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Skriven 2006-09-11 22:13:52 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: picnic day 217
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->  RH> Kummel, one hopes.  I doubt I'd waste caraway liqueur on overcooked
->  RH> veggies!
-> 
-> If you could find the stuff.
-> 
http://www.internetwines.com/spirits-liqueur-anise.html
jackpot!  Gilka Kaiser Kummel - supposed to be the good stuff.

->  RH> He's even worse off than me then.   Your little brother sounds like
a
->  RH> product of D.A.R.E. or something.
-> 
-> Probably. He's also quite a literalist. When the Catholic Church
-> says something, he tends to believe it ... but he goes back through
-> the Councils and Convocations through the centuries to see if the
-> doctrine being promulgated is somehow heretical. And he believes
-> the narrowest, most anti-commonsense, anti-freedom interpretation.
-> And that goes for everything. Pain in the butt, he is.

I believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible (where it's intended
to be literal, at least), but Church tradition is a whole different kettle
of matzoh.  I know more about talmudic law, which seems odd until you
remember that my part of Bloomfield had more Jewish families than Catholic
ones for a long time.  

->  ->  RH> A lot don't worry about it.
->  -> That's SOOO dumb and SOOO nasty.
->  RH> There are always more dumb fish in the sea.
-> 
-> We have a bit of (not a great) responsibility for the
-> helpless. 

You can only protect so many for so long.  Then they swim away on their own
and get eaten.  
 
->   The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can
->   they talk? but, Can they suffer?
->   -- Jeremy Bentham
-> 
-> Of course, if they're malignantly clueless and don't take cues,
-> all bets are off.

I figure if they don't read the rules before jumping into the game, it's
their own darned fault.  For things like Ebay, it's spelled out in black
and white in easily accessible places that you don't have to join to
access.  For protection against government stupidity, we ALL need all the
help we can get.
 
-> I believe it still exists some places. As the ice cream was
-> nowhere so good as that of the local creameries in New England
-> (or the fancy parlors, either), there's no reason why it should
-> survive there.

I don't remember the ice creams, probably because I didn't buy much of
that.  The one around here was competing with Peterson Farms, which made
some of the best commercial ice cream in Connecticut.  
 
-> There is one flavor of theirs that I just loved, though -
-> Mandarin chocolate sherbet. Jamoca almond fudge wasn't
-> bad, either.
-> 
I never saw the mandarin chocolate.  I remember the Jamoca. 
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