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gtr

On 2012-08-25 19:36:30 +0000, said:

> All this talk about the 'wonders' of pickle juice sounds like the old
> 'Jogging in a Jug' hype of the '90's.

I've noticed an uptick in the volume and display of "drinking vinegars"
at Asian markets. First the Korean, then the Japanese. These are, as
far as I can tell, fruit juice flavored vinegar. One puts some in a
glass with water, or soda water or I suppose you can use it to doctor
drinks like shochu, with oolong tea and who knows what.

My first experience with vinegared cocktails was a Thai joint in
Portland. And then last fall saw something in the NYTimes about
vinegar cocktails.

We got a jug of blackberry a few months ago, as the wife is crazy about
berries (we grow a bunch too), and thought it might be a good
replacement for vimto and other soda beverages that she uses in place
of wine/cocktails due to some medical difficulties. She wasn't so
impressed. But then a month or so later she tried again with less
vinegar and was really delighted.

What's odd is, it tastes fine, but if you smell it, it smells like
vinegar which is a bit off-putting.

Last week I did a *massive* sort-out of accrued papers, bills, letters,
shards of dead manuscripts, invitations, receipts, playbills, etc. In
among all this muck I found a pamphlet called "Vinegar Can do What??"
It's just a 51-page pimp job for a book called "The Kitchen Table Book"
by "the editors of FC&A Medical Publishing".

There is apparently nothing that vinegar can't do: stop war, cure all
diseases, reverse aging, and provide endless erections all for only $30
if I act three months ago.