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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to All on 08-22-15  15:28 <=-

 ML> Nancy pulled out some Agave ginger cashews from Lori's. They
 ML> were just like the Trader Joe ones that I'm familiar with but
 ML> more stale (probably because of the high humidity here at camp).

Possibly also because I got them from the bulk section at Lori's, so
they might have been exposed to Rochester's high-ish humidity whilst
being packaged into the little tubs... I've also noticed that the agave
seems to soften the cashews some anyway...

 ML> Our field trip was to the Potsdam Co-Op about half an hour or
 ML> three-quarters from the camp. 

I note that you left out our lunch before going on the field trip... 
I had brought a couple flavors of Wegmans chicken sausages to try, along
with a package of Wegmans uncured hots (aka white hots)... The sun-dried
tomatoes sausages seemed to be prefered over the spinach-feta sausages. 
The white hots were noted to be quite like a German brockwurst... Steve
grilled all the sausages and dogs on the charcoal grill for us.  Bread
and mustard were available to accompany, as desired...  I'd also picked
up a Roasted Veggies 'veggie bowl' from Wegmans to accompany, a mix of
eggplant, pepper, zucchini, yellow squash, mushrooms and onions...
something for everyone, and just tasting portions...  :)

 ML> Nancy picked up ginger scones from the bakery in
 ML> the next building at the end of the parking lot.

They were available right there in the co-op, but had come from that
bakery in back...

 ML> Somebody - probably Steve - got Natural Brew Outrageous ginger
 ML> ale, which was disappointingly noutrageous, pretty average actually.

Twas indeed Steve, and he also got a Natural Brew root beer which wasn't
bad... a tad better than the ginger ale, anyway...  definitely better
than the 88-cent stuff from Price Chopper.

 ML> I got hummus, lightly garlicked and even more lightly lemoned and
 ML> pretty much as good as the Air Canada version, which is my
 ML> gold standard,

Which got compared to the hummuses that Hafflys brought, one of which
was labled Lemony and was quite so...  ;)

 ML> and oil-cured olives, which were average, which
 ML> means pretty good to me, but most of this group didn't care for
 ML> olives in any form except oil.

I liked them quite well, actually...  I think Ruth took the remainder
home...  :)

 ML> Blue Sky beverages were on special, so I bought
 ML> cola - sweeter and less acid than Coke; Ruth thought it was
 ML> like Pepsi, I said RC;

my least favorite of the three...

 ML> orange cream - pretty good by all estimations; I found it acidy
 ML> and orangey but not creamy in any way (people call things with
 ML> vanilla "cream" for some reason);

Tasted somewhat like an orange creamsicle...

 ML> cherry vanilla - some people thought it was like cough syrup,
 ML> but Nancy and I rather liked it.

Didn't taste at all like cough syrup to me... maybe the vanilla cut
that...?

 ML> Honey Acres chocolate mints - three ingredients, 99% dark
 ML> chocolate coating, 100% honey flavored with oil of peppermint.
 ML> Really good - If you bit in and chewed, you got something like
 ML> the after-dinner mint experience, but if you let the candy
 ML> melt in your mouth, you get this bitter chocolatiness followed
 ML> by a burst of intense minty honey. Good chocolate and good
 ML> honey and good mint. Can't go wrong.

None of those left at the end of the week, either...  :)

 ML> Harry & David relishes - onion and pepper had a nice if puny
 ML> kick; red pepper and ancho chile tasted like sweet pepper
 ML> jelly, nothing special at all.

Also at that meal the red cabbage and apple first came out, to appear as
an accompaniment to various other meals... :)

 ML> Gail made a Key lime pie that went over very well.

It also served as a magnet to encourage participation by Linda and my
son... ;)

 ML> I didn't like the Zevia cola - it tasted really artificial to
 ML> me and actually not very sweet at all; plus it had caffeine.

It had a bitter (after)taste to me... part of the artificial-ly taste,
I'd guess...  At least I know not to get the Zevia soft drinks for me,
now...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... For real sponge cake, borrow all ingredients.

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