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Default Expensive vegetables.

On 5/8/2013 11:51 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.


Maybe they're Magic Beans.

Jill