Siobhan Perricone wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 06:31:20 GMT, notbob > wrote:
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>>On 2004-09-26, AMO > wrote:
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>>>Why would Sichuan Peppercorns be a threat to Orange Juice?
>>
>>Are you actually too stupid to look this issue up on Google?
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>
> 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 par ticularthread.Oratleastdon'tget
> 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.
>


I had just answered this question (in this discussion thread I believe)
a day or two ago, and someone immediately asked the same question again,
obviously without reading anything that had been posted recently here.
I just ignored it, but I can see where someone would be ****ed about a
question being asked again when it was *just* answered.

Bob