On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:07:13 GMT, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

>Hello All!
>
>Today, I was in my local Balduccis, the best and probably the most
>expensive "gourmet" store. They had what I wanted: dates but there were
>some other interesting things like "giant lemons", really as big as
>grape fruits. I did not try these but they also had "sweet limes" and I
>bought one even if they were $5.99 a pound. They looked somewhat like
>limes with smooth yellow skins but had little lime taste being like not
>very juicy seedless oranges. You can keep them in my opinion.

Wow, those are expensive. I can get sweet limes here in a few markets
for much, much less than that. I think I have seen them in the mexican
megamart...and I think the price was about $1/dozen. I could be
wrong...but they were not very expensive anyway.

Christine