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Skriven 2015-04-28 06:25:04 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: Diet Soda was:pickity ni
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 * Originally in: Home_Cooking

-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Matt Brewing makes a couple of beers that I like fairly well.
 DD> Adirondack Lager being the leader of those. That being said - they
 DD> won't be depending on me for their profit margins. I have had two
 DD> beers in the past three years.   Bv)=

 RH> That's 2 more beers than I've had in the last 3 years, even including
 RH> root beer and birch beer. Breweries do not get rich off of either of
 RH> us. (G)

 DD> I drink way more A&W Diet than I do real beer.

 RH> My drink of choice (other than water) is Diet Coke. Mornings, tho, I'll
 RH> have a cuppa British Blend tea to get my eyes open. Most of the time I
 RH> do drink water but go for the Coke most times if I'm out.

I drink Diet Coke only if the only other choice is a PepsiCo product. Although
I may give Diet Burpsie a shot again sine they have announced they are
switching out the aspertame for some other fake sugar. Want to see if that does
for the bog-nasty after taste. My preferred diet cola is Coke Zero which
actually tastes like Mexican Co-Cola (sweetened with sugar, not HFCS).

 DD> I'd be more interested in going on down the road a bit to Herkimer to
 DD> see if the Herkimer Toy Co is still there and if they offer factory
 DD> tours.

 RH> That would be a fun one, or panning for Herkimer diamonds.

 DD> Got enough crystals, thank you. Druther go to Arkansas and try for
 DD> real diamonds. But, that's not likely any time soon.

 RH> The Herkimer diamonds are more in my price range. I know there are ruby
 RH> and emerald mines in the western part of NC but we've not stopped at
 RH> any, yet, to try our hand. I'd go for the rubies; my birthstone.

I did that tour when I was going through my phase of interest in lapidary as a
hobby. Most of the stuff is industrial-grade rather than gem grade. Although I
did score a 2 carat ruby that polised into a nice "star" ruby cabacon - and
became a birthday pendant for a lady who was born of 04 July. Her husband paid
me enough for the pendant that my entire two-week trip to the Carolinas was
covered. 

 DD> I was on the Sam Adams tour .... and it was OK from a learning
 DD> standpoint. But the Sam Adams home "plant" is more of a laboratory
 DD> than a production brewery. After a recipe is developed at the Boston
 DD> location it is contracted out for production to breweries around the
 DD> country.

 RH> Probably the same way for products like Coke, pepsi and other drinks.

 DD> Most soft drink companies licence their product and recipe - the
 DD> breweries maintain ownership (and profits).

 RH> Either one, doesn't get many of my dollars. Used to be interesting
 RH> seeing where the sodas were put up but I've not really paid attention
 RH> to it lately. Do they still put it on the can or bottle?

Haven't looked lately .... and all my aluminum cans are smushed down and in the
recycle bag.
 
 DD> OTOH, I took a couple of tours of beer factories (Budweiser in St.
 DD> Louis, MO and Coors in Golden,CO) - and the process was pretty much
 DD> what I used to do in my kitchen and basement when I brewed my own
 DD> beer. The fun part (and something I suspect that Steve might enjoy)
 DD> was watching the packaging machinery for both the bottles and the cans
 DD> ---- as a river of containers came together, was assembled into
 DD> packages, sealed up and stacked on pallets and ready to ship. All with
 DD> minimal visible human intervention.

 RH> A techno-geek's love of machinery in motion--he'd really enjoy that.

 DD> There's a bit of Rube Goldberg in all of us.

 RH> Most of us, not all of us. I know some folks who wouldn't care for the
 RH> ingenuity of them.

They are probably the same people who would gripe at being hung with a new
ope.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Ruby-Red Grapefruit Sorbet
 Categories: Desserts, I scream, Citrus, Wine
      Yield: 11 Servings
 
      1 c  Sugar
      1 c  Water
           Salt
      1 tb Grated red grapefruit rind
      3 c  Fresh red grapefruit juice
      1 c  Semi-sweet sparkling wine *

  * I have used Trader Joe's Cranberry Sparkling soda
  as a substitute since it was on hand for a kid's holiday
  party anyway.
   
  Combine first 3 ingredients in a saucepan; stir well.
  Bring to a boil; cook 1 minute or until sugar dissolves,
  stirring constantly. Remove from heat; pour into a large
  bowl, and stir in grapefruit rind. Let cool to room
  temperature.
  
  Add grapefruit juice and sparkling wine to sugar mixture.
  Pour mixture into the freezer can of an ice-cream freezer;
  freeze according to manufacturer's directions.
  
  Spoon into a freezer-safe container; cover and freeze 2
  hours.
  
  Yield: 11 servings (serving size: 1/2 cup).
  
  From: http://www.recipesource.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
 
MMMMM

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