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Why remove the BBC story on the banana blight? Anybody got something more informative than Joe's "I can't believe the BBC picked that one up."
www.corpwatch.org/article.php
eces.org/articles/000203.php
Joe may not be able to believe it, but he doesn't offer anything to the contrary, and I can't find anything to the contrary, either (google for 'banana blight hoax' and 'banana blight rumor' and 'Emile Frison hoax'). But I can find other links supporting it (although most of them appear in the same time-frame & are typically incestuous)
Finally, somebody did more and better research last fall on "Emile Frison" and decided he was real: blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaK...0698.html
www.corpwatch.org/article.php
eces.org/articles/000203.php
Joe may not be able to believe it, but he doesn't offer anything to the contrary, and I can't find anything to the contrary, either (google for 'banana blight hoax' and 'banana blight rumor' and 'Emile Frison hoax'). But I can find other links supporting it (although most of them appear in the same time-frame & are typically incestuous)
Finally, somebody did more and better research last fall on "Emile Frison" and decided he was real: blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaK...0698.html
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Re: Bananas
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 12:24 PMopps. all of this is in reference to a "Frankenbananas" tangent:
www.boingboing.net/2004/07/...ith_.html
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Re: Bananas
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 1:22 PMNo time to do the serious corporate untangling confirmation would require, but I find it awfully suspicious that this guy keeps popping up on boards and in pseudoscientific articles whipped up by Monsanto and Monsanso subsidaries/partnerships:
www.monsantoafrica.com/kuza/issue19.htm
www.whybiotech.com/index.asp
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Re: Bananas
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 1:25 PMCoconut yellowing disease is a problem too, and apparently cacao is also at risk.
No chocolate? No banana? No coconut? The banana split will go the way of the dodo!
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Re: Bananas
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 1:50 PMhey thanks! it was a code typo, there was a snopes pointer that inadvertently went the way of the dodo thanks to a missing </a> tag. -
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Fri, July 2, 2004 - 2:32 PMAha!. Okay. I'm fine now. I always wondered what happened to that banana horror-story.
Which is, in some ways, a pity its a myth. We need to smacked upside the head.
However, if we find some way to smack ourselves upside the head BEFORE we wipe out another major, that would be even better...
Xeni: why are you upside down?
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Re: Bananas
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 2:32 PMThe ice cream soda is on the endangered list. And the chocolate malted survives only in a few soda fountain habitats in the midwest.
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Re: Bananas
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 2:35 PMAn non-indigenous beverage has appeared on our shores; the avocado shake seen mostly in pho shops. It is so delicious that it may prove as invasive as the zebra mussel. -
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Re: Bananas
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 2:37 PMFortunately, the green-tea shakes--with giant tapioca beads at the bottom--are not catching on.
I was given a bottle of Moxie for Christmas, and I've been saving it....
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Mon, July 5, 2004 - 2:37 AMThat sounds horrid. My grandmother once made avocado ice cream. I still have nightmares about it. -
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Mon, July 5, 2004 - 10:31 AM"Ten Ren's Tea Time is a modern tea bar tucked away in New York City's Chinatown. Tea Time is best known for it's extensive offerings of Bubble Tea, a tea phenomenon introduced in the US from Taiwan that blends tea and milk with tapioca pearls. Other Tapioca tea offerings include Tapioca Fruit Tea, Tapioca Iced Tea Milk Shake, even Tapioca Hot Teas in hot ginger, almond, coconut and honeydew. In addition to Tapioca tea, Tea Time offers a selection of green, black, oolong teas."
www.teamuse.com/article_040603.html
www.gazette.net/200425/ent...2044-1.html
That's the place! (I go to the one in New York) My dad tried the green-tea potato-salad, and I tried the green-tea jello. They were, respectively, potato-salad that tasted like green tea, and jello that tasted like green tea.
Let me ask you something: when you think "party! party!", do you automatically think "green tea flavour!" ???
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Re: ; the avocado shake seen mostly in pho shops
Tue, July 6, 2004 - 5:06 PMOh, yeah -- them tapioca drink bars are all over some parts of San Francisco. Still haven't gotten around to trying any, myself. -
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Re: ; the avocado shake seen mostly in pho shops
Tue, July 6, 2004 - 5:54 PMBubble tea is kind of fun, but not a revelation to the tatse buds. But avocado shakes ... oooooooh, ooooooh, heaven!
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Re: Bananas
Thu, July 8, 2004 - 11:46 AMMalteds are available, with a little difficulty, in the SF Bay area. Ice cream sodas are not at all hard to find. I've heard of phosphates but never had a chance to try them. They are a Boston thing, aren't they? My family always makes sure to find a place that makes egg creams when we go to New York. Can't find them easily anywhere else. (Egg creams are made without eggs or cream. The cannonical egg cream is made with milk, seltzer water, and U-Bet's chocolate syrup.) I've been surprised to see Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Soda in various non-NYC locations. The west coast Noah's Bagels chain frequently has them, for example. Perhaps they are trying to be authentic, but I wish they'd put their authenticness into everything bagels instead of celery flavored soda. -
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Re: Bananas
Thu, July 8, 2004 - 12:14 PMSF is an oasis of culture. Try to find a proper ice cream soda in the hinterlands. It's a lost cause. Most kids today have never even heard of them.
I blame McDonalds. Soda is just soda and a "shake", well, it's a seaweed-thickened synthoglop in a paper cup.
I grew up on egg creams. Lou Reed has a swell egg cream song.
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