Anonymous wrote:If you want that bakery to stay in business and not let go all of ours employees then us that's a good price. Also consider the cost of scarcity. It's nearly impossible to find butter and suet these days.

The grocery store was stocked full of butter today and kerrygold and plugra were on sale

Is OP the San Francisco poster who tells us how inexpensive things are in dc area? If so I finally get it.

An apple tart at Fresh Baguette is more like $40 and it is delicious.

The local baker I use increased her prices this holiday season. Pumpkin pies increased from $22 last year to $30. Fruit pies increased from $24 to $32.

I wasn't willing to pay $62 for two pies, so I grabbed two from Mom's Apple Pies this afternoon.

I wouldn't pay $150 for two tarts. The local baker I use didn't have fruit tarts listed as an option this holiday season, but her normal price for a 9" tart is $30.

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing - there is always a “floor” for how little it may cost but there is not much of a “ceiling”. Sky’s the limit! I’m sure if OP named where these came from we’d be like oh well yeah that’s why. If you don’t want to pay for luxury dessert, shop elsewhere. Someone else will buy it.

“Luxury dessert”

Yes, OP, $75 is too much for an 8" tart. You are being ripped off.

Anonymous wrote:If you want that bakery to stay in business and not let go all of ours employees then us that's a good price. Also consider the cost of scarcity. It's nearly impossible to find butter and suet these days.

Whoa, Nellie. Committing highway robbery is NOT a justification for a business to stay in business. Get better at your business. There is plenty of butter and suet these days.

I buy pies at the crazy expensive pie store (Livin the Pie Life) and I'm paying somewhere south of $40 for the best pies I've ever had. I don't do it every week, but at that price I can live with it No way would I pay that much for tarts.

I paid $45 for a pie at Pie Sisters in Georgetown but they are sooo good. This tart better be the same.

that is pretty expensive to me.

Anonymous wrote:I remember watching a Martha Stewart life story where she used to sell pies for cheap. Nobody would buy them. But then she started marking them up and she noticed more people would buy them. Then she really hiked up the price and they were selling like hotcakes.

This proves my theory that people WANT to pay more for things-- it makes it feel special. This explains the hot housing market, name brand clothes, and gourmet food.

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, people pay nearly $100 for those crepe cakes, which don't even taste good. They just look cool.

Lady M cakes.
I actually love millefuille and ate it all the time in Japan, where it is not 10bucks a slice.
OP is getting ripped off. I’m into high end pastries and cakes but that is just too much.

Where are you all getting this stuff? My local nice natural foods store gets pies mailed in from Zimmermans in Ann Arbor MI and they are $27 (for pumpkin and pecan). Which I thought super high. My local bakery go to that uses European butter and King Arthur flour charges $25 for pies.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. EIGHT INCHES? Seriously? Are you sure? Because that's insanely small.

Less is more. I'll never understand why gluttonous Americans think they need gigantic pieces of cake, pie and tarts -- after a huge meal, no less.

Great, but $75 for a tart that's narrower than the narrow part of a piece of paper??? That's complete madness.

Wegman’s large fruit tart is $27 and doesn’t even include kiwi.

I remember watching a Martha Stewart life story where she used to sell pies for cheap. Nobody would buy them. But then she started marking them up and she noticed more people would buy them. Then she really hiked up the price and they were selling like hotcakes.