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

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 06:04 PM 8/13/03 -0400, you wrote:
>
>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...

??? They're available here, or at least they were only a couple of months
ago. I LOVE Nutter-Butters, but if I buy them, I can eat the whole package
in a day and a half, if not less. Bad for butt width. But you can sometimes
get them at the checkout, along with Oreos, in caby-bar sized packs. Just
enough to keep the Jones at bay...

'Lainie
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