SC - Saxon Violets

[Magdalena]

Yes there is a thing called "Mexican" saffron.  I don't know which plant it 
is taken from, but it tasts more like poor quality tumeric than anything 
else.

  Lady Katherine McGuire



>From: CBlackwill at aol.com
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - saffron
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:35:16 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/29/00 12:18:00 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>stefan at texas.net writes:
>
> > ne of the main things to be aware of is to make sure you are actually
> >  getting saffron and not an imitation.
>
>Is there such a bird as "imitation saffron"?    I would think that U.S. 
>Truth
>in Menu Laws (or Standards of Fill, etc) would prohibit the sale of 
>something
>labeled saffron, if it was not really saffron (of some grade or another.)  
>Of
>course, this is not a U.S. only list we are on, is it? Caveat Imptor
>
>
>Man cannot live on bread alone... he must have beer to soak it in.
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