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- From: ehel@quads.uchicago.edu (E. Helsinger)
- Subject: Re: Lunches and Snacks: what do you bring?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.173558.25037@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:35:58 GMT
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- This thread has evolved from the practical issue of lunch and snacks
- to the greater question of Food for Fun.
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- 1. Kendall Mint Cake -- made in the English Lake District, intense
- mint and refreshing, hard as a rock and keeps for years. Nothing like
- it for reviving the spirits -- the Black Bear that ripped open my
- daypack this summer actually slowed down when he came to the Kendall
- Mint Cake. I don't know whether he slowed down because it was hard,
- or because it was good.
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- 2. On a canoe trip, when weight matters less, we carry a "bakepacker",
- cook a biscuit, and top it with stewed apricots or other cooked dried
- fruit. It is, essentially, a fruit shortcake.
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- Prof. Elizabeth K. Helsinger, Dept. of English, U. of Chicago: 312-702-7990
- Howard M. Helsinger, Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL. 312-715-4730
- email: e-helsinger@uchicago.edu
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