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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to All on 04-18-15  23:21 <=-

 ML> Alden's organic vanilla bean ice cream is a pretty standard
 ML> product but claims organicity, which I suppose is a plus
 ML> assuming you don't have to pay scads extra for the attribute.
 ML> Most of the entries in the ingredients list have "organic"
 ML> in front of them, except for the gums. I wonder why they didn't
 ML> bother to use certified xanthan and guar and locust bean gum -
 ML> maybe there's no authority that bothers with these? Anyhow, the

Possibly there isn't any way to make them organic... or more likely, to
certify them as such...

 ML> ice cream is decent, pluses being a nice creamy smoothness, the
 ML> major minus being a rather fugitive vanilla flavor, as if they
 ML> were deliberately reinforcing the "plain vanilla" stereotype.
 ML> Why have the little companies fallen in lockstep behind the
 ML> conglomerates and shrunk their containers? They used to be a
 ML> half gallon.

I heard it was an inability to get the larger containers, in some way...

 ML> Mint Oreos - Rosemary likes these a lot and took them to an
 ML> after-concert party along with the aforementioned Chips Ahoy!
 ML> and a thing of ginger snaps, about which little need be said.
 ML> They have an abundance (almost as if they were double-stuf
 ML> without that being advertised) of lurid green filling, so
 ML> relatively few of these got eaten.

Anyone that loves mint and chocolate (esp. Oreo) finds those addictive
despite the green color... apparently there weren't very many at the
party that had tried them or that fit that category...  A package
doesn't last long around here when my niece and her husband are around
to help me eat it...  ;)

 ML> Readi-Cat 2 creamy vanilla smoothie - aroma of chalk and
 ML> artificial vanilla. Sweetish, good facsimile vanilla taste
 ML> with a quite spicy attack and a medicinal-plasticky finish.
 ML> Many warring strange tastes. Not very good as a beverage,
 ML> but relatively ununpalatable as a contrast medium - the
 ML> last one I had was wintergreen-flavored and utterly nasty;
 ML> further I had wintergreen burps and farts for a couple days
 ML> afterward. This time, just a bit of watery netherlandish
 ML> discharge and plenty of vanilla-scented gas (more than you
 ML> wanted to know, but, hey, I've always had boundary issues).

So, was this intended as a beverage or as a contrast medium...?  Sounds
like it could be an improvement for the latter... but I certainly
wouldn't want it for the former... ;)

ttyl      neb

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