On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:53:26 +0000 (UTC), "I'm back" >
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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.
>>>
>>> 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.
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>LOL!!!
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>$48 for beads and plastic babies!!
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>I can see a killing to be made here...... run of the mill cakes with
>those expensive added extras of beads and plastic baubles.

I'd pay $52 for these cup cakes:
http://i50.tinypic.com/5ad1g.jpg