Re: Grocery store aroids.

From: Susan Cooper coops at execpc.com> on 2001.09.07 at 03:14:48(7401) I didn't realize you moved- where are you now? Remember how I thanked you for the Sauromatum ? Well I still have some that haven't been planted this year.... You a BAD MAN! Maybe since they are pulling the konjac jelly candies off the market we can sell Typhonium Taffy! +More SUE-SAN At 08:42 PM 9/6/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Sue, look for yautia also. Mine is now a huge green Colocasia-like plant, >but more stocky and with an appealing satiny iridescent sheen to the >leaves. Pictures soon I hope. >OK, so any recipes for Sauromatum? Last year I only kept the large tubers >and chucked the scores of offsets as far as I could into neighborhood >property! Glad I moved outta there; but Elizabeth, New Jersey (pronounced >Ellie sabe, noo hersee) always had that particularly appealing aroma come >the hot days of summer. >Bonaventure > > > > >"Julius Boos" @mobot.org on 09/06/2001 06:32:48 PM > >Please respond to aroid-l@mobot.org > >Sent by: aroid-l@mobot.org > > >To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L >cc: > >Subject: Re: Grocery store aroids. > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Cooper, Susan L. >To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L >Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:56 PM >Subject: Grocery store aroids. > > >Dear Susan, > >The next time ask for 'malanga', three kinds USUALLY available, malanga >blanca, malanga lilac, and MAYBE malanga islenea, they will be Xan. >sagittifolium, X. violacium and Colocasia esculenta in that order. > >If the seet potato has purple skin, you are in for a treat, just peel and >boil in salted water, mash w/ a little butter, OR cut into halves and bake, >spread a little butter, it has quite a different color, flavor and texture >to the more common 'American' sweet potato w/ it`s orange skin. >See you soon, > >Julius > >>>Okay, here is a chance for everyone to get back at me for all my teasing >lately. >I convinced a coworker to escort me on a hike through a rough neighborhood >to a Spanish grocery (that's as close as I can get to an Indian grocery) to >find the secret Aroid patch. I found an interesting looking tuber, with no >sign to say what it was. Me being the shrinking violet that I am, was >afraid to ask anyone. So I selected the largest tuber, and headed to the >checkout. >When the clerk weighed it, "she said, hmm, lets see... Sweet Potato. >That's >big one!" > >Sometimes I think there is no hope for me! >Susan > >PS. My coworker just about had an accident laughing. He is still >laughing, >hours later.<< > > > > > > > > >

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