Well, no shit:

But when asked about more mundane matters — like the price of some basic staples — Giuliani had trouble with a reporter's question.

"A gallon of milk is probably about a $1.50, a loaf of bread about a $1.25, $1.30," he said.

A check of the Web site for D'Agostino supermarket on Manhattan's Upper East Side showed a gallon of milk priced at $4.19 and a loaf of white bread at $2.99 to $3.39. In Montgomery, Ala., a gallon of milk goes for about $3.39 and bread is about $2.

The price of the bread, as a fraction of his net worth, is on the order of  10^-8.  Certainly no reasonable person would expect him to know the precise figure, especially since anyone who isn't spectacularly stupid understands that Rudy, himself, probably hasn't run to the grocery store to pick up a loaf of bread in in a decade.   

That said, I seriously would have guessed about the same numbers, and I bought bread like... yesterday.

Posted by: DaveS at 08:29 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment