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		teraflop on June 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Consult an Onion Oracle And yet milk futures are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/agriculture/dairy/class-iii...

aebtebeten on June 3, 2024 [–]

Here, dairy is stocked and sold without refrigeration, but that's probably not true in Chicago.

Maybe the difference is that new milk arrives twice a day, whereas onions are annual?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-n0DJFalY

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