Cider (or lack thereof) rant
Nancy Young said...
> George wrote:
>> Cindy Fuller wrote:
>
>>> I live in Washington, apple capital of the US. One would think that
>>> real sweet apple cider would be readily available in the fall.
>>> WRONG!!!
>
>> It might even be for the same reason we can't buy real cider in PA.
>> In a typical overreaction the state gov't required that all apple
>> cider must be pasteurized. That really kills a lot of the flavor. I
>> have noticed that most stores don't even seem to bother selling the
>> pasteurized cider.
>
> Usually I find it by the produce section. As far as pasteurized, there
> was a case where children died/became very sick because some
> natural cider company wound up using apples that had fallen to the
> ground, therefore picking up salmonella poisoning from deer droppings
> or whatever.
>
> I have no idea if I'm able to buy unpasteurized, I'm assuming no as
> I do live in the no-runny-eggs rare-burgers state.
>
> nancy
You can get rare burgers over there? Let's lunch?
Andy
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