Lira Mania

Today we walked into a local neighborhood grocery where the shopkeeper wanted to change us 55 Turkish lira for a liter of Coke and a box of sugar cubes. That's about $27!  So we asked how much the Coke was. It was 2 TL. And the sugar was 35 TL. 35 is still outrageous plus 35+2 does not equal 55 when I last checked. So we bought the Coke and left.