[RIslander]

According to CNN and their headline article this morning, Europe is considering striking back at the United States and President Trumps decision to assess tariffs to steel and aluminum by putting their own tariffs on cranberries and peanut butter.

Better stock up and hunker down. This could be the end of civilization as we know it.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/eco...index.html

[Suits]

At times like these, I feel rather safe having escaped the West.

No matter what goes down, I'll still have my cranberries and peanut butter.

[CynicalContrarian]

That's nuts.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

The sizable population of landwhale and/or spinster dog owners must be quite alarmed over this

Putting that aside, why are you reading #veryfakenews CNN?

[hv123]

How is the EU putting an iimport tariff on american peanuts and cranberries going to cause a shortage in america?
I doubt very much the EU is going to put an export tariff on its own goods.

This story is also from CNN.....

[RIslander]

(03-07-2018 08:02 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

The sizable population of landwhale and/or spinster dog owners must be quite alarmed over this

Putting that aside, why are you reading #veryfakenews CNN?

I enjoy trolling myself while having my morning coffee.

[Svoboda]

OP, it's the other way around. The EU is considering what products from the US that are exported to Europe it should put a tariff on.

Long story short, the price of cranberries and peanuts would rise in Europe and probably drop in the US.

[Atomic]

CNN also penned an article this morning talking about how Trump is changing immigration laws in order to arrest more non-criminal immigrants.

When you replace the newspeak meaning of immigrants with the correct term, illegal aliens, it sounds like an onion article.

"Trump changing immigration laws in order to arrest more non-criminal illegals".

[CynicalContrarian]

[king bast]

Taking on the deep state state is one thing, but you absolutely do not want to piss off big peanut butter and big cranberry. This time it really is the end for drumpf.

[mikado]

In Europe peanut butter is not really consummed (it's funny, most of the time I will talk to Frenchmen about peanut butter -which we eat in Senegal- and they don't even know what is is).

On the other hand I always see Americans on the reality TV Survivor go crazy for peanut butter (like Jenna Morasca and Heidi Strobel in Survivor the Amazon, stripping for chocolate and peanut butter- google it if you want )

Tremble, USA, if we stop exporting that!

Edit: it seems like it's the other way around. Oh well, it does not matter then. If it was Nutella, then it would have been another issue...

[Thot Leader]

How will feminists manage to get their dogs to lick their vaginas, and then treat the resultant UTIs?...

[Remington]

How will "basic bitches" survive without their Vodka Cranberries?

[Buck Wild]

(03-07-2018 08:27 AM)Svoboda Wrote:  

OP, it's the other way around. The EU is considering what products from the US that are exported to Europe it should put a tariff on.

Long story short, the price of cranberries and peanuts would rise in Europe and probably drop in the US.

Not quite. The price of cranberries and peanuts made by US companies would rise making them less competitive with cranberries and peanuts made by EU producers.

At least that's the idea.

[Hypno]

More realistic impact is what CNN calls a "trade war" is that the U.S. raises tariffs on European automobiles like BMW and mercedes from 2.5% to 10% to match the tariff that Europe imposes on U.S. autos. [sarcasm font] I can't believe Trump would do something so reckless as to match European tariffs! [/sarcasm font]

[debeguiled]

Could be worse than the "Nutella Riots" in France this year.

I could beat someone to death with a tub of chunky if I don't get my peanut butter spoon.

[BortimusPrime]

According to this big bag of stale peanuts I've been feeding the squirrels with, peanuts come from North Carolina and not Europe.

[Paracelsus]

No great loss, ever since Dolores O'Riordan offed herself they haven't been able to export much in the way of Cranberries from Europe for a while.

[John Michael Kane]

I still have 10 YUGE tubs of Skippy (chunky and creamy) from my street dealer named Costco sitting in my garage. My boy always delivers price and quality.

[Paracelsus]

I see they're threatening to put bourbon on the list.

Guess Jack and Jim are gonna have to fire up a couple more stills!

[churros]

I tried pure, unsweetened cranberry juice the other day, and it's totally delicious. Would be great with a cigarette, if I still smoked.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

And in other news, the long-forgotten '60s pop-psych group The Peanut Butter Conspiracy can finally say that their ridiculous name has become relevant. Maybe we can look forward to a reunion tour this summer.

[Huxley Badkin]

(03-07-2018 11:32 PM)Paracelsus Wrote:  

No great loss, ever since Dolores O'Riordan offed herself they haven't been able to export much in the way of Cranberries from Europe for a while.

Fuckin' 'ell, had work to pretty hard to crowbar that one in, but you got there in the end, Chippah. Made me laugh, anyway.

Double guns!

[Cr33pin]

Peanut butter is life


I actually just put a scoop in my coffee

[TigerMandingo]

(03-07-2018 11:41 PM)John Michael Kane Wrote:  

I still have 10 YUGE tubs of Skippy (chunky and creamy) from my street dealer named Costco sitting in my garage. My boy always delivers price and quality.

I love the taste of Skippy, but is it unhealthy compared to those natural peanut butters (which taste like ass but are supposedly good for you)?