"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote:

>> That's funny, google on it, I didn't know what was going to
>> occur when I said I bought some halvah. Short answer, it's
>> a sesame candy.

> Duh. Google. ;-)

Oh no! That's not how I meant it at all. The thread just went
on forever and people had different ideas of what halvah was.
I couldn't answer your question definitively, I just had halvah from
the grocery store.

> This sounds like it'd make an excellent "trail" food and be a nice
> supplement to pemmican or jerky:

I happen to like it, YMMV.

nancy