On 2018-03-17 12:03 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 3:50:55 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:

>> 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.


Was that recently. Prices had soared.