On May 6, 7:15*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:


> I hadn't looked at it for a few years.

<snipped>

> Whoa! *What happened that made the price shoot up?
> I can only guess that something caused the supply
> to go down and now the Japanese are buying them all.
> I suppose in a few years they won't be available here
> at all.


The price of a lot of things goes up and I'll bet everyone in
some way is responsible for it, even you. You say you haven't look at
the stuff in years. Maybe if you had bought more of it the price
wouldn't have gone up. Maybe your absence from eel eating has caused
the price to skyrocket.

Stop blaming the foreigners,
TJ