Re: Bargains at the Indian Mart

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2001.08.23 at 00:52:05(7278) >Dear fellow aroiders, >I went on a search for "suran" at Indian groceries in Edison, NJ and found >it, for $2.99 a pound. That translates to one 5 lb. tuber of Amorphophalus >paeonifolius and one 3 lb. for about $24 +More >>Obviously, someone imports these on a commercial basis. I wonder if there aren't others (myself included) that would like to be able to obtain these "super-sized" Amorph's.<< I posted on this some time ago, advising that it was a fantastic bargain. I sometimes find them at an Indian Grocery here in WPB, Florida, the shop keeper told me that they are imported fresh from Jamaica where they are in cultivation. They probably come out of the commercial importers of tropical produce in Miami, the smae one that supply the Xanthosomas, Colocasias, Dioscorias, and MANY other vars. of all sorts of Tropical produce we now find in ethnic shops all over the USA. Julius Boos WPB, Florida. -- Don Martinson Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:llmen@execpc.com

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