"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 05:41:08 -0700, sf > wrote:
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>>On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:47:19 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:
>>
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>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>> >
>>>
>>> Paste in a tube is not widely available here.
>>
>>I didn't say it was hard to find, I only said it was more expensive.
>>>
>>> So while it might be common to you, canned is what is common here. That
>>> is
>>> why you are getting the responses from sf that you are getting.
>>
>>I said it was more expensive than canned, what's so hard to understand
>>about that? A 6 oz can of tomato paste is less than $1, a 2.8 oz tube
>>(I have one - it's Amorte sun-dried tomato) is more like $5.
>
> Not too long ago I bought a dozen 6 ounce cans of Hunts tomato paste,
> 49¢ each. Paste in tubes is typically far more expensive per ounce...
> I haven't bought a tube in probably 20 years, I've no use for those
> itty bitty tubes. Anytime I use tomato paste I use the entire 6 ounce
> can... I typically include a can of paste when I make a pot of sauce,
> to compensate for the extra water I add when rinsing the last bits
> from each can of crushed.

I can get a tube of plain tom paste for around 40p

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