The high price of groceries is reflected in this joke in “The Girls,” a syndicated newspaper comic strip by Franklin Folger that was printed on December 23, 1974:
(Two women talking, while walking home from a store.—ed.)
“I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread and mayonnaise.”
23 December 1974, The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL), “The Girls” comic strip by Franklin Folger, pg. 4, col. 3:
(Two women talking, while walking home from a store.—ed.)
“I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread and mayonnaise.”
Google Books
The Reader’s Digest
Volume 107
1975
Pg. 46:
“I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread and mayonnaise.”—Franklin Folger, Field Newspaper Syndicate
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Alex Wants to Call it Love
By Silvia Sanza
London, UK: Serpent’s Tail
1991
Pg. 161:
Then in one corner of the last page there was a joke column: One woman to another as they leave the supermarket. ‘I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk and bread.’
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