“I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread”

The high price of groceries is reflected in this joke in “The Girls,” a syndicated newspaper comic strip by Franklin Folger that was printed on December 23, 1974:
   
(Two women talking, while walking home from a store.—ed.)
“I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread and mayonnaise.”
 
         
23 December 1974, The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL), “The Girls” comic strip by Franklin Folger, pg. 4, col. 3:
(Two women talking, while walking home from a store.—ed.)
“I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread and mayonnaise.”
 
Google Books
The Reader’s Digest
Volume 107    
1975
Pg. 46:
“I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread and mayonnaise.”—Franklin Folger, Field Newspaper Syndicate
   
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Alex Wants to Call it Love
By Silvia Sanza
London, UK: Serpent’s Tail
1991
Pg. 161:
Then in one corner of the last page there was a joke column: One woman to another as they leave the supermarket. ‘I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk and bread.’
 
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I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread, and mayonnaise (Douglas Helsel) 
     
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I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I certainly never thought it would be on gasoline, sugar, milk, bread, and mayonnaise.
 
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‘I’ve always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I never thought it would be on sugar, milk, bread, and mayonnaise.’
9:46 AM - 16 Jan 2011
 
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I have always wanted to spend money lavishly, but I never imagined it would be on groceries.
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