SCP wrote on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:38:47 -0500:

> -->On 2009-10-17, Zeppo > wrote:
> -->
> -->> able to get kaffir lime since last spring when FDA
> officials raided all the
> -->> Asian groceries in the region and confiscated all the
> lime leaves. WTF? -->
> -->What state was this in?
> -->
> -->No one expects the FDA to look out for the consumer, only
> agribiz, -->which is what that's all about. Foreign grown
> Kaffir lime trees are -->verboten in many citrus producing
> states. Apparently, those shops -->didn't have "papers" for
> their trees. One grower ships their US -->raised kaffir lime
> trees to all but 3 states: -->

>Makrud limes are available in most markets supplying the east Indian
>segment of
>the population. btw kaffir is derogatory and offensive in some
>cultures.

I did know that "kaffir" had been used in South Africa but had not
realised it was really derogatory. However, Gernot Katzer's article on
Kaffir Limes confirms this. Here is the URL for Gernot's page
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not