"George" > wrote in message
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> notbob wrote:
>> On 2006-09-20, George > wrote:
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>>>One place even has an anthracite coal fired oven.
>>
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>> Make one want run out and find a coal mine. There's some about 30
>> miles away, but they haven't been worked in over a hundred years.
>> It's mesquite lump or Kingsford around here.
>>
>> nb
>
> And we have a third generation German bakery in my town with an anthracite
> coal fired oven. Great smells each morning and they pride themselves in
> making quality stuff without using "space" ingredients. I mention it to
> people and they always report that they forgot what real bakery products
> taste like.

What's passed off as streudel these days is a friggin' joke. There should be
a law which designates the ONLY version that can be labeled as such, and
violators should be tossed into a tank of hungry sharks.