Admittedly it was in a "gourmet" store but I saw Fava beans selling for
$4 a pound. The pods must weigh as much as the beans they contain so
that's about $8 a pound for a vegetable! I've never seen even asparagus
costing as much as that.
--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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