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[Karyn Schmidt]

> Bronwynmgn wrote:
> > You know, I really dislike this particular strategem.  I
know a lot of cooks
> > like to play with chocolate, and find it a really easy
way to make subtleties
> > and such, but darn it, there's enough cool stuff
available in period to
> > ignore it and do something that is better recreation.
>
> This line of reasoning may disgruntle you even more:
> King Adrian Buchanan [of happy memory], circa A.S. 16,
reasoned thusly:
> Carob is period. [C=>P]
> Modern merchants market Carob as a substitute for
Chocolate [C=H]
> Therefore, Chocolate may be deemed as a substitute for
Carob [H=C]
> So we called it "imitation Carob" or better-phrased yet,
"Mock St. John's Bread"
> and ate it anyway.
> Selene, Caid
>
I've done that too.  It works.
Kudrun -- who has also sung viking sea chanteys -- because
they should have been there in Period.

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