at a very young age, i married a woman 10 years older than i who loved her coffee. as i started to learn to drink coffee, the chant was always, "the only civilized way to drink coffee is black", and that's the way i drink it to this day. :) -ar At 09:21 PM 8/4/99 -0400, Charles Demas wrote: >On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Angel R. Rivera wrote: > >> my father who has always been a big chile eater has >> started telling me at the age of 10 that coffee will help >> a lot more than water will. 37 years later i still think it >> is true. -ar > >Would that be black coffee, or coffee with cream and sugar? >Watch that dairy stuff. :-) > >FWIW, I'm told that carbonated soda makes the burn worse rather than >helping. > >When I was trying out some of the Hotest Hot sauces at the Pig 'n' Pepper >last year, I think I tried Da Bomb. Does it have a clove taste to it? >Whatever I tried did. Anyway, it didn't seem that hot, so I tried more. >Big error!!! The heat takes time and builds. Yougurt helped some, but >not much. It wasn't killing, I'm still here, right, but it took 5 - 10 >minutes to subside. I'm told I became a bit flushed. :-) > > >Chuck Demas >Needham, Mass. > > Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all, > Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well, > Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it. > demas@tiac.net | \___/ | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas > Angel R. Rivera, angel@wolf.com PGP Public Key at: ldap://certserver.pgp.com http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 Thawte Freemail Member <angel@wolf.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Schopenhauer