Trump and Greg Abbott are making our lives more expensive.
If you haven’t tried HEB’s Tex-Mex Queso with Brisket, you’re missing out on something incredible.
“There was a time when you could buy a roughly one-and-a-half-pound tray of H-E-B’s Tex-Mex queso with brisket for $8, give or take. But that’s not the case anymore, and the news is another point of contention for the store’s regulars talking about price hikes online.
A Reddit post about the price hike riled up a few commenters on r/H-E-B on Aug. 4. “When did the brisket queso from HEB BBQ go to $15?!?” the post was titled.
“granted.. i hadn’t had it in a month or two.. but I remember it was about $10. Just picked up some today and it was priced at $15,” the author wrote.
The post is one drop in an ongoing sea of questions, observations, and complaints about H-E-B prices on social media. In early March, r/HEB was in an uproar when the price of a loaf of Hill Country Fare white bread passed the dreaded $1 rubicon.
The easiest guess is that the price increase is in line with everything else getting more expensive nationwide. In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported food-at-home (or grocery and supermarket) prices were up 2.4 percent compared to the year before. The prices of beef have shot up too, as the country reckons with shrinking cattle herds.”