On Sun, 10 May 2009 12:46:01 -0500, Omelet >
wrote:

>In article >,
> Mack A. Damia > wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 10 May 2009 16:26:26 GMT, blake murphy
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Sun, 10 May 2009 01:21:03 -0500, Omelet wrote:
>> >
>> >> In article >,
>> >> "brooklyn1" > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
>> >>> ...
>> >>>> In article >,
>> >>>> "brooklyn1" > wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> This is the only one you want, accept no substitutes:
>> >>>>> http://www.shopworldkitchen.com/inde...pc=70950000306
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I just peeled a carrot with one of the ones you sent me many years ago.
>> >>>> You're spot on about the carbon steel staying sharp. My Swiss Star
>> >>>> peeler has a carbon steel blade, too.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>> Oh, you still have those... yeah, they work good. I'm still using the
>> >>> same
>> >>> one for more than 40 years now.
>> >>
>> >> Funny, this thread made me go and take a good look at the peelers I
>> >> inherited from mom. There are two Ekcos in one of my two kitchen tool
>> >> drawers.
>> >>
>> >> They are older than I am and still going strong. I'm 47.
>> >
>> >they seem to work perfectly well, too, unless you get confused and use the
>> >toothed side. (not sure what that's for.) i could see that design with a
>> >cushiony rubber handle if i was peeling mountains of stuff, maybe.
>> >
>> >i don't know what the original poster's problem was.
>> >
>> >your pal,
>> >blake
>>
>> I created a fuss with my friend a few years ago by searching heaven
>> and earth for one of the old-style can openers with a point. You
>> stuck it in around the rim and did a wrist boogie around the can.
>>
>> I kept saying that they disappeared because they worked too well!
>>
>> No fuss...no electric....just a simple tool that worked!
>>
>> And it disappeared. A curse on mankind.
>
>I have mom's. She got it when she was in the Air Force.
>
>>
>> I actually found one in the boxes of stuff that I have accumulated
>> over the decades, but it was old and rusty - not too good.
>>
>> I cleaned it up as well I could and gave it to my friend as a
>> Christmas gift. Got a big laugh.
>
>Should clean up with a bit of acid and some steel wool. :-)
>Then oil it!

Forgot to say that the prong was funky and had bent on me more than
once. I used steel wool and oil!

They usually had a corkscrew, too. Marvelous things!

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

- T.S. Elliott, (from) "The Rock"


Not worth a save, though. Great for a laugh.

For my next act.......
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mad