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Re: CHAT 28/31 or more flavors (was Re: to translate or not)

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 6:38
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Well, the avocado is technically a fruit... The Dutch make a liqueur out >of >them, called Advocaat. Seen it, never tried it. (I'm sorry, it's thick >and >yellow and looks like pus). The Indonesians put sugar on their avocados. >And they laughed at me when I told them Americans put milk and sugar on >bananas!
Uck.......sugar on avocados? Well.......Filipinos do have Jufran....which is like banana ketchup (it's even red too).
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> >I've heard of that garlic festival--- Oroville???
The only Garlic Festival I can think of that's pretty big (well decent), is the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, here in California (i live 30 minutes away, the town constantly smells like garlic around the fields). They even have garlic ice cream, and garlic wine!
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