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Default Making a White Sauce

On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 3:09:15 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> On 10/25/2016 3:49 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 2:39:08 PM UTC-4, wrote:
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> >> Never had good sawmill gravy for breakfast?

> >
> > I can't speak for Graham, but I've never had any gravy for breakfast.
> > I'm not likely to start now; who needs those calories?
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >

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> Most recipes like that are from a time when farmers worked the land and
> factory workers put in 12 hour days and burned 12,000+ calories.
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>

That's true. My grandfather and his sons walked behind a plow for
years and all were slim. That is until the boys decided looking
at a mule's butt for 10-12 hours a day for 6 days a week wasn't for
them. After they went to the big city and got jobs they all put on
weight.