Buying raw dates online

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Permalink Reply by Jon Fergus on April 11, 2012 at 1:40pm

Good thing they have the promotion section... they're regular prices are crazy expensive.

3lbs of honey dates for $27.35!!!! I buy 2.2lbs for $5.00, and that's after the grocery store markup!

The one's I buy are from here, but they're local to Ontario, Canada.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Csere on April 11, 2012 at 1:40pm

IDK I ordered a 15lb box of Barhis from Shields and was disappointed, I have never gotten Barhis before but they weren't anywhere near as gooey as I expected. They were somewhat dry, only about half of them were moist to my liking and none were gooey. Maybe I just got a bad batch. 

Last time I got Khadrawis and Halawis from 7hotdates/bautista and boy were they gooey. 

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Marks aka Mama Orangutan on April 11, 2012 at 2:04pm

Oh, that's disappointing, but good to know because I was thinking of getting Barhis next time.  I guess I will stick with Khadrawis!  Thanks for the heads up! :)

Although, we mostly use dates for dateorade, so I guess the dryness wouldn't be that much of an issue.  I love eating fresh gooey dates, but I'm always secretly terrified that they'll rot my teeth out. O_O

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Marks aka Mama Orangutan on April 11, 2012 at 2:04pm

Oh wait...Peter, are you talking about shieldsdates or harrysdates??

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Permalink Reply by Peter Csere on April 12, 2012 at 2:37am

Shields

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Permalink Reply by AJ on April 13, 2012 at 8:16am

hey mama orangutan- why are you worried about dates rotting your teeth out?  is it just the sugar, or something i don't know(eek!!)?

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Marks aka Mama Orangutan on April 13, 2012 at 2:36pm

No, not the sugar...but dates are sticky and I'm really bad about flossing and brushing after every meal...so I'm afraid the sticky delicious date goo will get stuck in my teeth and start doing damage before I brush at night. :P

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Permalink Reply by Marisa on April 11, 2012 at 1:41pm

I got 4 boxes from them last year and I can confirm they have really amazing tasting dates. One of the boxes of Barhis we got were literally the biggest Barhis I've ever had and they were absolutely delicious.

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Permalink Reply by Viktoriya on April 12, 2012 at 12:18am

Awesome deal for the Barhi Dates! Never tried those. Kind of iffy on ordering 15 lbs of dates I've never tried 

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Permalink Reply by Greenmama on April 13, 2012 at 12:23am

Barhis are my favorite date.  I have only gotten them from the Date People, though, and they were always quite moist and caramelly.

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Permalink Reply by Nikkal on April 26, 2012 at 4:30am

I got some medjools from Fernandez the "Ramadan Special" a couple weeks ago and when I asked him if the dates were moist or dry he said you pick so I told him the wetter the better and they were nice and gooey. Here the website:
http://fernandezdates.com/online-store/ just make sure to email him and let him know what you want :) it was only $44 for 11lbs and he said they're grown organic just not certified.

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Permalink Reply by Nikkal on April 26, 2012 at 5:06am

Did you see where it says Ramadan Special down at the bottom of the page? He doesn't specify what kind of dates are in the Ramadan special on there so I asked him and he said it's a combo of jumbo and large medjools. Here's his email:  he responds pretty quickly. 

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