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Skriven 2007-06-11 17:31:10 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
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 >>   A crown seal is the metal cap with crimped edge, used for beer,
 >> which goes, "Pfftt!" when levered off.

 >  BM> Ah, OK, you mean the kind of cap all bottles had when I was a kid.
 >  BM> Soft drinks, too.  I remember we had a bottle capper when I was young.

 > Right!  I had a capper somewhere, which the home brew
 > makers in the
 > family used.

We shared a third-acre garden with another family.  There was a Concord grape
arbor in it, but I don't remember anything being bottled during the latter
years of the garden, and don't know what was bottled when my folks did bottle
stuff.

 >>>  BM> untoasted sesame seed oil might be expected to taste.

 >> I don't think I have come across the untoasted sesame
 >> oil.  There is
 >> probably not much demand for it, as the toasted has so
 >> much more "kick" to it.

In this area, if any use the untoasted kind, they most likely get it from a
restaurant supply, or from an ethnic grocer.  There are only two chain grocery
stores in this area, now, to my knowledge.

 >> Be adventurous!  Just a little by little.

 >  BM> Yes!  I bought some six-ounce cans of Thai coffee, and, do you know,
 >  BM> they taste *exactly* like American coffee with milk and sugar!  [gd&r]

 > I think I know what that would be.  Nestlé and others
 > produce small,
 > one-shot sachets of an instant coffee, sugar and
 > powdered milk which
 > are used in the sort of cheap hotels I patronise in
 > the SE Asian
 > region.  Although overly sweet, I eventually got used
 > to drinking that
 > sort of coffee in Sumatra, as it was all I could get
 > where I was

Yes, NesCafé 1 + 2, I think it's called, and I can buy it here in the
International section.  It has what looks like Chinese writing on the box,
also.  Oddly, I've never seen the equivalent sold as a domestic product.

 > living.  I have also come across an equivalent "tea",
 > but that was
 > worse, and I couldn't drink it.  That didn't matter
 > much, as I could
 > get perfectly good leaf tea.

The cans I spoke of are 180 mL cans, with, I assume, Thai writing on it; the
English text labels it Freeze Extra. It's a good size for a quick pick-me-up.
They also have other brands of 8 oz cans of coffee with or without milk, but
all apparently sweetened.  All these are in the International aisle, separate
from the 9.5 oz bottled Starbuck's and Godiva coffee and mocha drinks they have
elsewhere in the store, and which cost more.  I discovered the foreign coffee
when the Starbuck's coffee prices rose precipitately, temporarily.

 >> vast amount of food knowledge here, and people are
 >> just bursting for an excuse to pass it on.
 >  BM> That's so true.
 >> Just play with it in your food.  :))

 >  BM> Trial and error.

 > With suggestions from the group.  :)

Quite right.  Some novel ideas sound intriguing. :)

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