For NZ$5 I can get a 1L tetrapack, sold as "coconut milk", containing 8% coconut cream, and 92% water. That's 920ml of water, and 80ml of plant cream. If we round it up a bit, that's $5 per 100ml.
For $3 I get a 400ml can, containing just over 80% coconut cream. That's 320ml of plant cream. If we rounds down that's $1 per 100ml.
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@tetrislife
... a Māori elder once told me that when their ancestors arrived in Aotearoa, from islands to the north, they assumed coconuts would grow on the palms they saw here. When a year passed and that hadn't happened, they groaned and said "ni kau!" - no coconuts. The Māori name for the one native species of palm is nikau ; )
@tetrislife
> they have people in cold climes consuming sub-tropical fruit!
Fair cop. But Aotearoa is close enough to the tropical Pacific that cans of coconut cream could come by sail.
This is most likely an apocryphal story but...
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