From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 5:20:09 PM UTC-6, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)   
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   > On 9/10/14, 8:12 PM, Jymesion wrote:   
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   > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:59:22 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter   
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   > >> Maybe you should go to an Oriental grocery and see how expensive the   
   canned vegetables and condiments are.  Really, if you took the labels off,   
   you'd decrease the value by 1/4th.   
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   > > Any ethnic food is expensive outside its base area.   
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   > 	I dunno, if I go to the local Asian supermarket the asian canned    
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   > veggies are a LOT cheaper than they are in other stores.   
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   That's been my experience, too.  Coconut milk at the local ethnic market (not   
   really Asian as they've got sections for Germany and Sweden and Kenya and   
   Cuba... etc.) is much less expensive than at the regular chain groceries.    
   Fresh vegetables are    
   generally cheaper, too.  I buy shallots there because they're cheap instead of   
   outrageous.  Stuff like black bean sauce or sweet chili sauce are are way   
   cheaper, too.  Green curry is a third of the price.     
      
   -Julie   
      
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