Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2010-01-14-19:26:29 Mark Rabiner: > I love Rice pudding about the same as I love Flan. A lot. > Its why I have cinnamon in the house. Ahh, cinnamon. I love cinnamon. Kathryn loves cinnamon. Kathryn found out about a year or two ago that she's allergic to cinnamon. She's very very sad about that. And you wouldn't believe how much stuff has cinnamon it it -- not just notionally cinnamon-flavored things. Most commercial mint flavorings (as in toothpaste and other stuff) include some cinnamon. Most brands of gin. "Refreshing" soaps and lotions (they add cinnamon for a little cool tingle). All sorts of tasty recipes and common culinary multi-spice premixes. I now stick a strip of orange gaffer's tape on products containing the c-word. It took about two years of frustration and research with multiple dentists and oral surgeons and allergists to figure out that a cinnamon allergy was the major culprit in that terrible splotchy red gum irritation. Nobody here had heard of it, but we found a paper someone in the UK had written on cinnamon allergies. Cinnamon gone: gums better, with the bonus of some heartburn going away! But the sadness of cinnamonlessness remains. I try only to make cinnamon toast when she's away, and open the windows afterward so as not to leave a delicious-smelling taunt in the air. Remember when nobody had heard of peanut allergies? I wonder if cinnamon is the next big thing. -Jeff