Re: The greatest topic for RASFF ever...

In article <nZidnSmnUMve_EHanZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Kip Williams  <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Karl Johanson wrote:
>> The wikipedia entry (which uses the "Oxford Companion to Food" as a
>> reference) also mentions a "red velvet cake", which I'd never heard
>> of before. Not sure I'd like beets in my cake...
>
>But that recipe cost a thousand dollars!
>
>Or something like that. I don't remember if there was an absolutely 
>canonical amount in the urban legend

Two-fifty, in alt.folklore.urban.  But
<http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp>
lists the "Red
Velvet Cake" version as being $350, though.

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]