Brooklyn1 wrote:
> 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.

Ah, but maraschino cherries are generally junk. I am wondering
whether that started during Prohibition.

I don't like soft drinks. I almost ever drink them, and if I do,
I usually am reminded after I take one sip. I do make ice cream
soda-type things, but I start at the point that the beverage is
somewhat diluted with melted ice cream.

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Jean B.