Re: [gardeners] Mother's Cooking was Seeds
Cheryl & Erich Schaefer (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:48:46 -0500 (EST)
>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
I haven't got an answer but it was a great segue back to gardening. Cheryl
Cheryl Schaefer
schaefer @epix.net
Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY