"Steve Freides" > wrote in news:8aouvsF9q6U1
@mid.individual.net:

> Holy Toledo! We were in the local Whole Foods market today - vanilla
> beans are sold _one_ at a time, in glass or plastic jars, at a cost of
> between $6 and $12 - that's for one freakin' bean.
>
> I called a store not too far from here, a huge place we sometimes shop
> that has fabulous prices and usually sells in quantity - $4.49 for _one_
> bean.
>
> Yowser! I'd love both an explanation and a source for less expensive
> vanilla beans.
>


Go to eBay. I bought some there..... about $24 for 250g IIRC. Which gave me
about 80 beans.



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Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.