Re: No more toast?

"Nicholas D. Richards" <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:01:53 +0100
Newsgroups free.toast,alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove
Organization Beware of Red Hot Beaks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>,
Alan B <[email protected]>  on Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at
11:16:14 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 14/06/2024 11:09, vickiebee wrote:
>> Alan B wrote:
>> [..]
>>>
>>> My mother and (I think) her mother would have the occasional glass of
>>>  Wincarnis. I had a sip or two once and found it quite sweet and 
>>> generally disgusting. It contained meat extract in those days hence
>>> the 'carnis' in its name. I see it no longer contains meat so perhaps
>>> they should rename it!
>>>
>> My Gran and her sisters used to make the best Dandelion and Elderberry
>> wine, good for relaxing, or settling the stomach... and I want to say
>> Camomile wine... but the memory is dim.
>> v
>
>I used to like Dandelion and Burdock as a child but it was supplied by a 
>local 'pop' merchant. It's still available from the likes of Fentimans UK.
>
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion_and_burdock>
>
Fentiman seem to be the only maker who does not use artificial
sweeteners.  From the taste, although non-alcoholic, it has been through
some sort of fermentation process. Rather nice IMO.
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