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On 8/20/2010 9:46 PM, ST wrote:
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>>> The peach ice cream that tastes fuzzy was probably made with dry peaches
>>> that were just cut in half to take the pit out.
>>> And on those, watch out for little 1/32 inch leg fragments.

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>> You have legs in your peaches?????

>
> I hope not---
> That was a stupid comment about what is allowed in foods and spices, which is
> nothing that will harm you physically if everyone does as required by USA law,
> and yet another thing for me to put on my nonexistant list of things I must not say.
>
> 1/32 of an inch is very small but much to big to go all asbestosis on you: Harmless.
> -
> IME, different ways of keeping things from going bad so you won't starve to death
> during the winter/summer* result in different products (dried Killifish eggs** are
> most certainly not salted sturgeon roe), and now it's a day later and I don't know
> why I said this but it seems to kinda make sense.
> -
> Peaches have fuzz on for a reason which I assume is pests.
> This could be the same reason that amber with bugs in exists, and something I've
> noticed is pretty much everything that gets bit bites back, and some of my peaches
> kind of ooze out some really sticky goo that I've never seen bugs stuck in.


The next peach tree I plant is going to be a nectarine, the nectarine is
just a fuzzless peach. You still have to skin them but they are so good
to eat out of hand.

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> IME, peach ice cream that tastes fuzzy was made with skin on dried peach halves.
> --sad face-- 'cuase tastes fuzzy.
> SDT
> Ohio, USA
> *I try not to get cold during the winter here which is summer over there and vice
> versa. So if I were in New Zealand. AC or furnace?
> **Uh, Got any???