Oh, Please Spare Me

I've long extolled the virtues of the prosciutto ends at the Pearl Street Whole Foods store for use in cooking when dicing the meat anyway, since the ends were selling at nearly half the price of the freshly sliced prosciutto at the deli.  Not finding any of the ends yesterday, I asked the deli staff, who directed me instead to "prosciutto crisps," cooked little slices which they said is what they are turning the ends into now.  With the freshly sliced prosciutto selling in the $25 a pound range and the ends nearly half that, these "crisps" are $35 a pound!  Okay, since I like accuracy, a penny less than that at $34.99 a pound.  Like I am going to choose that product to dice up into a chowder!  Sheesh.