On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:10:29 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

>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.

Now I'm getting a craving...
http://nuts.com/chocolatessweets/dri...chocolate.html
http://nuts.com/driedfruit/oranges/dark-strips.html