Well, the dry ice itself is quite cheap, it's the shipping cost it adds on
Isaac Send a noteboard - 13/09/2011 06:10:40 PM
The biggest variable, at least from my perspective, is the cost of the dry ice, 'cos I have no idea what the rate would be, but the cost of 20 pounds of burritos plus shipping should be a little over $150. These are the ones I have in mind (apparently they've gone to 2 lb. 8 packs, though how much that is with ice attached I'm not sure) and that would be about 80 burritos that would be around $400 here.
Dry ice usually gets sold in 10+ pound amounts at about $1 a pound, cheaper in mass of course, kind of similiar price range to bags of ice at the convenient store, it gets pricey only because you also have to pay freight on the ice and the stuff its keeping cool. I do happen to know - for some rather bizarre reasons - that FedEx actually does do dry ice shipments to Europe with a max package weight of 150 pounds and that you're typically paying about $8 a pound to ship to Europe on 2 day schedule, if you figure you're doing roughly equal quantities of burrito to dry ice you are looking at around $16-20 a pound for your burrito cost, or about $4-5 a burrito... ironically what you're are apparently paying. I believe there are actually some online companies that specialize in shipping items this way to travelers suffering grocery nostalgia in foreign lands, they might be cheaper. Alternatively tortillas are pretty durable and I'm sure the other ingredients are all around, Europe's not that backward about grocery options, at least Germany wasn't but that may not be a fair comparison, so ultimately you are probably better off just making your own and freezing them.
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12/09/2011 06:42:51 PM
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Make sure the country you are shipping to allows dry ice packages, then go to this site
12/09/2011 07:01:04 PM
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I may have to look into this, thanks.
13/09/2011 02:58:48 AM
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Wow, I just realized what a grammatical nightmare that post of mine was
13/09/2011 03:35:10 AM
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No biggy.
13/09/2011 03:54:18 PM
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Well, the dry ice itself is quite cheap, it's the shipping cost it adds on
13/09/2011 06:10:40 PM
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I'm confused on exactly where you're talking about shipping to/from, but it's probably not worth it.
13/09/2011 03:42:50 AM
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TX to Norway.
13/09/2011 03:35:43 PM
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you are craving frozen grocery store burritos LOL
13/09/2011 03:44:06 PM
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I have MOSTLY simple tastes.
15/09/2011 01:00:45 PM
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A cheat's version is buy a Crunchie and crumble it into vanilla icecream *NM*
13/09/2011 01:04:34 AM
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That sounds delicious, and also as though you could make your own.
13/09/2011 02:51:10 AM
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But I'd be so disappointed when it didn't work out.
13/09/2011 06:14:41 PM
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