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Default Fortune Cookie Horror

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:44:53 -0800, Mark Thorson >
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>Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> Before I opened my individually-wrapped fortune cookie last night, I
>> read the label:
>>
>> "Bleached wheat flour, sugar, ... high fructose cyamopsis
>> tetragonoloba..."
>>
>> I put the fortune cookie down and stepped back carefully, not
>> wanting to know what else was in store for me.

>
>Oh, fer cryin' out loud. What a weenie!
>It's guar gum.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guar


Yabbut, who wants gum made out of these things?
http://animals.mongabay.com/zoo/guar-01.html
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