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spamtrap1888 > wrote:

> On May 3, 1:59*am, Gabby > wrote:
> > On May 3, 5:27*am, Jeßus > wrote:
> >
> > > Chick pea flour in Australia is most commonly known as 'Besan' flour.
> > > Not sure if that's a world-wide thing or not.
> > > --
> > > Jeßus

> >
> > My first introduction to chick pea flour was to 'gram flour'. *I
> > thought they were saying 'graham flour' which was a product my mom
> > would add to bread but it looked nothing like that product which is a
> > type of whole wheat flour. *It took a while to sort out the mistake.

>
> Graham flour and the Graham cracker were invented by the American
> Presbyterian minister, Sylvester Graham, as foods that would repress
> the sex drive and thus eliminate the urge to masturbate, with all the
> ills that attend that unwholesome practice.


I believe that is why corn flakes were invented by the Kellogg brothers,
also. One of them had some unbelievable number of children. All were
adopted, of course, since he and his wife never had sex.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA