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Default Expensive vegetables.

On 5/8/2013 11:53 AM, merryb wrote:
> 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?
>

I quite like most beans but not at that price!

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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