blake wrote on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:32:45 GMT:

??>> blake wrote on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:52:31 GMT:
??>>
??>>>>> Refrigerated essentials:
??>>>>> milk
??>>>>> eggs
??>>>>> Parmesan cheese
??>>>>> Tabasco sauce
??>>>>> carrots
??>>>>
??>>>> There's no need to refrigerate Tabasco. And I agree
??>>>> with your husband about the soy sauce. In fact, it says
??>>>> so on the bottle too.
??>>>>
bm>>> i don't refrigerate tabasco or soy (bottle be damned),
bm>>> but they're used up pretty quickly in my household.
??>>
??>> When I buy soy sauce, I buy a gallon can and it keeps
??>> pretty well at room temperature for months being opened to
??>> fill the table bottle.
??>>
??>> James Silverton

bm> i used to do that as well, but then the pricing at giant
bm> changed so the price per quart was just about the same for
bm> the can as the smaller bottle. but soy definitely keeps.

Giant's pricing can be a bit weird, usually higher priced than
other chains altho' recently they were selling leeks by the
bunch for the price other chains charged per pound. I weighed a
bunch and it was pretty close to 2 lbs. I buy my soy sauce in a
Chinese supermarket.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not