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- From: biddleco@mizar.usc.edu (Susan Biddlecomb)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Mail order company packaging (was Re: Brio Compatible Thomas trains)
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 10:09:46 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Nov19.182849.7445@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov21.141127.3652@astrals.portal.com>
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- In article <1992Nov21.141127.3652@astrals.portal.com> shams@astrals.portal.com (Sharon Zakhour) writes:
- >I just received a package from a company in Vermont that used a new kind
- >of packing peanut made from cornstarch. If you hold one of the peanuts
- >under water it instantly dissolves.
- >
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- You can eat them, too. I was unaware of these until one day my assistant
- (at 23-year-old kid :-)) was unpacking some computer equipment and when he
- noticed I was watching he started stuffing the peanuts in his mouth and
- swallowing them.
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- I tried one. Kind of bland ....
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- Susan
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