"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> On 5/25/2014 5:00 PM, pure kona wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 May 2014 11:03:29 -0500, barbie gee >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 24 May 2014, Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>
>>>> They're Mormons, so no coffee gadgets.
>>>
>>> Mormons don't drink coffee?
>>>
>>> What about tea? There's lots of tea gadgets.
>>
>> I have a couple of coffee customers in Utah. I always wonder but
>> would never dare ask.
>>
>> aloha,
>> Cea
>>
> Not all the inhabitants of Utah are Mormons and not all Mormons live in
> Utah. My grandmother was a Mormon and her biggest problem was during WWII
> in Britain when she could not buy a horrible concoction called Postum. She
> used to drink cocoa and worried about that being allowed. I was too young
> to tell her that cocoa contains stimulants and that's perhaps as well.
>
We used to have a restaurant here called The Great American Food And
Beverage Company. It served pretty much everything in huge portions,
intended for splitting. One night we ordered a dessert. I can't remember
now exactly what it was but there was hot fudge sauce. We all tried some
when one person at the table commented that it was the best chocolate he had
ever eaten. I then watched the blood drain from my Moron friend's face. He
didn't realize that fudge was chocolate. And although he had only taken one
bite of it, he sat there is a state of gloom and doom just waiting for
something bad to happen to him. It didn't of course. It was all rather
comical but also rather sad. We were all in high school then. And that's
when I realized that Mormons aren't supposed to have chocolate. They have
carob!