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Twitter erupts after Texas family tells CNN they buy 12 gallons of milk a week

Steven Santana at MYSA, Nov. 4, 2021

 

Twitter is struggling to comprehend why a Texas family buys so much milk a week. 

The Stotler family out of Kennedale, Texas, were the subject of segment on CNN about how U.S. inflation is hitting American families. But what caught Twitter’s attention was when Krista and her husband, Larry, told CNN’s Evan McMorris-Santoro that they buy 12 gallons of milk per week for their nine children.

Some on Twitter, of course, thought this number was exorbitant to say the least.

honestly it should be a crime to buy 48 gallons of milk per month pls have a glass of water

— Elizabeth Pancotti (@ENPancotti) November 4, 2021

 

i love milk but come on. 12 gallons a week? are they bathing in it https://t.co/WMCr8Q6InO

— Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) November 4, 2021

 

While others were more sympathetic to the Stotlers’ need for so much milk. 

I didn’t have twitter mocking a foster and adoptive family for buying enough milk to meet the needs of their 9 kids and new placement on my bingo card for today, but here we are. This place is nothing if not always on-brand.

— Brittany (@bccover) November 4, 2021

 

“A gallon of milk was $1.99. Now it’s $2.79. When you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, that’s a lot of money,” Krista tells CNN.

The price for a gallon of milk at San Antonio’s favorite grocery store, H-E-B, ranges from $3.38 to $3.55 depending on the brand, according to its website. The Stotlers were shopping at a Kroger’s.

The national average price of a gallon of whole milk is $3.69, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. CNN says inflation is due to a multitude of ongoing economic, transport, and political issues, most of which are either unstable or contentious.

Aaron Gordon with Vice reports that CNN’s milk segment gets inflation “completely wrong.” He says that dairy is actually benefiting some of the lowest rates of inflation with dairy prices rising just .6 percent over the last 12 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

He says grocery store prices are up 4.5 percent year over year. While a healthy rate of inflation is typically one to two percent, the increase is far from “crisis levels,” he adds.

It is still a large amount of milk either way.

Heading out to pick up my weekly 12 gallons of milk pic.twitter.com/QUB9KvfQGl

— honest jabe (@jaynooch) November 4, 2021

 

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See the original article: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/CNN-segment-Twitter-losing-it-Texas-milk-16592454.php

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