SC - No Mint - please

[Jenne Heise]

Nope, that was the branch that stayed dutch and drank like fish
;-) Up until my parents house burned we had a great, frightening
family portrait from 1630s - they looked just like they stepped
off a box of the cigars that has the dutch portrait on the front.
Very anal retentive looking - they look like they hadn't
'functioned' in months. Apparently the branch that came over were
the black sheep of the family, but great business sense! They got
in on the ground floor over here;-)

No clue, but if the originals were tinned because animal oils
like whale are slightly acidic and the metal needed the
protection to keep it from corroding, and the family went to
olive oil in the late 1800s because it smelled better [or was
cheaper. The italians were moving into NYC in the late 1800s and
olive oil became fairly cheap just s the whales were becoming
scarce.] They just used a poker to mull with. And yes, something
used to hold an accelerant will get fairly hot
while you are waiting for the fire to finish catching thoroughly.

- -margali
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The Quote Starts Here:
Another factor, although far less important, is volume. This is
more of
a "this is why it _could_ be true", rather than a "this is why it

couldn't be". It holds a respectable pint by anybody's scale. An
oil
container might not need to be, although there's certainly no
reason why
it shouldn't be.

I know! Obviously the van Patten side of the family were early
Temperance Union activists and turned their perfectly good stout
muller
into an oil container...

Adamantius