It's Bananas!!

Australia is reasonably expensive it turns out - and some things are more expensive than others!

The terrible floods in Queensland (the main banana producing area) in recent years have had quite an impact on the price of bananas! We were utterly oblivious to this until I was called a show off by someone at work for eating a banana. I listened in shock to the explanation and then checked our shopping receipts when I got home. Turned out we'd spent about $42 dollars on 5 bananas. The banana is a luxury item. Now we mostly eat mandarins.