> wrote in message
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> "Newbie" > wrote:
> > WHAT IS A CLAMATO?
> >
> > FOR TO TAHNKING THIS ADVANCEDLY
> >
> Clamato juice. Like clam flavored tomato juice, newbie. Use it in Bloody
> Marys. You still have to add vodka, Tabasco, Worchestershire, black pepper
> and salt. Well, vodka, anyhow. If there's any left over, make another
> Bloody Mary. Get with the program, Newbie. I like ya, so far.
> This is my 12 step program:
> 1) Light the fire & put whatever it is on the grill or in the smoker
> 2) thru 11) DRINK
> 12) EAT
> Drink more!
> Ho! Ho! Ho!

Actually I was trolling Kevin (apparently unsuccessfully) with a wee play on
the word "Kamado". But you knew that.

A chick in Toronto turned me on to this drink you just described--apparently
it is called a bloody Caesar, with variations limited only by one's
imagination--or, lacking that, by the Clamato web site. Yum!

I do, however, have a serious question that is, I guess, marginally on topic
he

I've noticed that tomato juice and Clamato have very little vitamin C in
them, if the nutritional info. labels are to be believed. Why is this?
V-8, though, is damn chock full of all that ascorbic acid and beta carotene
(though this is undoubtedly because of the other veggies they put in the
stuff). Yet, tomato sauce, and especially tomato paste, would be expected
to have *tons* of vitamin C in them--imagine how many tomatoes it takes to
make the stuff --but appear to contain only negligible amounts: In this
case, is the stuff cooked out of it in processing? What's the deal?

Also, I think your 12-step program is seriously flawed. The steps should be
ordered:

2)
1)
3) thru 11)
12) try to remember to EAT

A-and I have come pretty close to missing the 12th step on an embarrassing
number of occasions, esp. with very slow cooking. Therefore, do attempt
this program without a sponsor.

--
YOP...