Here's one I want to know: why do the prices of mushrooms fluctuate? I mean plain old white mushrooms, not the fancy-schmancy ones. There can't be a SEASON; the damned things are grown underground in abandoned salt mines. There ought to be a fairly steady year-round supply, and prices pretty much stable. But they vary between $1 a pound up to sometimes over $3 a pound. I refuse to buy plain white mushrooms for $3.50 a pound -- and when I don't get my mushrooms, there's not telling what may happen.

Alex