On Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 9:28:11 PM UTC-6, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/6/2019 8:23 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
> > On 1/6/2019 4:23 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
> >> Hello RFCers!
> >>
> >> I've been Googling around "pricing fine chocolates saint Louis MO" and
> >> I got a few rough prices per LB:
> >>
> >> See's: 1lb- $26/lb
> >> Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* 5lb- $130
> >> Price's: 15oz- $30
> >> William Sonoma: WOW!! Stupid expensive!! Like $100/lb or more!
> >>
> >>
> >> I think I'm gonna charge like $20 for 1/2lb (4 cherries) and $40 for a
> >> full lb (8 cherries), and I have to see how much shipping is!
> >>
> >> What thinks RFC?
> >>
> >> John Kuthe, KutheChocolates.com...
> >
> > Â* I think I'll stay with the cherry chocolates from Walmart for $2.50
> > for a box of 10 . I also think you're ****in' insane to think anybody is
> > going to pay $2.50 EACH for mediocre home made chocolates .
> >
>
> I'd not eat the ones from WalMart if you gave them to me for free. Had
> one once when my MIL bought them. It was nasty.

Nasty is right! I'll never forget once at a boating takeout on or near Christmas and someone had a box of those nasty CCCs and was passing them out to folks and my nephew and I both took one and after the passer was away from us, as we were standing near the campfire my nephew tossed his cheap CCC into the fire declaring "I will not eat an inferior chocolate covered cherry!"

>
> Now you may not want to pay John's price, I understand that, but to call
> them mediocre when you never saw or ate one is wrong too. They are much
> larger than the typical ones in the stores.

Exactly Ed!! My Chocolate Covered Cherries are NOTHING like the baby safe chocolate covered cherries others make and sell!

John Kuthe, KutheChocolates.com...