On May 8, 8:51*am, James Silverton >
wrote:
> 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)
>
> Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

Did you buy any?