[Sca-cooks] Food safe firewood

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Daniel Phelps wrote:

> You can add poison wood to the no no list but, as it is only found  
> in this
> country in south Florida, it isn't likely to be encountered except  
> there and
> it is rare even there.
>
> Daniel

For some reason I'm reminded of the official trip of one of our less  
popular Presidents to China, where the toilet seats in his hotel  
suite were all apparently replaced with brand-new ones made of some  
polished wood that turned out to be on a par with poison oak for  
irritation levels...

Adamantius




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