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"B-P Golden Oldies: - Dwell time 5 minutes." <[log in to unmask]>
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Re: Mind your condiments....
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In a message dated 4/4/06 4:43:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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"I guess the new houses have improved the  neighborhood, but I miss the old 
raspberry and hoisinberry bushes that used to  grow there. I loved to go pick 
them."
 
So I was told last week by someone on 128th  Street.  
 
One problem.
 
Hoisinberries don't grow on  bushes.
Hoisinberries don't even grow.
There is no such thing as a  hoisinberry.  
Hoisin sauce is made  from soybeans, sweet pototoes - but not berries. 



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Christopher:
 
Damn NY city boys, their accents, and public schoolin'.  It's  Boysenberries. 
 
 
Quick:  What's the difference between hay and straw?  
 
Good thing that it wasn't gooseberries.  Who knows what your prose  would 
have revealed.
 
Steve  Stokowski
Stone Products Consultants
_http://members.aol.com/crushstone/petro.htm_ 
(http://members.aol.com/crushstone/petro.htm) 

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