also shrinking. a mid-size block of cheese used to be 900g for about $7. then it went to 800g. now 700g starts at $9...

[@JaCKal_0000]

this man here teaching us how to survive day 1 in britania

[@D3nn1s]

The way you pronouce lidl is hilarious but i dont blame you :D What really surprised me was that our german supermarkets are the cheapest in england lol