On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 06:31:20 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2004-09-26, AMO > wrote:
>
>> Why would Sichuan Peppercorns be a threat to Orange Juice?
>
>Are you actually too stupid to look this issue up on Google?

Ok, so I took up your challenge and because that I had no idea about any of
this before you saw your thread, I only had Sichuan Peppercorns and Orange
Juice to search on. Took me around 8 minutes to find this:

"the Sichuan Pepper or "fagara" which is used in at least half of the key
recipes on this book, has been BANNED in the USA by the US Department of
Agriculture because it carries a devastating canker virus that kills citrus
plants. The US is not expected to lift this ban anytime soon, it may be
decades before they consider the spice to be safe for import."

It probably would have taken you all of 30 seconds to have typed something
like that out here.

If you don't want to have a conversation here, then don't say things like
you did at the beginning of this particular thread. Or at least don't get
all snarky and snotty about it when someone asks you a question about
something you've said here. It was a perfectly reasonable question to have
asked, and the other poster in no way deserved you calling him stupid for
thinking you might actually engage in a dialog by answering his question.

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