When grocery prices go pear-shaped We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 5, 2021 — 9.00pm Normal text size Advertisement “Remember when every second home had a choko vine or three, growing over the outhouse, chook pen or any other structure in the backyard?” says Col Shephard of Yamba. “Chokos were as common as muck and for love or money you couldn’t give them away. Now, the price of a choko in a supermarket is almost cause to call 000. The asking price? $12 a kilogram or about $3.60 each. Seriously!” For Roma McDonald of South Maroubra, Richard Glover’s “food that made us” item in Spectrum “brought back wonderful memories of my time as a boarder at school in Sydney in the mid-1940s. On our free weekends, we made our first stop a Cahills restaurant. The taste of their caramel sauce remains with me still. We would buy a carton and take it back to school, well hidden. Those were the days.”