On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 3:50:55 AM UTC-10, 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.

You should be able to get bean pods on eBay for around 3 or 4 bucks American. The time I purchased some they were $14 for 40 pods sourced from Madagascar and New Guinea. Times are tough.