On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:57:28 -0400, Nancy Young <replyto@inemail>
wrote:

>On 3/30/2012 1:00 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:17:27 -0400, Nancy Young<replyto@inemail>
>> wrote:
>
>>> I'm lucky, I get it for $6/lb and a couple dollars worth keeps me happy
>>> for a week or two.
>
>> If you go through a pound every month or so it pays for you to buy in
>> bulk, a lot less money in say 5 pound bags, and crystallized ginger
>> keeps well indefinitely:
>> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...allized+ginger
>
>Thanks, and you're right. As it is there are a couple of places I
>visit often and it's like a guilty thing where I grab a couple of
>containers.
>
>I'm hooked on the stuff.

I used to be hooked on Barton's chocolate covered ginger, fabulous
stuff. I liked their chocolate covered orange peel too. As I got
older I lost my craving for sweets as dentists were charging higher
and higher fees and I learned my lesson once some sticky confection
yanked off a crown.