"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sat 26 Mar 2005 11:33:09p, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>> On Sat 26 Mar 2005 10:40:19p, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>> Ruddell wrote:
>>>>>> In .com> Sheldon
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carol In WI wrote:
>>>>>>>> I've come across recipes to make your own cappacino's, etc, but
>>>>>>>> they taste cheap, I'd like to be able to come closer to the
>>>>>>>> stuff you buy in the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> stores. Any suggestions? Thanks, Carol In WI
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.manhattanspecial.com/movie.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well I'll be darned. Amazing...is it good or just cool?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think they knew what "cool" was 100 years ago. Except
>>>>> maybe for a chilled coffee drink
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>> Chilled coffee drinks probably were too common then, either.
>>>
>>> True. Ice had to be hauled up the river packed in sawdust. Room
>>> temp, more like.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> I know my grandmother in MS had an ice box before 1910, but I doubt
>> they chipped away at the block of ice for beverages. It was much
>> important to keep the cream and milk cool.
>
> True, Wayne. Every time I think about someone chopping at a block of ice
> with an ice pick I think of an early Nichole Kidman film - Dead Calm.
> Chip
> at the ice to make lemonade and add something to knock out the madman -
> Billy Zane. Eeek!
>
> I don't frequent those coffee house places but that Starbuck's bottled
> Frappuchino is pretty good for a quick cold on-the-run coffee thing.
>
> Jill
>
BJ's has them $1 (maybe $1.50???) off until April 9 with their coupon which
you can pick up at the door.
Dee