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Copycat IHOP Pancake Recipe.

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vivapa...@aol.com

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Aug 2, 2015, 4:50:33 PM8/2/15
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Ingredients.

1-1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 egg, beaten
1-1/4 cups buttermilk
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/4 cup sugar

Procedure.

1. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
2. In a separate bowl, combine the egg and buttermilk. Add to the flour mixture, stirring only until smooth.
3. Blend in the melted butter and sugar.
4. Cook on a medium-hot lightly greased griddle, using about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. Drop the batter onto the griddle in 5-inch wide circles.
5. Cook until the pancakes are brown on one side and around the edges, then flip and brown the other side.

Serves 4.

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Aug 2, 2015, 9:53:26 PM8/2/15
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On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 3:50:33 PM UTC-5, vivapa...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Ingredients.
>
> 1-1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
> 1 teaspoon baking powder
> 1 teaspoon baking soda
> Pinch of salt
> 1 egg, beaten
> 1-1/4 cups buttermilk
> 2 tablespoons butter, melted
> 1/4 cup sugar
>
This looks pretty much like the standard recipe
that most people use when they want buttermilk pancakes.
>
> 5. Cook until the pancakes are brown on one side and around the edges, then flip and brown the other side.
>
>
The way I was taught years and years ago when it's time to
flip them is wait until you start seeing bubbles appear
the uncooked side; usually those bubbles will also burst.
No having to peek to see if they are brown and needing to
be turned. Works every time for me.

John Kuthe

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Aug 2, 2015, 10:14:13 PM8/2/15
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Bryanlearned toi guage pamncakes by the bubbling becase we got some
black food color and made pancakes so black they looked like little
manhole covers!

John Kuthe...

vivapa...@aol.com

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Aug 3, 2015, 8:16:10 AM8/3/15
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The sugar part was a new one on me. Or at least that much of it.

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Aug 3, 2015, 8:40:35 AM8/3/15
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On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 7:16:10 AM UTC-5, vivapa...@aol.com wrote:
>
> On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 6:53:26 PM UTC-7, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 3:50:33 PM UTC-5, vivapa...@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Ingredients.
> > >
> > > 1/4 cup sugar
> > >
> > This looks pretty much like the standard recipe
> > that most people use when they want buttermilk pancakes.
> > >
>
> The sugar part was a new one on me. Or at least that much of it.
>
>
It does seem to be a bit much; 2 tablespoons is what is
generally used. I guess IHOP hopes to limit the amount
of syrup a patron might use.

:-)

Cindy Hamilton

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Aug 3, 2015, 9:27:36 AM8/3/15
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Emoticon noted. However:

1. I imagine IHOP customers use enough syrup to make their pancakes
satisfactorily wet.

2. How expensive can artificially flavored corn syrup be, when they
probably buy it by the ton?

;)

Cindy Hamilton

Dave Smith

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Aug 3, 2015, 9:28:24 AM8/3/15
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On 2015-08-02 9:53 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 3:50:33 PM UTC-5, vivapa...@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Ingredients.
>>
>> 1-1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
>> 1 teaspoon baking powder
>> 1 teaspoon baking soda
>> Pinch of salt
>> 1 egg, beaten
>> 1-1/4 cups buttermilk
>> 2 tablespoons butter, melted
>> 1/4 cup sugar
>>
> This looks pretty much like the standard recipe
> that most people use when they want buttermilk pancakes.


Other than the 1/4 cup of sugar.
>>
>> 5. Cook until the pancakes are brown on one side and around the edges, then flip and brown the other side.
>>
>>
> The way I was taught years and years ago when it's time to
> flip them is wait until you start seeing bubbles appear
> the uncooked side; usually those bubbles will also burst.
> No having to peek to see if they are brown and needing to
> be turned. Works every time for me.

I wait for the bubbles to burst.
>

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Aug 3, 2015, 10:23:55 AM8/3/15
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They probably have a tanker truck of 'syrup' sitting
at the back of their restaurant.

;-)

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Aug 3, 2015, 10:27:03 AM8/3/15
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And they're ever so slightly dry around the edges;
just barely.

