Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sun 23 Oct 2005 01:13:38a, Bubba wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>You think pellagra is a congenital disease.
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> Erm... Did you mean Plugra?
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> Pellagra is a deficiency disease due to a lack of niacin.
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Bingo! Which, while corn has, can't be utilized in the natural
form....gotta either soak it in lye, or eat it with beans. Anyway...it
(pellagra) has been the bane of the South at various times and regions.
Most Southern boys are 25% corn by weight, anyway....but, if you're
poor...an all corn diet???? Bad.

Bubba

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