Cheddar Goldfish.  Everywhere.  Glove box, under seats, map pocket...

Joe T.
Denver, CO
'85 GL 'bertha'

----Original Message Follows----
From: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Reply-To: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: What kind of crackers do you keep in your van?
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:58:13 -0800

none, but my oldest little girl 1.5 year old like chips and these
things migrate all over the place. what can i say shes a " snacker "

:)

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Joseph  Fortino
fortino1@onebox.com - email

----         Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA> wrote:
 > I like Stoned Wheat Thins. I also like Graham Crackers, especially
 > after
 > reading about Sylvester Graham, perhaps the first of a long line of
 > food
 > ayatollahs.
 >
 >
 > :)
 >
 > Alistair
 >
 >
 > Sylvester Graham was born in 1794, probably the 17th child of a 70
 > year old
 > father who was a minister of the gospel. At age two, Sylvester was
 > an orphan
 > and a ward of charity. We don't know much about what happened to him
 > until
 > at age 32, he showed up and enrolled at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
 > There he argued with everyone who would stay around long enough to
 > listen to
 > him and gave long speeches to disrupt many of his classes. He was kicked
 > out
 > of Amherst and had a nervous breakdown or his nervous breakdown caused
 > him
 > to be kicked out of Amherst.
 >
 > His nurse, Miss Sara Eads, took care of him and as a reward for bringing
 > him
 > back to health, he married her. She soon became pregnant and he had
 > to
 > support a family, but the only skill he had was his big mouth, so he
 > went to
 > the Presbyterian Church and begged them to make him a minister. They
 > ordained him, even though he had no formal education. He was such a
 > convincing speaker, they sent him to Newark, New Jersey, where he became
 > famous as a fire-breathing minister who warned about the dangers of
 > alcohol
 > and became known as the "suppressor of the Use of Ardent Spirits."
 > A major
 > problem was that while he was preaching the evils of alcohol, his wife,
 > Sara, was tippling, and not always privately.
 >
 > While on a visit to Philadelphia, he met members of the Young Bible
 > Christian Church. They preached abstinence from meat as well as alcohol.
 > And
 > Sylvester Graham became an ardent vegetarian. He became convinced that
 > God
 > did not want people to kill animals. He became very interested in health
 > and
 > the leading killer in 1830 in the United States was dyspepsia, which
 > means
 > an upset stomach. Doctors felt that people died because they had
unhealthy
 > bowels. He felt that bowel problems were caused by lack of bulk in
 > the diet
 > and every Sunday, from his pulpit, he screamed about the benefit of
 > bran. He
 > felt that God did not want people to split the wheat kernel.
 >
 > In 1830 nobody knew that 100% of the B vitamins, almost all the minerals
 > and
 > phytochemicals are in the germ that is removed when a miller makes
 > white
 > flour. He was truly a prophet, way ahead of this time. He became one
 > of the
 > most popular lecturers and screamed about the dangers of alcohol, white
 > flour, gluttony, meat. He advocated bathing, which upset many of his
 > fellow
 > Americans because they took baths once a year, but only if they needed
 > one.
 > He stated that lewdness, excess sex and eating chicken caused cholera.
 > To
 > combat white flour, he created the Graham cracker, coarsely ground
 > wheat
 > that was bathed in molasses and cooked before it could turn rancid.
 >
 > Sylvester Graham was treated by his countrymen as either a nut or a
 > religious man. But he preached against the dangers of alcohol, white
 > flour,
 > meat, gluttony, obesity and body odor. You may not agree with some
 > of his
 > views, but on the subject of flour...................
 >

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