On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:48:50 -0000, in rec.food.cooking, Ruddell wrote:

>In > Doug Weller wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:49:22 -0500, in rec.food.cooking, -- wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" > wrote in message
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>>>> > > wrote:
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>>>> > BTW, drinking a bottle of carbonated beverage slowly, e.g, a
>>>> > drink
>>>every
>>>> > few minutes, corrodes the teeth more than any other mode of intake.
>>>>
>>>> But will it clean the scale out of my toilet better than C.L.R.
>>>
>>>Definitely - it's base ingredient, phosphoric acid, is used to clean
>>>the rust and scale off the surfaces of the air conditioning water-
>>>plates on the chillers on the large buildings. Works pretty good, and
>>>better than just about anything else. However, CLR doesn't eat out
>>>the pipes in the sewer lines as badly.
>>
>> And Neiman-Marcus wants $200 for their cookie recipe.
>
>The N-M cookie recipe story is internet fokelore. Nothing to it other
>than being a good leg-puller...

Yes, that was exactly my point. So is the Coca-cola story.

Doug
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