CABBAGE HAS GONE MAD
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Cabbage hits $9 a head as KFC, Oporto and
Subway make tough decisions about lettuce shortage

Many Aussies are abandoning lettuce to avoid paying exorbitant prices for the leafy vegetable after floods meant the price skyrocketed – but now even the humble cabbage is expensive, fetching up to $9 at wholesale prices.

A number of Australia's fast food favourites, including KFC, Subway and Oporto, were forced to tweak their menus recently due to the lettuce shortage, blending cabbage into the salad to keep their prices low.

But the price of cabbage is also on the rise now and is looking to be the next budget blow-out for healthy-eating families amid surging living costs.

At Sydney Market on Wednesday, the city's biggest, the price for a wholesale cabbage was as high as $9.

Typically, restaurateurs expect to pay around $4.50 for a head of cabbage at the market, meaning prices have doubled in the past month.

Coles' online catalogue showed a full-sized, organic head of cabbage is now worth ten dollars, nearly half an hour's work for anyone on Australia's minimum wage.

A whole green cabbage runs at seven dollars at Woolworths.


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