[Sca-cooks] Ancient rice pudding used as mortar for walls

[Huette von Ahrens]

And then along came two Chinese children,
Han Sel and Gre Tal and they ate a hole in the
Great Wall, allowing barbarians to enter and
cause the Dynasty to fall ...

Huette

--- Anne <juliane.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, they BUILT the wall with fruitcake.  Rice
> pudding was the mortar ...  :)
> 
> Juliane Rose
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:58:37 -0500, Phlip
> <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> > 
> > > http://tinyurl.com/3wl6l
> > >
> > > Rice Pudding used as mortar in ancient
> Chinese fortifications (confirmed
> > > through scientific analysis) and maybe also
> in the Great Wall (oral
> > > history to be confirmed).
> > >
> > > Sharon
> > > gordonse at one.net
> > 
> > Are they sure they didn't confuse it with
> fruitcake?
> > 
> > Saint Phlip,
> > CoD
> > 
> > "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a
> hammer."
> > Blacksmith's credo.
> > 
> > If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a
> duck, it is probably not a
> > cat.
> > 
> > Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> > And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> > 
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