Dave Smith

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Aug 3, 2015, 10:52:48 AM8/3/15
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On 2015-08-03 9:27 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> Emoticon noted. However:
>
> 1. I imagine IHOP customers use enough syrup to make their pancakes
> satisfactorily wet.
>
> 2. How expensive can artificially flavored corn syrup be, when they
> probably buy it by the ton?

I have had so many bad experiences with pancake restaurant pancakes that
I don't bother with them anymore. They are invariably a major
disappointment. Even real maple syrup could not salvage them.


Gary

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Aug 3, 2015, 11:36:11 AM8/3/15
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Yep... at first the bubbles appear and break but they fill in. As soon
as they stop filling in the hole, pancake is ready to turn. A nice
golden brown side every time.

sf

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Aug 3, 2015, 11:45:39 AM8/3/15
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You've had some bad luck. I prefer restaurant pancakes. I like thick
and fluffy vs the thin ones I usually end up making at home. Used a
different recipe the last time I attempted and they were pretty darned
good. Swiped it from the internet and didn't save it, so that
probably won't happen again. Pancakes are one of those things I'd
rather be served than make myself anyway - so it's no loss AFAIC.

Can't speak to IHOP. We used to go there after the bars closed back
in our college days - then didn't step foot in one for decades. I
heard that kids ate free for whatever reason a few years ago, so we
took a grandchild there for breakfast. Either IHOP has changed or we
have because it was not an enjoyable meal and we haven't been back
since.

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sf

notbob

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Aug 3, 2015, 12:28:54 PM8/3/15
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On 2015-08-03, Dave Smith <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I have had so many bad experiences with pancake restaurant pancakes that
> I don't bother with them anymore. They are invariably a major
> disappointment. Even real maple syrup could not salvage them.

I find most pancakes are made with regular flour. That is, flour not
made from soft Winter wheat, but hard Summer wheat. Only White Lily
and Martha White flours are soft Winter wheat. These make light airy
buttermilk pancakes, as opposed to the heavy cake-like pancakes made
from other flours (gold medal, pillsbury, Krusteaz, etc).

Problem is, one can only get Wht Lily and Martha Wht East of the
Mississippi. YOu can mail order these soft wheat flours from
Smuckers, but it's gotta be a min order of two 5 lb bags, plus
shipping.

I did such an order and got my 2 bags full, but biscuits jes don't
work at 8K ft elev. B-milk pancakes do, tho. I made pancakes I'd
been searching for for over 40 yrs. Light, fluffy, diaphanous,
pancakes. To die for! Prob is, I'm not a big pancake eater. ;)

nb

Sal Paradise

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Aug 3, 2015, 2:26:13 PM8/3/15
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On 8/3/2015 11:27 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
Running for the White House, Jeb Bush portrays himself as a man who has
"worked his tail off" to get ahead in life. But in his business
dealings—which involved such diverse fields as real estate, credit card
services, and water pumps—the candidate seemed to benefit from his
father's political power and worked with people who turned out to be
criminals, the Washington Post reports. Bush's business outlook in his
early years was "a little bit of damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,"
says a professor who wrote about him. "His judgment on who to associate
with is lacking." Unlike his father and brother George, who each made
fortunes as young men, Jeb jumped from one business venture to another,
at times with unsavory characters.

Sal Paradise

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Aug 3, 2015, 2:30:09 PM8/3/15
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On 8/4/2015 1:37 AM, Gary wrote:
Fourteen hundred years ago Islam gave women rights; rights that could
not have been imagined by European counterparts. Bold words! Words
that have been spoken repeatedly, especially in the last two or three
decades by Muslim converts, and Islamic writers, academics and educators
across the globe. Women’s rights, responsibilities, and choices have
been the subject of books, articles, essays, and lectures. Sadly
however, convincing the world that Muslim women are not oppressed by
Islam is a message that is just not getting through. Media headlines
scream oppression and the words Muslim, women, and oppression seem to
have become inextricably linked.

No matter what Muslim women do or say to try to convince the world
otherwise, words like hijab, burka, polygamy, and Sharia seem to do
little but convince people that Islam oppresses women. Even educated,
articulate women fulfilling the modest conditions of hijab can do little
to dispel the myths. Women who conduct themselves with decorum and
grace and function effortlessly in the modern world have their
achievements and successes celebrated. However, if a woman wears a
scarf, covers her hair or puts her religion above worldly pursuits she
is immediately labelled oppressed. One wonders if this is the case for
women of other religious persuasions.

