Friday, May 11, 2012

An Empty Bottle of Bay Leaves

I use a fair amount of bay leaves, and unfortunately it's $8-$9 a bottle. At .14 oz net weight, that's what, a billion dollars per pound for bay leaves? Or, more. Okay, this way, at 20 leaves in a bottle, that's 40¢ per leaf! Money grows on trees almost. I couldn't find bay leaves on sale so as a last resort I went to Walmart. And there it was. The very last bottle of bay leaves on the rack at $5.60. I guess at $5.60 it goes fast. No wonder it's the last remaining bottle on the rack. Fortunately, I had the presence of mind, that kind of moment, and realized to my chagrin, somebody musta mistakenly put the bottle of bay leaves back on the wrong rack. Walmart has bar code stickers plastered on the front of the rack without room for the names of the individual spices next to the bar code. A worker was nice enough to price check it for me and sure enough bay leaves were $8 and something per bottle. Happy Aloha Friday the same. How, you?

6 comments:

Mokihana said...

Ho da $$$$$!!! Now I gotta go check and see what I pay for mines here....

RONW said...

Mokehana- you should grow bay leaves on your farm. At what they're selling for!!

Anonymous said...

RONW, let me know when you will be in the Aiea area and I will give you tons of bay leaves. winnie808atymail.com.

RONW said...

winnie808- happy Aloha Friday to you, too! I'll indeed let you know when I'll be that side .... haven't been able to bring myself to buy new bay leaves yet. Hey, I'll even blog about em. Take picture la dat.

Kay said...

Gosh! My mom used to put bay leaves in her tomato-beef stew. We don't use bay leaf much. Now for sure I not gonna.

RONW said...

Kay- for me, it's bay leaves with beef and fennel with pork.