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My tapioca and stuff has come and we had tapioca pudding for tea.

Just had a look and it works out about the same Tesco £6.99 for 60ml and Lakeland 14,99 for 118 ml.

Lakeland is very expensive.

I’ll have to find someone else who shops at Tesco’s. Thank you anyway

Tesco's appear to have it.

Lakeland.

The fact still remains the you can’t get vanilla extract from some supermarkets online :-( :-(

I’ve been trying for several months now. ;-)

That will be it then.

The vanilla plant (an orchid) is originally from central America.
Today it is grown commercially in central America, Madagascar (no.1 ), Indonesia while there is some growing in Florida.
There is one vine in the UK at Kew Gardens.
The price has always been subject to wild fluctuations caused by tropical storms and plant disease.

The pods are much nicer than artificial vanilla hence the high price.
JS usually have them in stock.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bittersweet-story-vanilla-180962757/

Because I lead such a full and exotic life, I have ordered, among other delights, some ground rice, pudding rice and tapioca.I was telling my mate about this, this morning.

She told me she wasn't keen on tapioca but that I might not be able to get it much longer because some sort of natural disaster had wiped out the tapioca plants. This is the same friend I had been telling that the tsunami had killed off the sago palms. I did mention it on here but was corrected!

While I was looking for tapioca on-line (as you do) I had a shufty at vanilla extract. A big bottle used to be about six to eight pounds and now it is fifteen but that is because the vanilla harvest, which was, I think, in Madagascar but I expect to be corrected on that,failed.

By the time my mate has told a few people about that, it will, no doubt, be the gin trees that have died!