Will everyone please stop and look around them...I seem to have lost my mind.

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marilynfl

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I just got back from a lunch break at Target where I spent....

TWENTY DOLLARS forTWO PINTS OF JENI'S ICE CREAM!.

That's a TWO and a ZERO before you get to the DECIMAL POINT.

I recognized the name trawling past the freezer cases because I have Jeni's ice cream book and somehow justified that $20 was cheaper than airfare to Chicago.

None the less...this seems a tad insane, even for me.

I bought a pint each of "The Milkiest Chocolate In The World" and "Brown Butter Almond Brittle." Both are organic with Fair Trade ingredients where possible.

I'm eating the milk now and finding it a bit...chalky

Praise the Lord for small mercies.

(PS: If you find my mind, just slide it into the nearest mailbox COD. Thank you.)

 
I think it's in the same closet with mine. I'm now paying $30 for a small bottle of shampoo (and I

can't even eat it)

 
It's a foodie thing Marilyn. I have done this type of thing several times

usually someone on a foodie site posted about a great recipe they made that uses some fancy named spice product that I have never heard of, and the dish is fabulous all because of that one spice. I have several jars of such things which I used once! I am in the process of trying to use them up, using them here and there in recipes I think will benefit by them. I think all foodies do this. smileys/wink.gif

 
I saw it in the store too and thought the price must be a mistake!

but yeah, I've done this kind of thing, see the peaches above!

 
I think Karen's right. It's a foodie thing. Especially when we're away from home and I want to

sample local specialties.

 
Marilyn, your justification was reasonable. Buying the ice cream at Target was cheaper than a trip

to Chicago. This is the same argument a woman I met in a fruit store 15 years ago made for paying $7.99 a pound for cherries. She said it was cheaper than flying to B.C. to get some.

 
Better you spent $20 buying her book. After 80+ tried and true ice cream recipes

under my belt, I do believe Jeni's method is my favorite. Her book, makes me happy just looking at it on my bookshelf. It's a treasure trove, for sure.

I will confess, though chocolate is my favorite ice cream, I've struggled to find a terrific method for making it at home. I can't remember if I've tried hers, but pretty much gave up on that quest. Or put it on the back burner.

For commercial chocolate ice cream, Talenti is my favorite. Have you tried it?

https://www.talentigelato.com/our-products/

 
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