"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:55:57 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> > wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> Goomba > wrote:
>>> And I look upon people who have already set up house before the marriage
>>> differently than those who don't. I probably won't give them quite the
>>> same gift but surely not something disposable or consumable.
>>
>>There was, I believe, more to the gift than consumables.
>
> I remember only coffee beans and spice blends, both consumables... I
> called them comestibles even though coffee is not technically a food.

She was using tea/dish towels as the excelsior.