On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 8:50:55 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> I just posted that I had not seen them for a while, but had not been
> looking. I just checked on line. Holy cow..... about $9 each.
>
> I used to make my ice cream and my deluxe vanilla recipe called for
> about a tablespoon of extract plus a vanilla bean. The vanilla used to
> be a considerable cost factor when it has half the price of the cream,
> but now it is more than twice as much as the cream.
>
>
The last time I looked at vanilla pods there were three or four in a
bottle and 'on sale' for $17.99. I gently replaced that bottle back
on the shelf and tiptoed away.