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Saffron: The Story of the World’s Most Expensive Spice - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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[–] plantteacher@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

For centuries, saffron has been a prized dye

Bizarre that such a costly substance would be used as a dye for clothing. Why pay what’s likely the equivalent of HP ink when you can just get a box of Rit yellow dye at the supermarket?

Surely the price will drop when someone figures out that drones can fly around and harvest the saffron.