Oh, buoy! A Dialect!
Jean-Joseph Cote
jjcote at juno.com
Mon Jul 10 00:00:41 EDT 2000
Elliott asks:
>> JJ: I was under the impression that honey remained in fine
>> condition for an essentially indefinite length of time (or at
>> least for thousands of years).
>What's the story here? Has someone dug up ancient Egyptian
>honey still edible?
Precisely. Or that's my understanding, at least. Could be baloney, I
suppose. Did somebody actually eat it? Don't know, but I've heard that
some Soviet archaeologists have dined on mammoth.
Jean-Joseph (who is pleased that the honey definition is evidence that
we're seeing Mr. Dominus again -- us hyphenated guys have to stick
together!)
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