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- From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
- Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.181040.28018@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:10:40 GMT
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- In article <1k3qacINNdc1@shelley.u.washington.edu> lazuli@byron.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:
- >mss2@midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
- >
- >>> "`Cordial'? The only definition of that I know as a noun is
- >>>`liqueur', which I _assume_ isn't served in Australian primary
- >>>schools. :-) Care to dispel my benighted ignorance?"
- >
- >Then Shonias wrote:
- >
- >>That one seems to have baffled a few... sorry, I didn't realise that was an
- >>Australianism... What do Americans call it? Do they have it? Ummmm...
- >>well it is like... a concentrate that you mix up with water to make a
- >>sweet, flat, drink. Tend to come in colours rather than flavours... red,
- >>green... although there is lemon. Hmmmm, I can't think of any other name
- >>for it.... am I just forgetful? Anyone know?
-
- >If I'm not terribly mistaken, us over here in the dancingest hemisphere on
- >Earth (:3 call that stuff Kool-Aid (tm). Hope that was helpful.
-
- "Well, from an e-mail discussion with DM, it seems that
- cordials come as a syrup to be reconstituted, rather than a powder
- like Kool-Aid and its analogs. Thing is, I don't know if that _has_
- an equivalent here-- whole liquid, frozen concentrate, and powder I'm
- familiar with, but syrups only as bases for commercial use."
-
- Michael
- --
- Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS "I decline utterly to be impartial
- mss2@midway.uchicago.edu as between the fire brigade and the fire."
- mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu -- Winston Churchill, July 7, 1926
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