Last time you went to the grocery store, how much did you pay for a gallon of milk?
I was in the grocery store on Wednesday and one of my purchases was a gallon of 2% milk, for which I paid $4.06.
But according to Fox News host Sandra Smith, she had to pay $11 for a gallon of milk in New York, Mediaite reports:
“You have the egg-o-meter, I have the milk-o-meter. I bought a gallon of milk last night. Granted we live in New York, things are higher priced than in a lot of other areas in the country. It is nearly $11 for a gallon of milk at a New York grocery store.”
Even in New York, the only thing you would pay $11 a gallon for is certain select organic brands of milk. But the average gallon costs nowhere near that, no matter were in the U.S. you happen to be.
According to the USDA’s ’s Agricultural Marketing Service, “the average price for a gallon of milk in NYC rose from $4.60 at the beginning of the year to $4.69 in March.”
Twitter users were only too happy to declare Smith’s statement to be complete bullshit, because it most certainly is.
Another day, another lie from Fox News. It’s their calling card.