Sal Paradise

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TRS

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TRS

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Sal Paradise

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Nancy2

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Aug 3, 2015, 2:44:40 PM8/3/15
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Nb, did youcheck out King Arthur Flour? They might have a better deal
on those two soft winter wheat flours.

N.

Sal Paradise

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DreadfulBitch

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Aug 3, 2015, 5:44:39 PM8/3/15
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But who tastes their pancakes before adding syrup? I know I sure don't.


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I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.

sf

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On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:44:35 -0500, DreadfulBitch
<notha...@nobodyishome.com> wrote:

> On 8/3/2015 7:40 AM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> > On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 7:16:10 AM UTC-5, vivapa...@aol.com wrote:
>
> > It does seem to be a bit much; 2 tablespoons is what is
> > generally used. I guess IHOP hopes to limit the amount
> > of syrup a patron might use.
>
> But who tastes their pancakes before adding syrup? I know I sure don't.

Me either. Pancakes are a convenient syrup delivery vehicle. In any
case, the recipe didn't pretend to be the real thing. It was a
"copycat" and you know as well as I do that copycat recipes often
aren't even close to the real thing.

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sf

Michelle

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Aug 4, 2015, 7:52:31 AM8/4/15
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On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 4:44:39 PM UTC-5, DreadfulBitch wrote:
> On 8/3/2015 7:40 AM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> > On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 7:16:10 AM UTC-5, vivapa...@aol.com wrote:
> > It does seem to be a bit much; 2 tablespoons is what is
> > generally used. I guess IHOP hopes to limit the amount
> > of syrup a patron might use.
> But who tastes their pancakes before adding syrup? I know I sure don't.
> --
> DreadfulBitch

Me! My grandma used to make pancakes for lunch/dinner sometimes - but
she didn't use syrup then. Syrup was for morning pancakes only. Dinner
pancakes just got butter. (I got to use syrup, if I wanted. She just
didn't use it herself.) I got in the habit of eating a few bites
of pancake with just butter before adding the syrup.

Her pancakes didn't use any sugar or buttermilk. I still make them
her way most of the time, since that's the way pancakes should taste
to me.

Michelle

Nancy Young

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Aug 4, 2015, 9:15:06 AM8/4/15
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On 8/3/2015 8:38 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:44:35 -0500, DreadfulBitch
> <notha...@nobodyishome.com> wrote:

>> But who tastes their pancakes before adding syrup? I know I sure don't.
>
> Me either. Pancakes are a convenient syrup delivery vehicle.

Really, except at home, the syrup is real. I assume what
I get at a breakfast chain is not expensive stuff.

nancy

Ophelia

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"Michelle" <mcmo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Share your recipe, Michelle?



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notbob

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On 2015-08-03, Nancy2 <ellor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nb, did youcheck out King Arthur Flour? They might have a better deal
> on those two soft winter wheat flours.

Thnx for the tip.

Soft flours from KA are a bit more pricey than Smuckers, but I can buy
less than 10 lbs. Shipping seems about the same. I'll not do it cuz,
as I sed, I'm not a big pancake/waffle fan (what's with this
waffle/chicken craze?). Currently, I use Gold Medal Organic flour
for all my baking needs.

Besides, KA has little-to-no info on their flours. They claim "no chemicals
added", but are strangely silent on whether or not they are using GMO
wheat or heavily sprayed (pest/herb-icides) wheat. BTST, neither are
White Lily or Martha White 'fessing to any real facts. That's why I
now use organic flour.

nb

Dave Smith

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Aug 4, 2015, 11:18:59 AM8/4/15
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On 2015-08-04 9:14 AM, Nancy Young wrote:

>>> But who tastes their pancakes before adding syrup? I know I sure don't.
>>
>> Me either. Pancakes are a convenient syrup delivery vehicle.
>
> Really, except at home, the syrup is real. I assume what
> I get at a breakfast chain is not expensive stuff.


