Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:11:55 -0800
Reply-To: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
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From: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Subject: Re: What kind of crackers do you keep in your van?
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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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