No More Cheap Margaritas? Why Lime Prices Are On the Rise
These days restaurants are spending obscene amounts of money on limes. Think about what that means for Mexican food alone: limes are used in practically everything, from margaritas to ceviche to guacamole.
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Herrera says in November he was buying cases for about $14 each. Then they went up to $20. Now, "as of last week, [each case] was up to 99 dollars."
So why has the price skyrocketed? The answers are international.
I contacted some lime producers in Michoacan, Mexico, where many of the limes we consume in Texas come from. Michoacan is the state that’s now plagued with turmoil between the drug cartels and the citizen-led militias – and that unrest is part of the story.
The complete story is at http://kut.org/post/no-more-cheap-margaritas-why-lime-prices-are-rise .