On Dec 1, 9:03*pm, Bryan > wrote:
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> I don't find her physically attractive,

Not at all? None? Zero??!! Oh come on! Get real. You go on like the
only form of female attractiveness you can see is so far and above
whatever example someone puts in front of you that this example is
totally worthless and without merit. Typical Bryan black and white
thinking.


> nor have I liked any of the
> recipes I've heard her give on NPR (she's their main go-to recipe
> person),

Another example of Bryan black and white thinking. "Nor have I liked
*any*..."??!! Not even a little?

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>*The filling for your cherries is sublime. *Fake chocolate is totally unworthy as a
> *robe* for it.

First off, compound coating is not "fake chocolate". It's cocoa/
chocolate liqueur and NOT cocoa butter and that's all. The chocolate
in it's real, the fat is just not cocoa butter because cocoa butter
requires a lot more careful handling to set up firm and crisp like the
stuff we all think of as chocolate. The palm oil that they substitute
for the cocoa butter is not gross, and does not substantially detract
from the yummy of the chocolate content like you make it sound.
Artificial chocolate flavor is fake chocolate, not compound coating.

And second, I use real 100% dark chocolate to enrobe my Chocolate
Covered Cherries. Always have.


> On another subject, Angela gave us a little rosemary plant Christmas
> tree. *She is so sweet. *She also brought over dinner for Betsy from
> Trader Joe's. *It's the best tree ever, because when Christmas season
> is over, we can eat the tree. *Fresh rosemary is *so* much better than
> dried. *Oh, and I have a strawberry potted from our garden. *If you
> want it, let me know in the next few days and it's yours. *Otherwise
> I'll offer it to someone else. *Betsy's sister, Anna, brought pot
> roast over tonight, with sweet potatoes and marshmallows, and the
> ladies from the preschool sent her flowers. I just bet that the
> rosemary "tree" cost as much as a small live tree, but is so much
> "greener" *environmentally. *I hope that we can have a rosemary plant
> every year instead of a tree, as that is a nice present to planet too.

Cool, but no thanks. I hunted and killed a live scotch pine just like
I do every year. And soon it will be decorated with fake fruit, and I
will furiously worship at it's base to the ancient Druid gods to
please PLEASE return Life to the world!! And it works! Every year
Spring comes. I don't want to mess up a working system, yano? Not sure
it would work the same with eating a rosemary tree. ;-)

John Kuthe...