Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2021-04-12 5:33 p.m., Graham wrote:
> > On 2021-04-12 2:50 p.m., US Janet wrote:
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > A couple people have been gifting me large bottles of vanilla when
> > > then travel to Mexico.Â* I now have about a quart of the stuff and
> > > I don't make sweets any longer.
> > >
> > > End of Ramble
> > > Janet US
> > >
> >
> > Go to your local artisinal baker and trade it for bread.
>
> You would want to make sure you got a lot of bread in return.
>
> Years ago a neighbour went on a Caribbean cruise and brought us some
> vanilla extract from Grenada. That stuff was amazing. I was talking
> with the chef/owner of a local restaurant and commented on the
> vanilla taste in his desserts. It turned out that he got his vanilla
> extract from the Dominican Republic. His wife was Dominican and they
> went down frequently and always brought back lots. On his next trip
> he brought me back a 500ml bottle of it. That lasted me a good long
> time. The down side was that I could never find another source of
> vanilla that good. Now I have to pay a small fortune for an inferior
> product.

I use it seldom but still have at least 1/2 the bottle of it that Peter
Lucas shipped me from Brisbane before he died. It's in a tanqueri
bottle. Extremely good stuff.

Peter died around 2007/2008 or so. He had stomach cancer and battled
it for years. He was also the first one to have a persistant frogger
back when it wasn't common any many didn't believe he was real or
thought mistakenly he was making the frogger posts on his own (which he
wasn't).