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Skriven 2007-09-28 22:47:58 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BARBARA MCNAY
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->  >  BM> though certainly not unheard of in the US.
-> 
->  > Good catch, he immigrated from China to England.
-> 
-> And then to the US.  I am always impressed by people who learn a
language like
-> English after having spent a childhood using a different language with a
-> non-Roman alphabet, or symbols.
-> 
It's a pretty good trick at that.  I've known a bunch of people who did it,
with varying degrees of success, but have managed to learn very little of
those languages myself. (unless you count some Vietnamese food labels of
course)

->  >  BM> One wonders what "Best New Orleans sugar" is, that its use makes
a
->  >  BM> stronger candy than white or light brown sugar.  Dark brown
sugar,
->  >  BM> perhaps?
->  > I was thinking something along the lines of turbinado or
->  > dried cane juice.
-> 
-> I haven't tasted turbinado, but I've chewed on grass and assume that's
what
-> cane juice tastes like.  In that case, I should say the white or brown
sugar
-> would be an improvement.

Not even close.  Turbinado is wonderful stuff.  It's unrefined sugar. 
Grass is ... grassy.  I did a wheatgrass shot once, out of curiosity.  It
wasn't worth repeating at any price.  
 
->  > Perhaps Dirty Dave will come out of his stupor and
->  > remind us
->  > of the story. After all, he's called Dirty Dave for a
->  > reason.
-> 
-> True, and he uses that appelation himself.

Once upon a time he ran the projector in a dirty movie house - back when
they had dirty movie houses.
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