Hi Ken,
One thing about Minties is that they don't have plain brown wrappers,
but white, red and green ones which are slightly waxy. One favourite
bit of sport is to attempt to tear the wrappers in such a way as to
make one long strip. Whenever I eat a Mintie, which is rare these days,
I do this almost automatically. Yes, it is very sad, I know. Especially
when the Person from Porlock is probably knocking on the door.
cheers,
Jill
On Monday, January 3, 2005, at 01:02 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> At 12:49 AM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
>
>> I'm glad to know that the Minto Review is the most prestigious
>> journal in
>> the US, even though I keep misreading it as the Minty Review. This
>> has
>> pleasant and very suckable associations for me.
>>
>> http://users.chariot.net.au/~dan/minties/about.html
>
> Very well, Alison, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to
> ship
> several cases of Minties in plain brown wrappers into the States for
> the
> Minty-deprived who live here. These little things sound as though they
> will have an effect upon us akin to the effect laudanum had upon
> Coleridge. "Kubla Cohen, a dream written under the influence of
> Minties."
>
> Ken
>
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>
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