[Sca-cooks] Wierd words in baklava ingredients

Daniel Myers edouard at medievalcookery.com
Sun Nov 16 18:11:06 PST 2003


I once picked up an individually wrapped fortune cookie which had as 
it's last ingredient "etc."


On Sunday, November 16, 2003, at 07:41  PM, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Nope, no idea at all! (laughing(
> I had a similar experience last week--picked up a bag of Thai herb
> seasoning in a deli, and looking at the ingredients was informed that
> the package contained "green herbs."  Well, duh!  Even I could see 
> that!
> ;o)
> --maire
>
> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>>
>> A friend of mine was examining the ingredients listing on a box of
>> imported baklava. He believes the labelling on this box may have been
>> constructed by someone with an Arabic-English dictionary but no 
>> knowledge
>> of English. Two words in the ingredients list he came across which
>> intrigued him were: Botanistquail and Sprungboosing
>>
>> Anybody have any idea what those words might stand for?
>>
>> -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>> "I am in a corner without being back[ed?] there and often come out
>> fighting."  -- James Thurber, 1960 interview with Life
>>
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