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Terry Pulliam Burd said:

Beets, not money, is the root of all evil, you ask me. The MIL used

to

Quoted message said:

regularly serve beets and I think she just did it to p*ss me off. And
the most evil beet dish of all is borscht.

I've had borscht. Once. I hate beets, too, but a good friend made the
borscht, and I'd rather eat something I hate than insult a good friend.
It was... not bad. I ate the entire pint. But I didn't ask her for
the recipe.

June

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I've had borscht. Once. I hate beets, too, but a good friend made the
borscht, and I'd rather eat something I hate than insult a good friend.

Not me. Friends don't let friends eat dreck.
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In article <[email hidden]>, Terry Pulliam

Burd said:

Beets, not money, is the root of all evil, you ask me. The MIL used to
regularly serve beets and I think she just did it to p*ss me off. And
the most evil beet dish of all is borscht. She used to do a double
whammy at Christmas: borscht and lutefisk <shudder> How's that for
cultural confusion?

Gack! I'm picturing the beet juice mingling with whatever white sauce
accompanied the lutefisk, making it magenta pink. Barf.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Arizona vacation pics added 3-24-05.
"I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.