SC - Cassia bark vs Cinnamon

grasse@mscd.edu grasse at mscd.edu
Wed Jan 27 08:06:24 PST 1999


Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/27/99 5:05:31 AM US Mountain Standard Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
> 
> >  Tomatoes are never an exception; if they give you trouble you
> >  need to learn to sharpen a knife
> 
> You've obviously only tried to slice those pink plastic balls sold in grocery
> stores labeled "tomatoes" that have no true relationship to real tomatoes
> grown in dirt in the sunshine.  A real tomato's skin is paper thin, and only
> fleetingly connected to the delicate flesh beneath, which is bursting with
> juices and soft and lovely.  Slicing with a straight edged knife leaves
> bruises, tears the skin, and crushes the flesh.

Sorry, but I repeat:

>  Tomatoes are never an exception; if they give you trouble you
>  need to learn to sharpen a knife.

I've grown my own tomatoes, on and off, since I was about four. I know a
real tomato when I see one, and I know how hard they can be to slice
effectively. I also know how to sharpen a knife. 

Adamantius
- -- 
Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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