"Dee Randall" > wrote in message
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> Cardomom can be an expensive spice. It comes in green and bleached white,
> or black pods. It comes in ground, and I don't know whether the ground is
> green or black, but green cardomom is the "true" cardomom.

Hah - that's just the outer pod. The others are not "false", just different,
like potatoes vs potato chips.

As far as expensive, so what? Why should it be cheap? It's a different
substance than cheaper spices. Should a 12 carat diamond be as cheap as a
pine cone?