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graham[_4_]

On 07/12/2014 1:57 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:46:43 -0600, Janet Wilder >
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/7/2014 10:46 AM, graham wrote:
>>> On 07/12/2014 9:16 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>>>> On 12/7/2014 6:59 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 03:06:47 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have a source? I was watching Extra Virgin in the wee
>>>>>> hours
>>>>>> yesterday and they made a tomato sauce with a ton of pine nuts in
>>>>>> it. Also
>>>>>> had a little Parmesan but I would leave that out. Then Debi Mazar
>>>>>> had an
>>>>>> accident with the blender. She spilled it everywhere so her husband
>>>>>> had to
>>>>>> whip up another batch. I don't have the actual recipe but it looked
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> they added about a cup of the pine nuts to the sauce. They also
>>>>>> tossed some
>>>>>> in the salad. I love pine nuts but when I find them for sale they are
>>>>>> always expensive so I ration them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We get them at BJ's for a reasonable price. Probably Costco too. It
>>>>> has been a while so I don't recall the price, but I do know it was
>>>>> less than half of what some small store would charge.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The cheaper ones are from China.
>>>>
>>> I saw some in an Italian store yesterday but since they were a bulk
>>> product, the origin wasn't given. I understand that the Chinese ones can
>>> impart a metallic taste that can affect one for days. Has anyone
>>> experienced it with those from the Mediterranean region?
>>> Graham
>>
>>
>> I never had that problem with the Chinese ones, but I have heard others
>> did. I don't know anyone who had a problem with the ones from Italy.
>
> Lol half an hour ago I came up in the elevator with a man who couldn't
> seem to handle the groceries properly. I held the elevator open for
> him, pressed the appropriate buttons and was just about to castigate
> him for buying their groceries at Wartmart and tell him he risked the
> goods being from China, when I realised, he is Chinese lolol
>
A similar thing happened to me last xmas. I was at the fresh fish
counter and was about to complain about all the frozen fish being
labelled "Product of China" when I realised..........
Graham