TRUE.. lol

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Joseph  Fortino
fortino1@onebox.com - email

---- "joseph Trussell" <joetruss@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> "
>
> :)
>
>
> --
> 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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