| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
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| 3478.1 | Try Shaw's too | TNPUBS::NORTEMAN |  | Tue Mar 17 1992 12:36 | 3 | 
|  |     I used to find it at Purity Supreme.
    
    --Karen
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| 3478.2 | Restaurant supply houses | FAIR83::JENSEN |  | Mon Jul 20 1992 11:55 | 18 | 
|  |     Call a restaurant supply house.  There should be one in Nashua or
    Manchester.  Spices can also be obtained there in bulk.  Much cheaper
    too.  If you can't find one locally there is an excellent one in
    Worcester, MA.  Caravan, Inc. located on lower Main St.  They do not
    like checks so take money and be advised they are open during the
    trade's business hours only.  Saturday mornings only.  Call before
    you go just in case.  They used to give 40% off to everyone which would
    be well worth knowing in advance.  The quality of goods is better for
    commercial stuff too.  They wouldn't put up with having to replace
    something too often.
    
    RE: Herb-Ox or any flavoring of that type please keep in mind that it
    is on a salt-base.  That means that they start with salt and put the
    flavoring on it.  This is why things can have such a high sodium
    content.  Knorr products are developed in Tyngen, Switzerland, and have
    a definite European overtone.  Americans don't flavor their food as
    highly.
    
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| 3478.3 | What about the skins... | FRUST::HAMILTON |  | Fri Aug 07 1992 04:46 | 5 | 
|  |     When I was a kid my mother always tried to get me to eat the skin along
    with the potato for nutritional reasons.  Since I have been in Germany 
    everyone tells me that this practice is dangerous because the spuds
    are sprayed/dusted with an inhibitor to keep them from sprouting. What
    gives?  What do we do differently in the US?
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| 3478.4 | better living thru chemistry?? | FORTSC::WILDE | why am I not yet a dragon? | Fri Aug 07 1992 16:11 | 17 | 
|  | 
>    When I was a kid my mother always tried to get me to eat the skin along
>    with the potato for nutritional reasons.  Since I have been in Germany 
>    everyone tells me that this practice is dangerous because the spuds
>    are sprayed/dusted with an inhibitor to keep them from sprouting. What
>    gives?  What do we do differently in the US?
nothing.  In this day and age, if you eat potatoes regularly, you don't
want to eat the skin.  If you prepare the potatoes yourself, then you
can scrub the skin really well with a brush and eat it...however, in
a person who is "sensitive" to the fungicides/pesticides/growth inhibitors
out there, it wouldn't be enough.  For that matter, if you are worried
about such stuff, you should avoid the vegetables which are treated
period - it gets to be a systemic treatment very quickly.  Buy organic.
In years past, much less chemistry was practiced on our food supply - that
is  why rules about eating the skins of spuds and carrots have changed.
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| 3478.5 | But my store-bought potatoes sprout anyhow. ?? | BROKE::AITEL | beware the lurking skid demon | Sat Aug 08 1992 21:32 | 3 | 
|  |     ich! Now I'm really glad I planted potatoes in my garden!
    
    --L
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