Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message
> news:h7rnl01hnle9asr806bai9v2gvo1i0jfb1@4ax.com...
>
>>On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:00:16 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom"
>>
>>>Before doing this, I washed the jar in hot soapy water, rinsed well,
>
> dried,
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>>>then sterilized the inside with an awamori-soaked paper towel (vodka
>
> might
>
>>>work just as well).
>>
>>If you hade vodka, why would you bothering with all this other
>>rigmarole?
>
>
> You failed to read me correctly. I said it was for my wife.
>
> Wives need all sorts of things that husbands don't, like oils in the
> bathtub, and manicures, and umeshu that has been sitting in your cupboard
> for 3 months.

I had confirmation of something like that a while ago when, hanging
around with a friend, she went into one of those grommet food stores and
began sampling balsamic vinegar (at $30+ for teeny-tiny bottles) with
the store owner. They were sounding like yer basic wine snobs: "early
spring, south side of the mountain, well-shaded plants." I, of course,
wanted to go into my best Eric Idle ("no, actually that's wee-wee), but
managed to restrain myself.

Dan