George Shirley wrote:
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> I guess I'm not as diplomatic as you folk are. I question food gifts
> from people with whom I am not familiar, particular with their methods
> of cooking and canning. I've already got a compromised immune system, I
> don't need some one who is living in 1840 poisoning me. A few of them
> have gotten angry but most are willing to learn a "new" method of food
> preservation.

It's too bad all that smoke & salt we consumed in our life won't preserve us as well
as meat. And we'd need an dry, frozen environment. George, we all gotta move to
Antartica! I hear the growing season for everything but krill is real short.
Edrena