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Good ol’ days
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Arrested Development aired from 2003 through 2008. The average price of bananas during that time was around $0.62/lb. The average price currently is still $0.62/lb.
So…. No. Not “good old days.” Is more like same old days- if all we are using is a banana for scale.
This was always wrong as a meme though. They weren't talking about price of bananas at the store. It was a frozen chocolate banana dessert stand in LA on the beach. 10 dollars isn't an unreasonable price for basically a food truck item, her guess was higher than the actual price listed but it's not unreasonable like the quote suggests.
In an early episode where they're taking money from the till, and George Michael says his dad checks the banana inventory to make sure the money matches up, it's $1 per banana. Pretty cheap price in that context, but that's the in-universe price.