I'm a MCINL on buying anything special due to recipes posted here, but only
because I rarely get recipes from here. I tend to post more of them than
the average person.

I mostly use Fidonet for my real recipe gleaning and will often get a new
ingredient based on a recipe there, or if i have one, ask and get good ideas
back.

Fidonet for those not familiar with it, is another system not related to
newsgroups nor is it a web group. Kinda predates both and been playing on
Fidonet since about 1987 or so.