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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:53:48 +0000 (UTC),
(Steve Pope) wrote:

> sf > wrote:
>
> >I haven't noticed a garlic flavor to tamari. It's just a weird soy.
> >If you're used to chinese style, you're not going to like japanese
> >style soy... or at least I don't.
>
> Yeah, I've been using tamari, and only tamari as pretty
> much the only soy sauce in the house for so many years, I've
> forgotten there are other styles.
>
> I also still have cognitive dissonance when "soy sauce" is
> abbreviated to just "soy".
>
It's the other way around here. Soy has always been just one word for
me and everyone I know. There is no reason to say "sauce". If we
mean soy "something else", then we'd specify what it is.

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