At Stebbijo's Place, the blogmistress writes: "These particular baked spuds (imported from Idaho) are from Vie de France, a Japanese owned European chain bakery, for ￥168 for 1 potato…with today’s exchange rate that’s $2.00 a spud near Tokyo.  I know!  Why can’t Idaho have some of these?" More here.

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