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Jude
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Posted: Wed 11 Nov , 2009 9:49 pm
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Due to this thread I just bought myself a yoghourt maker. Let the fun begin! :banana:

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Posted: Wed 11 Nov , 2009 10:22 pm
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Yay! Now you can make it just the way you want it! :)

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Posted: Wed 11 Nov , 2009 10:22 pm
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All right, are you Canadians adding even more letters to yogurt now? :suspicious: It's weird enough to read "yoghurt." Don't you have enough already? :P

(Okay, what does a yogurt maker look like anyway? I just added starter, i.e., plain yogurt, to milk and set it in a wrapped up jar in the closed oven, not warmed just closed to prevent drafts.)

ETA: :scratch: I think. I don't quite remember now for sure.

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Posted: Thu 12 Nov , 2009 1:43 pm
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LalaithUrwen wrote:
All right, are you Canadians adding even more letters to yogurt now? :suspicious: It's weird enough to read "yoghurt." Don't you have enough already? :P
Jude could compensate... by preparing it in a yurt!




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Jude
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Posted: Thu 12 Nov , 2009 3:13 pm
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Cheap fish sold to consumers as high-end product
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One in four fish samples misrepresented

Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service

Canadian consumers should think twice about paying a premium to eat high-end fish -- because it could actually be a cheap substitute, according to a new cross-country fish investigation spearheaded by high school students.

One-in-four fish samples taken from restaurants, supermarkets and fish markets across the country was mislabelled or misidentified as higher-priced or more desirable fish species, according to University of Guelph biology professor Robert Hanner, who released the results on Wednesday at an international conference in Mexico City.

This means white tuna or red snapper could actually be tilapia, and wild Pacific salmon could be farmed Atlantic salmon.

Fillets marketed as Mediterranean red mullet could really be spotted goatfish, and fish sold as Alaskan halibut might be Atlantic halibut -- considered endangered.

Hanner, along with the Toronto-based Bioscience Education Canada, recruited 166 high-school students from Ottawa, Richmond, B.C., Edmonton, Saskatoon, Guelph, Toronto, Riverview, N.B. and Halifax to collect samples from the frozen food aisle of large grocery stores, fish markets and restaurants in their communities.

"We were collecting lots of salmon and tuna," said Wennie Walker, a biology teacher at Richmond Secondary School, whose students ventured into shops on Granville Island in Vancouver and sushi restaurants in Richmond.

"We tried to go where people thought they would be buying expensive fish."

The 500 samples collected nationally, including by students from All Saints Catholic high school in Ottawa, were genetically tested at the Barcode for Life DNA database in Guelph, Ont., an international collaboration of scientists from 25 countries to genetically identify all the fish species in the world. Mislabelling was detected in all regions surveyed, said Hanner, co-ordinator for the Fish Barcode of Life initiative.

The findings of the national market survey are consistent with results published last year involving a smaller study of 96 fish samples from restaurants and markets in Toronto and New York City. Hanner said the national survey, designed to determine the percentage in Canada of fish sold as another species and to engage young people in science, was less tightly controlled, but the results point to a cross-country problem of consumer fraud.

This likely occurs during processing and distribution, not at the retail level or at the dockside with fishermen, he said.
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Posted: Mon 16 Nov , 2009 3:43 pm
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It's weird enough to read "yoghurt."
What you mean its proper spelling? :P

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Posted: Mon 16 Nov , 2009 3:49 pm
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Actually, we normally spell it "ywaughghourthe", but we normally tone it down on international messageboards to avoid traumatizing the unwary.

Just kidding

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Posted: Mon 16 Nov , 2009 5:13 pm
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Jude, I didn't know you spoke Welsh!

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The Welsh version has more "L"s in it.

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I bought the store brand of Special K once when they ran out of the real thing and thought it was really gross.


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Posted: Thu 19 Nov , 2009 9:47 pm
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Saltines, it has to be Premium for this girl. I have no idea why. I don't even eat a lot of soda crackers but when I do...maybe it's because my tomato soup has to be condensed Campbell's.

BBQ sauce has to be Sweet Baby Ray's. Busch's baked beans. Manwich sloppy joe sauce. Prego spaghetti sauce.

In my Mother's defense she worked full time and still managed to come home and cook dinner for my Dad, brothers, and myself. No it wasn't all made from scratch but it sure was tasty! :)

Maria, baked mac and cheese is divine you should try it :D

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Posted: Thu 19 Nov , 2009 10:01 pm
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I used to make amazing baked macaroni and cheese.

I stopped because it's not all that healthy. :D

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Posted: Fri 20 Nov , 2009 2:11 am
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I want a MacCoffee.

I WANT A MACCOFFEE.

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Posted: Fri 20 Nov , 2009 4:06 am
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Jude. Jude, Jude, Jude.

What's this: "not all that healthy" stuff?

Food is meant to be enjoyed, you know. It's "food" not "edible food like substances" that provide "nutrients".

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Mmmmm, nutrition delivery systems. :drool:


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Posted: Fri 20 Nov , 2009 2:10 pm
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Half my favorite nutritional delivery systems now hurt my abdomen a few hours after I eat them. It's kind of depressing to give up one's favorite foods.

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Posted: Fri 20 Nov , 2009 6:30 pm
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That would suck. :(

So, Jude, how's the ywaughghourthe making going? :poke:

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Whellwle, mye hfirste mbatsh didde notte solhidphye, butte ye flhævouwre whas meauste excellhente. Aye whille trye agayne.

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Ough whell, az ewe tsaye, ueoo kann trie uhghen.

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