Sounds like a description of Dave's --- watered down, of course. Scott Thurston scottie@sequent.com Phone: (503) 578-3878 Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. FAX: (503) 578-2075 15450 SW Koll Parkway Beaverton, OR 97006 O- > -----Original Message----- > From: J.B Cattley [SMTP:jbc@mpx.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 1:49 AM > To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com > Subject: [CH] Funny hotsauce qoute > > I was reading Neal Stephenson's 'The Diamond Age' the other day, (sort of > cyberpunk... sort of. Read this book!) and came across the following > passage: > > Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, > ginger, > tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove > cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium mill tailings, > muffler cores, monosodium glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and > nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite, activated > charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar, nicotine, single-malt > whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, > bituminous coal, fallout, printer's ink, laundry starch, drain cleaner, > blue > chrysotile asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings. >