On 2018-04-08 10:47 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/8/2018 5:36 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I was going to cook for my former in-laws and my recipe called for
>> marjoram which they did not have. I asked around and nobody knew what
>> it was. They kept thinking I was saying margarine!
>
> Not your fault they didn't understand you.Â* Here's a hint: marjoram and
> oregano are pretty much interchangeable.Â* They probably didn't have
> oregano, either.
>


Yeah... nobody in Bothell other than Julie has heard of Marjoram. I
would have expected that an experience writer and gourmet cook could
have explained that it is a herb in the mint/oregano family and found a
stocking clerk or grocery manager who knows what he orders and stocks.
Personally, I think it is just more bovine crap that Julie thought would
make an amusing anecdote.