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World Price Tracker Turns Data into Edinburgh Fringe Comedy

6/12/2026

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Dan Kelly turned his decade-long global price-tracking job into a comedy routine for the Edinburgh Fringe.
From 2014 to 2025 he surveyed 164 supermarket items in 150 countries, visiting a new city every two days, recording prices on a dictaphone while staying on a £70-a-day budget.
His data showed a pineapple at £0.21 in Angola versus £5 in Novosibirsk and a Lindt bar at £9 in Luanda.

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Dan Kelly turned his decade-long global price-tracking job into a comedy routine for the Edinburgh Fringe.
From 2014 to 2025 he surveyed 164 supermarket items in 150 countries, visiting a new city every two days, recording prices on a dictaphone while staying on a £70-a-day budget.
His data showed a pineapple at £0.21 in Angola versus £5 in Novosibirsk and a Lindt bar at £9 in Luanda.