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"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:

> Don wrote:
>
>> Leeks are a popular vegetable over the pond and have always had an
>> impact on Northern cooking. It's a simple vegetable of the onion
>> family, but doesn't 'melt' away into a dish as onions do.
>
> Huh? I think leeks "melt" into a dish MUCH more easily than onions. Maybe
> I'm getting the special easy-melt leeks.
>
> Bob
>
I've often seen a running leek but never a melting one, Bob. Imagine
Cock O' Leekie soup if you will, if the leeks melted away. You know
what you'd be left holding ;-)

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Don