At Jacques Genin they fetch 100 euros per kilo (about $65 per pound) — it works out to about 1 euro each — and they're worth it no matter the exchange rate.
These short-term efforts have helped; onions are now available at 20 rupees a kilo (about 20 cents a pound) in Mumbai, down more than 70 percent from their recent highs.
At 1,000 euros per kilo, or about $600 per pound, it seemed to have inched past moose cheese to top the list of the world's most expensive cheeses.
For $15 or so you should be able to buy half a kilo, about a pound.
The bags are slung on handheld scales; today, whale meat costs 80 Danish kroner a kilo, about £9.
The spot price of "extra-virgin olive oil" in European markets has dropped as low as 1.8 euro per kilo (about a liter).
"The difficulty is that we don't know how the batch was prepared or its size, whether it was 1 kilo," about two pounds, "or 100 kilos, or anything about it," Mr. Sullivan said.
I buy gros sel here for as little as 1 euro (about $1.25) a kilo (about 2.2 pounds), and the much rarer fleur de sel for as little as 10 euros a kilo.
While horns have sold recently for upward of $200,000, the powder, Mr. Lawson said, is reported to fetch £60,000 a kilo (about $45,000 a pound) on the black market — more than gold, heroin or cocaine.
