On 5/25/2014 5:28 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 2014-05-25 6:05 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>>> On 5/25/2014 4:29 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On 5/25/2014 5:00 PM, pure kona wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 25 May 2014 11:03:29 -0500, barbie gee >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 24 May 2014, Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They're Mormons, so no coffee gadgets.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mormons don't drink coffee?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What about tea? There's lots of tea gadgets.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a couple of coffee customers in Utah. I always wonder but
>>>>>> would never dare ask.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> aloha,
>>>>>> Cea
>>>>>>
>>>>> Not all the inhabitants of Utah are Mormons and not all Mormons live in
>>>>> Utah. My grandmother was a Mormon and her biggest problem was during
>>>>> WWII
>>>>> in Britain when she could not buy a horrible concoction called
>>>>> Postum. She
>>>>> used to drink cocoa and worried about that being allowed. I was too
>>>>> young
>>>>> to tell her that cocoa contains stimulants and that's perhaps as well.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh my but I remember Postum. It was a syrup you mixed with hot
>>>> water. We
>>>> were served it mixed with milk. It was pretty nasty. Tasted like
>>>> burned
>>>> wheat bread.
>>>
>>> Not wher I grew up. It was granules and it came in a jar. You mixed it
>>> with warm water or warm milk.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I remember it as a powder too.
>>
>
> Some people poured it over pancakes in place of maple syrup. It was pretty
> sweet.
>
>
I think you may be confusing Postum with something else, perhaps sorghum?

http://postum.com/

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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