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Default Orange rind vs. orange extract?

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:25:38 -0500, Sqwertz >
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>On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:58:53 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> I don't order
>> spring rolls very often (they're not Chinese restaurant fare, usually
>> Thai) but even those were filled mostly with cabbage.

>
>Spring rolls are fried and usually contain smaller amounts of cabbage
>as well as vermicelli and pork or shrimp. Summer rolls are not fried
>and contain primarily soft lettuce, vermicelli, and herbs (+ tofu,
>pork, shrimp) wrapped in tapioca/rice papers. Cabbage is to hard to
>roll up inside the fragile summer roll skins.
>
>Too many people are confusing SPRING rolls with SUMMER rolls. The
>proper term for those fresh rolls are SUMMER ROLLS. But the incorrect
>term has slowly been going viral among the uninformed.
>
>Hmmm, summer rolls sounds good right now... I suck at rolling them
>but they still taste the same!
>> Today most
>> Chinese restaurants order as many prepared foods as they can

>
>Blah.. blah...blah. Save the bullshit for your pre-fab food
>grandkids. Maybe there in your Podunk Corner they cook foodservice
>crap, but 97% of Chinese restaurants cook pretty much from scratch
>with the obvious exceptions of wrappers and some sauces.
>
>-sw