On 10/1/2015 4:22 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
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>> When I lived with Bryan in Novelty Studios, we played with food
>> colorings, and had some black food coloring. We made some black
>> pancakes that looked like little manhole covers!! We used the
>> colorings as a way to disuade our often present friends from wanting
>> us to make them any food while we were making ourselves some food! And
>> some blue and green spagetti with black sauce!! Not to mention putting
>> a few drops of green food coloring in a big can of peanuts, cashews,
>> maybne mixed nuts and shaking it around to make all the nuts look
>> moldy!
>>
>> People are funny about the appearance of their food.
>>
>> John Kuthe...
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(Apologies for piggybacking on your reply, Julie)

What John is saying is he and Bryan would prepare food in front of these
so-called "friends" but were too cheap to offer them any. Better to go
out of their way to make food appear unattractive than to offer to feed
them, or better yet, simply ask them to leave.

Jill