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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 3187470, member: 74222&quot;]Obviously the price will soar during hard times. - When Assad besieged Aleppo the food price in the besieged citadel was 40-80 times higher if my mind serves me right.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;in Egypt these days you can buy 5 loaves of flatbread for 25 piastres, less than 1 cent per loaf.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Respond:</p><p><br /></p><p>The arabic loaf of flatbread is almost nothing in gram I think. - Egypt is famous for bread-producing giving its corn-market and Nile River. Also the goverment do provide help to keep the price of bread down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look here: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/egypt-protests-we-want-bread-subsidy-cut" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/egypt-protests-we-want-bread-subsidy-cut" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/egypt-protests-we-want-bread-subsidy-cut</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The source I provided is talking about bread of &quot;just under one kilosize, not our reduced size loaf of today&quot;. - That is a bread which has somehow the size of a watermelon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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