King Cake
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> On Feb 21, 10:12*pm, "I'm back" > wrote:
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>> > On Feb 21, 6:26 pm, Tara > wrote:
>> >> Sorry, I can't hear you, I'm busy eating my Haydel's king cake. I
>> >> don'
>> > t
>> >> care if Mardi Gras was last week. This is something special. If
>> >> onl
>> > y
>> >> McKenzie's Bakery was still around!
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>> >> Tara
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>> > I checked Haydel's website.
>> > $52.00 for a King Cake?! *I saw them at the grocery store for less
>> > than $8.00 during Mardi Gras weekend. *Their other items are just
>> > as overpriced.
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>> Even $8 is *way* too much.
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>> Here in Oz, you wouldn't pay more than $3-4 for it.
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> The extra cost is for the plastic baby and beads that come with it.
> Normally a coffee cake that size costs around $4.00 at Kroger.
> They're even less if you happen to be there when they mark them down.
>
LOL!!!
$48 for beads and plastic babies!!
I can see a killing to be made here...... run of the mill cakes with
those expensive added extras of beads and plastic baubles.
It's like taking land off the Indians!!
--
Peter
Brisbane
Australia
Success isn't so difficult.
Just bite off more than you can chew,
then go do it.
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