On Tue, 22 May 2012 23:34:49 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:40:48 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>
>>> z z wrote:
>>>> I dont own a rasp/grater and I am in the middle of making lemon bars :-)
>>>> I have never bought a lemon before lol and need fresh grated lemon. Mom
>>>> gave this to me for a Christmas gift after reading about it in a
>>>> products review site. Embarassed to admit I just now opened it:
>>>>
>>>> "Endurance stainless steel Select-A-Peel"
>>>>
>>>> Three blade choices-regular, softskin, julienne. I used softskin on my
>>>> lemon. With no pressure it peeled long extremely thin slices from the
>>>> yellow of the lemon. LIke buttah! Smells divine and this stuff will be
>>>> great in a cold drink as well.
>>>>
>>> You have never bought a lemon? How old are you? How does one
>>> LIVE without buying a lemon (unless one can afford NOTHING)? Of
>>> course, I ask this from the POV of a person who is extremely
>>> partial to lemons.
>>
>> You'd be amazed, *most* folks never buy lemons, they use bottled lemon
>> juice. I buy lemons only when specifically needed for a recipe but I
>> always have limes on hand.
>
>I outgrew bottled lemon juice a very long time ago. I really
>don't like it. (Have there been advances in their flavor over the
>years>)

Probably not. I bought a bottle of Real Lemon to try it maybe 50
years ago, it was so awful I poured it down the drain. I don't even
like Crystal Light and its ilk lemon drink powders because it tastes
like Real Lemon. I do like the cherry flavored powders, because I
don't expect it to taste like real cherries, tastes closer to
marachinno. I'm not a fan of 7-Up and other lemon flavored carbonated
beverages, to me they all taste medicinal.