I'm reading through all the comments and you seem to be the only one who has acknowledged what this post is actually about.

Everyone else is complaining about the price of pasta sauce.

Nah, you can bowl with those Rao's jars.

Raos is good. Pretty consistently top rated. I basically thought all jarred pasta sauces were garbage before I tried it.

…it does always hurt a little when I splurge on a jar though. Also, Costco sells two packs of the 32oz jars for just a bit more than this and it goes on sale frequently.

Even Newman's Own (a non-profit) is $4. $6-$10 is normal in my area, and it's one of the least affluent areas of the country.

It’s 8.50. It’s only 7.50 of you buy 5 other them or more.

Damn, Trump even put tariffs on imports from Krypton!

Campbells has to make back the money they spent buying it from private equity somehow

That's the price if you buy five or more...

One to four jars is 8.49 each...

Your right, fuckin cheap! Pasta sauce around me is around 12.99. Well besides the store brand which is pretty much water now a days.

raos is pricey, while the instore brand in wf, is like a cheap 2$.50cents

The sign says "serving SoCal" so this is actually a below average price

Los Angeles grocery prices always make my eyes pop out of my head. It's just the cost of existing down there.

meanwhile me buying 400g canned sliced tomatos with herbs from supermarket own brand for 0.85€

And oddly enough in order to prevent breaking the jars, the employee had to carefully position each jar haphazardly like that.

i get the hunts pasta sauce in a huge fuckin can for like a buck. Raos is definitely for people that think a banana costing 10 dollars is cheap and affordable.

Pre-made pasta sauce in general is pretty overrated. It's so easy to make your own pasta sauce, it's pretty much ready in the same time as it takes to heat up premade pasta sauce. Only real advantage is that you don't have to worry about seasoning

Here I started typing up a comment asking what 'Taco noodles' were, then I looked more closely. What the fuck, I've never seen taco-flavored ramen before.

Cause I'm digging for the interesting stuff in the sauce bin.

You think a customer went into a Kroger, printed a price sign, took the time to move like 6 cases of sauce haphazardly into a unsafe pile and nobody said anything? Possible but unlikely.

Nah, this kind of display is called a dump bin. It's meant to look like a chaotic jumble, but doing it with jars seems like a bad idea.

This former Kroger employee explained that Kroger does indeed have a tendency to display their sale items like this.

And this comment .

they think its "past date, or on sale" its a trick.

It's not even good sauce. Pour a couple of big cans of crushed tomatoes over some browned ground beef/pork, add lots of garlic and Italian herbs, salt & pepper, a few oz of red wine, and let it simmer all day.

Add more or less meat, perhaps mushrooms. I like to put in chopped spinach at the beginning, to let it break up into micro pieces, and amp up the nutritional value, but it's not necessary.

It's super easy, and way better than any jarred sauce, and much cheaper.

Safeway store brand is, oddly enough, the best I've found.

Personally, i always thought Rao's was nasty and never understood the hype.

That edit made me laugh, 'cause I totally understand. For example, I had a 'Gram' and a 'Gran' and my whole life I can never remember for sure which goes by which. Makes me feel like an asshole, lol.

I'm glad he taught you how to make your own, by the way. It's so damn tasty. Now I'm craving homemade tomato-based pasta sauce...

They have a "sensitive marinara" that doesn't trigger my partner's IBS. The "sensitive" part is that it lacks garlic and onion. (Partner loves garlic but it doesn't love him back.)

The only other pasta sauce we've found that works for him is from Fody and is more expensive. Luckily, pasta is cheap so it kind of balances out. And I can still have my garlicy oniony goodness by using my own sauce.