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On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:31:17 -0500, wrote:

-->On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:27:36 -0400, "Paco" > wrote:
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-->-->> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:58:52 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
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-->-->> -->On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:19:40 -0500, fired up random
-->-->> -->neurons and synapses to opine:
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-->-->> -->>On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:06:06 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
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-->-->> -->>wrote:
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-->-->> -->>-->On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:45:58 -0700 (PDT),
-->-->> -->>-->fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:
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-->-->> -->>-->>On Aug 31, 4:50 am, "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:
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-->-->> -->>-->>> But the red ones I only taste once. The green ones I can taste
-->-->> again,
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-->-->> -->>-->>> again, and again.
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-->-->> -->>-->>Amen, amen, amen! I really don't care for any of them no matter
-->-->> the
-->-->> -->>-->>color as for me I don't think they add anything to a recipe other
-->-->> than
-->-->> -->>-->>color.
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-->-->> -->>-->I can't stand those things no matter what color they are - if I
-->-->> want
-->-->> -->>-->red for color, I'll use pimento. Except in a salad. That's what
-->-->> -->>-->tomatoes are for :-)
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-->-->> -->>But pimento is a pepper
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-->-->> -->But it's not a *bell* pepper and pimentos are tasteless. Bell peppers
-->-->> -->are nasty.
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-->-->> -->Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
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-->-->> These sweet pimento peppers are also the familiar red stuffing found in
-->-->> prepared Spanish green olives. The pimento was originally cut into small
-->-->> pieces
-->-->> and hand stuffed into fresh green olives to complement the strong flavor
-->-->> of the
-->-->> olive. For ease of production pimento is often pureed and formed with the
-->-->> help
-->-->> of a natural gum (such as sodium alginate or guar gum) into strips. This
-->-->> allows
-->-->> the olive stuffing to be completed by a machine and increases the
-->-->> availability
-->-->> of the olives by lowering their cost of production. However, it also makes
-->-->> the
-->-->> olives less accessible to consumers with peanut allergies, as those
-->-->> individuals
-->-->> may have a cross-reaction to guar, an annual legume mostly produced in
-->-->> India.
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-->-->> I think a bell pepper would be acceptable.
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Sorry I thought I had... Wikpedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimento