President Joe Biden is weighing how hard to hammer big food companies over painfully high grocery prices in his upcoming State of the Union Address. But some some aides remain wary of focusing too much on food inflation, given how little power the president has to singlehandedly force down prices.

Biden embraced the concept of “shrinkflation” in a Super Bowl message targeting major snack food corporations — as the president framed it, there are now “fewer chips” in your bag, while companies are “still charging you just as much.”

And the White House has been aggressively testing out the messaging on the airwaves and in internal polling ahead of Biden’s speech, according to two White House officials familiar with the matter, who were not authorized to speak on the issue and were granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations. Recent polling circulated within the White House has been favorable to Biden’s push to blast what he’s described on the campaign trail as “corporate greed” driving higher prices across a range of sectors.

    • @TropicalDingdong
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      117 months ago

      buy meat for under $1 a pound

      Does this actually exist?

        • @TropicalDingdong
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          77 months ago

          With gas prices these days it still might cost you more than $1 a lb

        • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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          47 months ago

          True story, a woman hit a deer in front of my house 3 months ago, I talked to the deputy and claimed the tag and processed it that night. Got over 100lbs of meat nearly free.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        87 months ago

        Not anywhere I’ve seen.

        Maybe if you’re buying your institutional grade F surplus horse meat in pallet quantities from Sysco or something.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      47 months ago

      One of the best ways to stretch your grocery budget is to buy ingredients as whole as possible and then process them at home as much as possible. Especially vegetables.

      • The Pantser
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        57 months ago

        Yes buying whole grain cow is actually a really cheap way to save on meat.