The Char Report

Price ticker

  • Grocery wings $2.64/lb â–¼ 24.1%
  • Restaurant wing order $13.90 â–² 0.8%
  • Whole chicken $2.06/lb â–² 0.1%
  • Butter (sauce base) $3.96/lb â–¼ 17.3%
  • Flour $0.55/lb â–¼ 3.2%
  • Cheese (cheddar) $6.13/lb â–² 1.4%
  • Tomatoes $1.99/lb â–² 4.3%
  • Eating out (CPI) +3.5% YoY

Acton

  • Wings and Bacon at the Home Office, No Regrets

    Wings and Bacon at the Home Office, No Regrets

    This is one of my favorite entries in the whole archive: a grey plate of wings and a few strips of bacon, eaten at…

  • The Placemat Era

    The Placemat Era

    September 2018, Acton, and a blue plate resting on a placemat with enough pattern to suggest someone in this household was, at some point,…