In article <20050224091633.44425ebc@wafer>, Eric Jorgensen
> wrote:
> Ugh.
>
> You know that dry synthetic vanillin costs about $100/ton wholesale at
> the factory, right?

Gosh, I did not know that.

The biggest cost is shipping & packaging.

OK. Look, I was just providing information for the OP. :-)
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