Re: The greatest topic for RASFF ever...

In article <frhsnc$qe8$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Tim McDaniel <tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <nZidnSmnUMve_EHanZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>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.

In any case, the red color is from commercially available food
coloring.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]