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Default Recovering a block of sugar?


"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Thu 13 Mar 2008 01:29:20p, Paul M. Cook told us...
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>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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>>> Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>>>> news >>>>> blake murphy wrote:
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>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:27:10 -0800, Blinky the Shark
>>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>>>>Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>>>>>>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news >>>>>>>>> Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> "Pringles CheezUms" > wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>>>> We have a bag of sugar that has turned into a solid block. How

> do
>>>>>>>>>>> you recover it? (i.e. turn it back into usable granules)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Chop it up and whiz it in the food processor.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And then......I keep brown sugar in a capped jar in the fridge;

> it's
>>>>>>>>> been in there for a couple years, probably, and is as nicely
>>>>>>>>> un-caked as the day put it in there.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Years? You mean you don't get a craving for bananas foster at 3
>>>>>>>> o'clock in
>>>>>>>> the morning?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I might now. But until now I'd never even heard the phrase "bananas
>>>>>>>foster".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> i thought bananas foster was a mob figure.
>>>>>
>>>>> I almost said something along those lines, too.
>>>>
>>>> So it slipped past you?
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>>> I chose not to post it.

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>> I was appealing to your sense of humor.
>>
>> Paul
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> Banana peeling?


Bingo.

Paul