[Sca-cooks] OT: food, and medical plus part two

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Kirsten Houseknecht:
>well, if they had *real* orange juice i would take that.  given that they
>have this horrid concentrate stuff i usually got water or apple juice.
>
>now that i am on Atkins i suppose i should take a meal bar, as pretzels and
>juice would send my blood sugar out of whack.

I'm reminded of an incident of a couple of years ago; apparently the 
New York City branches of the American Red Cross used to provide a 
particular cookie called Nutter Butters; these were peanut-butter 
cookies shaped like peanuts in the shell, with peanut butter 
sandwiched between them. I _think_ Nabisco made these, and upon their 
announcement that they would cease manufacture of Nutter Butter 
cookies within a few months of the announcement, an immediate drop in 
blood donations resulted. People specifically stated that they did 
for the cookies.

IIRC, Nabisco either finally relented and decided to keep making the 
cookies, or they shipped several warehouses full to the New York 
blood drive people, enough for a couple of years. Anyway, the 
immediate threat to the blood drive was eliminated...

I also seem to recall that a rare Porterhouse steak did wonders for 
perking up my blood-deprived system, the last time I donated ;-)

Adamantius, also no longer allowed to donate blood, but for different 
reasons from 'Lainie's