Hank Rogers wrote:

> dsi1 wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 11:49:16 AM UTC-10, GM wrote:
> >> dsi1 wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 10:53:26 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 3:45:13 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> >>>>> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 10:07:53 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>>>> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 2:56:44 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:00:39 PM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:47:50 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 11:40:18 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:16:14 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> I pity the poor fools that think they can judge a soy sauce by reading
> >>>>>>>>>>> a label instead of using their sense of taste .
> >>>>>>>>>>> I have had some terrible soy sauce. Mostly, it was some American
> >>>>>>>>>>> brands with cheesy Asian design motifs on the bottle to fool people on
> >>>>>>>>>>> the Mainland. The awful American brands were put out by people that
> >>>>>>>>>>> didn't grow up with the stuff, didn't care about it, and were only
> >>>>>>>>>>> interested in selling product. Aloha shoyu was created in Hawaii by
> >>>>>>>>>>> people that loved and respected shoyu and the process of shoyu
> >>>>>>>>>>> production.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Respected shoyu production? Do you have any idea how Aloha sauce is
> >>>>>>>>>> made? And how real soy sauce is made? Clearly not.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> My grandma used to have a shoyu factory although I don't know a thing about it.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Yes, I just concluded that.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Aloha shoyu was created after the war in order to fill the need for rapid production of the condiment. The rest is history.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Rapid, exactly.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> You think that making shoyu is rocket science - it is not. Making a rapid production hydrolyzed shoyu that is tasty and acceptable to people raised on a traditionally brewed shoyu might be, however. Please stick with blathering about things that you know about. You know nothing about Aloha shoyu except from stuff written on the internet by people that know nothing about Aloha shoyu.
> >>>>>>>> If all y'all love industrial soy sauce, enjoy! It's cheaper!
> >>>>>>> I love soy sauce alright but I don't select them by what other people on the internet say about it. That's kind of lame.
> >>>>>> Setting aside Bruce's antipathy toward hydrolyzed shoyu for the moment, why is it
> >>>>>> lame to take advice, or at least to consider it?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'd rather take advice from other people on the internet than randomly buy a soy sauce that
> >>>>>> was downright vile. I'd also rather take the advice and maybe get one that's really good.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>>>> Life is full of risks - buying a bottle of soy sauce is not really all that dangerous. I think that relying on other people to tell you what to think/taste/see is kind of lame.
> >>>> Not "relying on other people". I listen to advice and form my own opinion. Have
> >>>> you never taken advice? If not, you're as bad as Donald Trump.
> >>>>> I've bought all kinds of soy sauces and have learned a lot from it. Mostly, yoose guys have a murky, tainted, view of the product and are afraid of trying something new. That's kind of debilitating.
> >>>> I, too, have bought all kinds of soy sauce; some on the recommendation of posters
> >>>> here and some because the bottle looked... authentic.
> >>>>
> >>>> Why waste my money if I don't have to? Why taste even one drop of something
> >>>> that's vile?
> >>>>
> >>>> Incidentally, I ate a ton of hydrolyzed soy sauce when I was younger.. I like naturally
> >>>> brewed better, so I switched to that.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>> Why do anything if there's a chance it might turn out to be a slight bit unpleasant or cost you a little money? I sense much fear within you.
> >> People here could just about tolerate you if it wasn't for your personality...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best
> >> Greg
> > I'm a fully-grown, fully-realized, guy. What that means is that I don't care what other people think about me. All your little mind tricks, shaming, taunts, and racist baiting won't work on me. That's the breaks.
> >
> Aloha


Hank, are you playing a "mind trick" on us...????

<chuckle>

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Best
Greg