[CH] Habanero prices
robhuns1 (robhuns1@earthlink.net)
Sun, 19 Aug 2001 01:42:27 -0400
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Hi all,
I have an abundance of red savina habs this year. I have 10 plants and the
other day I picked about 70 red ripe habs off the plants with many more
just starting to ripen. Anyway, I went to the grocery store to pick up some
items to make hot sauce and went to the produce section and saw they had
some regular habs for sale in plastic containers. There were 5 habs per
container and they were half the size of the red savinas from my garden.
They wanted 4 dollars for 5 scrawney little habs that looked like they were
starting to go bad! I had just gave 40 of the habs I picked away to friends.
I never bought habs from a store.....I never seen them at the grocery store
around here until today. I always grow my own.Now I know why I get so many
calls in the summer to see if I have any ripe habaneros yet. All this time I
thought they liked me for my wonderful personality :-) I couldn't beleive
habaneros cost that much at a grocery store. I just give them away so they
don't go to waste. Are those prices typical ?? Is there an habanero shortage
or something?? I wonder what the grocery store would have charged for big
healthy habs out of a chile-head 's garden??
Rob:-)