"pavane" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> I did ask this on the regular food NG but got no meaningful responses.
>> Anyone have experience with this? We had some good coupons at QFC and
>> one was for our choice of a "natural" item. Angela chose two packages of
>> "whole wheat" pasta but when I got it home, I realized that it also had
>> this flour in it.
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>> Many years ago, we ate some Jerusalem Artichokes raw. I think Angela and
>> my husband only had one bite each. Not enough to give them a problem.
>> Me? I ate quite a few because I liked them. Until the gas began. And
>> never again To me they are worse than sugar alcohols. But someone told
>> me they are less of a problem when cooked.
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>> Has anyone tried this flour? I'm a little leery of this pasta although
>> it is lower in carbs than regular whole wheat stuff.
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> Sorry, I've never come across the flour. But I'm well aware of the
> negative
> effects of them either raw or cooked (yeah, I love the taste. Ah well)
> Quoting from Wikipedia from older sources: "which way soever they be
> dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind
> within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented,
> and are a meat more fit for swine than men."
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke>
> I can't see any reason that grinding them into flour would diminish
> these picturesque effects. Can you?
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> pavane

Sadly no. Now... Do I wish these things upon the food bank? I'm thinking,
no. Should prolly just toss the wretched things.