Re: [gardeners] Mother's Cooking was Seeds
Kay Lancaster (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 13:36:25 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Liz Albrook wrote:
> The one that always did me in was Phillip's Milk of Magnesia. My
> mother loved to dose you up with that stuff. Yuck! I still remember
> the day that she mixed a spoon of it in a glass of water and made me
> drink it. ::shudder::
Might as well lick a blackboard eraser. ;-) Kaopectate was guuuuud, too!
As to Fletcher's and Dr. Pepper... Dr. Pepper doesn't have that underlying
pong of oil of wintergreen that Fletcher's had.
> I gotta go use some mouthwash now. Yuck.
Mom didn't believe in mouthwash. She'd hand you a stick of celery.
Which may explain my love/hate relationship with celery.
Speaking of which, anyone got some good recommendations for celery
cultivars for the PNW?
Kay Lancaster kay@fern.com