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Default Sticker shock .... vegetables

Hello, Dave!
You wrote on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:59:59 -0500:


DS> Goomba38 wrote:
??>>
??>> Dave Smith wrote:
??>>> Holy cow. I was out shopping today and was astounded at
??>>> the prices of some of the vegetables. The cold weather
??>>> in parts of the US is being blamed for shortages.
??>>
??>> Yeah, I saw it last week. A head of cauliflower for $2.79
??>>

The vegetable crops in the Central Valley of California were
devastated by the cold weather as were the orange groves but
some prices have not gone up. I was surprised to see that
grapefruit were just about the same price as weeks ago and
canteloupes are quite reasonable.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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