• @[email protected]
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        58 days ago

        To be honest… I don’t think I’ve seen a dried chickpea that wasn’t packaged as a “snack” and it was like $5 for a single serving :(

        • @[email protected]
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          58 days ago

          Those are crispy chickpeas. Dried chickpeas are found with beans and other pulses and you soak/cook in water

        • subignition
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          28 days ago

          Dang that’s a shame. Grocery stores around here sell them by the pound next to the dry beans.

    • hamid 🏴
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      48 days ago

      There is a chickpea shortage due to climate and the war in Ukraine right now

      • Smorty [she/her]
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        14 days ago

        maybe it’s just because of evil cooperations making them expensive because they can say cuz ukraine?

        • hamid 🏴
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          23 days ago

          That isn’t a different thing. Their mechanism for doing so is war. Corporations are making them expensive by starting and continuing wars. All wars are capitalist exploitation and a profit generating scheme. In this case the war is being fought where the chickpeas are grown though so the amount coming to market has dropped.

          There are a few kind of chickpeas though, these are specifically the big round ones anglos call garbanzo beans and in hindi are called kabuli chana. Desi chickpea production hasn’t been impacted but those are smaller chickpeas. The other major source for kabuli chana is Canada.