Rex Harrill wrote:
> Ellie Rotunno wrote partially in response to a wise crack by me that I was
> going to check my coconut for a sugar injection hole:

> > I found a fairly big sized puncture in the bottom of one of the coconuts
> > encased in the fibrous containers that look like little huts...the ones I
> > bought in China town. The milk tasted almost too good.

> Ellie, I was making a funny.  Pardon me for not putting the smiley at the
> end.  Please tell me that you've read my comment that putting sugar in a
> fruit juice does *not* improve the flavor in the sense of improving the
> Brix.  Every time I've experimented with adding sugar to fresh fruit or
> vegetable juice, the result has tasted yuckky.

I'm well aware of the posionous nature of refined sugar. Stefan had
suggested that these coconuts from Chinatown might be tampered with and I
have been on alert about that.

My best, Ellie