My bad experiences with pancake specialty restaurants is not just the
low quality syrup. The pancakes themselves are horrible. Pancakes are
easy enough to make.... flour, salt, baking powder, a little sugar, some
eggs, milk and oil. It takes about a minute to whip up a batch. These
guys seem to want to dumb it down to reduce costs and so that the
minimum wage staff can't screw them up too badly.

sf

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Aug 4, 2015, 2:06:13 PM8/4/15
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On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:14:59 -0400, Nancy Young <replyto@inemail>
wrote:
Honestly, I don't eat pancakes "out" enough for it to matter. I only
use real maple syrup at home and can tell the difference between that
and Mrs. Butterworths, but whatever it is they serve at Denny's is not
a deal breaker because it's maple flavored enough for me that I don't
mind if it's just maple flavored syrup.

BTW: I found the pancake recipe I spoke about in another post. I cut
it in half and the amount was perfect.
http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/classic-buttermilk-pancakes.aspx


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sf

Michelle

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Aug 4, 2015, 3:09:10 PM8/4/15
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2 Cups flour
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 scant Cups Milk
2 Eggs, separated

Whisk the dry ingredients together. Add the milk and egg yolks,
stir just until mixed. Beat the egg whites until stiff, fold into
batter. Cook in the usual manner.

Separating the eggs gives you a light, fluffy, thick pancake.

Ophelia

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"Michelle" <mcmo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Thank you:) Is that whole milk?



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Nancy Young

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I never order pancakes out. I order a waffle if I want something
like that and hope for a good one. I generally get acceptable.
You'd think breakfast places would get breakfast foods right.

nancy


Japhy Ryder

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On 8/5/2015 5:31 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
I have come to the conclusion that RELATIVELY speaking, Islam makes more
sense. Of course, I don't really like either and have no respect for
them. but still, its amusing when Christians mock Islam. (btw, we are
leaving politics out of this. I know the Islamic world is screwed up but
I am talking about the central ideas of the religions, not the
sociopolitical aspect).

Christianity in general is just a strange and illogical concept. God's
only son sacrificed himself for our sins? lowut? God made us. He created
us with this sin. If we are all sinners, its because God himself made us
like that. The fact that he then has to send his son down here for us so
we can repent, believe in him and go to heaven is ridiculous.

Thats not a sacrifice. Thats a threat. Blackmail of sorts. It would be
like me kidnapping someone, putting them in a room with poisinous gas
and then sending my kid in there to resxue them. And when they come out,
I tell them my kid died to rescue them so worship him because I
sacrificed my son for them. EXCEPT I PUT THEM THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE
wtffffffffffffffffff. The whole concept if flawed.

The only way to salvation is through Christ. Well cool except humans
have existed for thousands of years before that. Apart from being short
sighted, its a silly idea because if all humans are sinners, who died
for the ones before Christ. And if they are judged differently, then why
should any other human after Christ be judged on their belief in an
event not clearly documented about a person whose life is a mystery.
Makes no sense.

Oh and gays are bad. Cool story bros.

Japhy Ryder

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Japhy Ryder

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Japhy Ryder

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On 8/4/2015 10:38 AM, sf wrote:
ohn Caylor of www.insider-magazine.com reports that a well-placed source
within the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation
has revealed Governor Jeb Bush ordered the destruction and shredding of
public records and documents in violation of Florida law. The department
maintains oversight and approval of state gaming licensees, slot
machines, dog and horse tracks, and jai-alai. In addition, the state
government source revealed that Jeb Bush has replaced key members of the
Governor's Staff in Tallahassee with personnel from Texas who are
overseeing the destruction of state documents. An FBI source has
confirmed the destruction of public records by Jeb Bush may be in
response to the ongoing criminal proceedings against GOP lobbyist Jack
Abramoff and the Federal investigation of the 2001 gangland murder in
Miami of Sun Cruz casino boat owner Gus Boulis.

Dave Smith

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That is what gets me. They specialize in pancakes. They should be good.
They charge enough for them. Give people real syrup. It is little
wonder that so many pancake specialty restaurants go belly up.

Japhy Ryder

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On 8/5/2015 4:06 AM, sf wrote:
Barbara J. Llorente is a FRAUD!
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Barbara J Llorente 71 Cerritos Ave San Francisco, CA 94127.
Age 65 (Born 1950) (415) 239-7248. