I don't post my true e-mail address for exactly the same reason Shelagh.
When I was first on the newsgroups I did carry my correct e-mail and on my OH's recommendation stopped doing that because I was receiving some (very) peculiar spam mail offering me: a) equipment I neither wanted nor needed and/or b) enhancement for equipment I had never had! LOL
Bernadette ;-)
Sorry Shelagh it appeared when i tried to send a letter to Mary as her adress here is specified ... I have no intention upsetting any one thus i am sorry ,, the lady thinks it is funny to add all kinds of unkind remarks to my posts ,, i am not happy with it and wish her to stop. mirjam
AHA Bernadette i do understand that , esp the part of gettting offers for equipment neither of us have ..... :>:>: i must say i wondered why they never offer cheap or free BustHolders ,,, or things i can use ,,,, My server provided me with some filters and it helped . Ps the latest craze which all of you should beware NOT TO OPEN , are simmingly ECRADS you get from your mate/neighbour/class mate/friend /collegue etc,,,,, Besides thisd those of you who befriended me all entrusted me with your real post,,, i have my reason for keeping mine non secretive ....mirjam
I'm sorry, Mirjam, I don't understand any of that. I never use any other address.
Mary
Ah, I see! In fact I've had some unwanted mails in the past but now I subscribe to Computer Associates Security Suite, which has an efficient spam trap as well as a firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware elements.
It's not cheap but it works and gives me security, I don't have to worry about anything to do with my pc.
If someone else is using my name in vain it must be someone on this ng - which is sad. I didn't see it.
Mary
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I don't think I've ever had the "torpedoes", but the sound yummy! By the way, we used to do the same with red jelly beans on our lips. ;o)
You know what I loooove that I tasted for the first time when I visited England a few years ago? Pear Drops!!! Oooh, I just made my mouth water!
*hugs* GeminiI bought myself a bag of licorice twists today... see all that talk about it, made me want some... and the ingredients on the bag read as follows....
Blackstrap Molasses, Wheat Flour, Corn Syrup, Sugar, Corn Starch, Licorice Extract, Palm Oil, Soybean Oil, and Modified Palm Oil, Salt, Natural Flavour, Colour, Potassium, Sorbate, Mineral Oil, Soy Lecithin. That's it in the Licorice made in Canada! It could very well be different... with more or less things in it... in different countries, but that's what this bag of Canadian Licorice has in it.
*hugs* Gemini
Mirjam,
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Hi Gemini Can you buy peardrops where you are? If not, I wonder if I could send you some. they are lovely and make your jaw ache and your mouth water. Also pineapple chunks, they are just sweets but look and taste like pineapple and have the same effect in your mouth. I'll get some and put them in a tin for you and send you them if you like.
Not many shops here sell sweets by the quarter from a jar, but the old town of Lacock still does and I know they do both pear drops and pineapple chunks...oh and Rhubarb and Custard...all these childhood memories
higz Cher
LOL! When I read ingredient labels on commercially prepared 'foods' I often wonder how there's any room left for the ingredient I want! I end up not buying them ...
Things have certainly changed since I was a child - for our good, we're told ...
Mary
They were torpedo shaped. The outer sugar shell was coloured with various hues and the inside was a rod of chewy liquorice. I don't know if they're still available.
And that's one of the very few sweets I couldn't abide!
Mary
You're in Lacock? Only a few miles from where son Nathan lives, in Chippenham. We're going to stay with him at the end of August.
Mary
"Not Likely" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:
i just bought an ounce of licorice root. i like to chew on a bit once in a while & i'll probably put some in tea when it get cold again. the root doesn't taste as strongly of 'licorice' as the candies tend to, but it's *really* sweet tasting. lee
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Yes, I like that too. It really is very sweet!
I'm wondering about liquorice flavoured puddings or cakes ... hmm ... nice! At the Pontefract liquorice festival I've had locally brewed liquorice beer which was very good and when I smoked 'roll-ups' I enjoyed using liquorice paper. Sometimes I'd just lick it without using tobacco :-)
Mary
Gemini i have stopped eating anything , wityh any chenical in it for some years now ,, my sweets are Bananans apples , peaches , nuts etc,,, But i remembered having glued some paper memories in an Album years ago [ over 48 years ago] it deffinitely has the name Anijs in it which is DUTCH for Anise ,, thus my memory hasn`t failed me , amybe you are all too young and nowadays they don`t use it anymore [ chenicals are so much cheaper ] i would not touch something with all this stuff in it ,,, mirjam
"Mary Fisher" wrote in news:46a7316f$0$30922$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:
licorice beer? that sounds interesting... wouldn't have any idea if the licorice root is added to the boil or just before racking to the fermenter, do you? i'd suspect one would boil the root... we just made a Scarborough Faire Ale (parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme) that's in secondary right now. it tasted very much of thyme before we pitched the yeast (as tea), but after first fermentation it's overwhelmingly sage. i'm hoping that it will, like the chocolate peppermint beer, even out more with aging. the chocolate peppermint was *way* too peppermint when young, but smoothed out after a secondary fermentation & about
6-8 weeks in the bottle. my gardens are going rapidly to brewing & dye plants, i'm afraid ;) lee
Oh I know! I remember one tin of really nice cookies I bought a few years ago. When I went back to that city (never saw them anywhere else, even though the same store chain is in a city closer to us) a few months later they were no longer on the shelf and I was told "Maybe they were only brought out for that particular season". I still had the tin they came in (I like decorative tins), so I started reading the ingredients on the side hoping I might be able to find a close recipe for the cookies online. I did all kinds of web searches, and recipe club searches... no luck. Since I cooking/baking is not one of my favorite things to do, and besides I wouldn't want to waste the ingredients "playing" with amounts, I just gave up hoping to ever have those cookies again.
My son says the same thing as I do... it seems everytime you find something you really enjoy, it disappears off the market. *shrug* Oh well, guess we just aren't meant to have them. ;o)
*hugs* Gemini
Hmmm... interesting uses of licorice by both of you that I've actually never heard of. Not sure I would like any of it though... I have pretty simple tastes when it comes to food and drink, and don't venture far from my preferred tastes. ;o)
*hugs* Gemini
I gave up looking at labels and reading ingredients, unless I suspect that something may contain "aspertame" (sp) or other "sugar substitute", as I detest the aftertaste it leaves in my mouth, and it makes me feel very sick. I seriously cannot stand "diet" pop, or "diet" whatever else, so I am very fortunate that I'm not diabetic. My oldest sister is, and she has tried to persuade me to taste different "sugarless" things... but everytime I do try even the tiniest taste at all, I can taste it for the next four hours or so. It's not just my imagination either... my son and a lot of other people I know say the same thing.
My only reason for bothering to read the ingredients for my bag of licorice yesterday, is because you and Mary kept saying different things about it... so I looked... in the Canadian-made licorice there is no mention at all of anise, or anything close to that... so it obviously isn't in licorice in every country. I didn't particularly care if it was in the ingredients or not, I like the way my licorice tastes... but I was just curious.
By the way, I tasted those Dutch licorice candies years ago when I went to school with a lot of Dutch kids. They were very salty as I remember, but I did like them. They are still available in grocery stores here.
I love fruits (and vegetables) too, so I don't really *need* the candy, I just enjoy it... and I figure, it hasn't killed me or done anything horrible to me yet, so I'm not worrying about giving it up... except for Lent (40 days out of the year won't hurt me to be without). ;o)
*hugs* Gemini
Mail me the ingredients and I'll have a go ... and share the result with you if it's good :-)
Mary
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