From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Feb 2 08:52:15 2000 X-Digest-Num: 352 Message-ID: <44114.352.1897.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 11:52:15 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: And the Eskimos have 100 words for 'Snow Cone' Robin Turner wrote: > What is a 'snow cone' by the way? Is it what we Brits call an ice cream > cone? No, ice cream is ice cream on both sides of the Pond. A snow cone consists of shaved ice chips infused with fruit-flavored sweet syrup, held in a cone-shaped paper cup. Good on hot days, provided you can take the intense sweetness. Kids like 'em. ko na citka loi pelxu snime --da -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)