[Sca-cooks] poppyseeds?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Terry Decker:
>As I recall, raw opium is extracted by nicking the seed pod and letting
>gravity collect the sap at the bottom end of the cut.  There is a certain
>amount of skill required in making a proper cut.

The very first shot in the mostly-ill-conceived and entirely 
ill-fated movie "The Shadow" is one of an unnamed person collecting 
opium from poppies using a gizmo a little like a nutmeg grater. 
Whether this is accurate or not, I don't know. (For those lucky ones 
who haven't seen it, this movie is a great deal like the 1989 Batman 
movie, with an excellent opening five minutes, and downhill fast the 
rest of the way. But the concept of the hero being a ruthless, 
murderous, drug-running warlord in Chiang Kai-Shek-era Nepal, is not 
only cool but also _almost_ faithful to the pulp magazine stories...)

Adamantius