"JohnJohn" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:40:49 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>"sf" > wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:55:08 +0100, "Ophelia"
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>>>> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:04:09 +0300, Opinicus
>>>> > > wrote:
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>>>> >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:27:04 +0100, "Ophelia"
>>>> >> > wrote:
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>>>> >> >>>Conversely, tomato paste is a concentrated form of tomato sauce.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> >> Nope... sauce is seasoned, paste is just tomato.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I wondered when someone was going to catch that. In villages here in
>>>> >> when tomatoes have become dirt cheap in late summer you'll still see
>>>> >> houses whose slightly pitched roofs are completely covered with ripe
>>>> >> tomatoes laid out on plastic sheeting. The fruits are left there
>>>> >> until
>>>> >> most of the mosture has evaporated. I'm not sure what the finishing
>>>> >> steps are but I know they include mashing-up and salt. The resulting
>>>> >> tomato paste is some of the densest and most delicious you'll ever
>>>> >> find. Because it's salted it keeps better than the store-bought kind
>>>> >> but it's still more than we could ever use, hence the tubes.
>>>> >
>>>> > Catch what? It was a simple answer to someone who couldn't figure
>>>> > out
>>>> > that tomato paste is concentrated tomato.
>>>>
>>>> If I am the 'someone' to whom you refer, I asked a question! Remember?
>>>> And
>>>> as it happens, you were wrong.
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>>> I tried to put it into simple terms.
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>>Too simple. You were wrong. You think I don't know that tomato *paste* is
>>concentrated tomato. WHAT THE HELL ELSE COULD IT BE??? I have since
>>learned that the sauce in tins is not paste, but diluted/seasoned. Do you
>>wish to argue against that too, in which case you are arguing with others.
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> You're very patient.

Well, I'm not and I'm getting sick of people posting wrong things and then
having other people believe them!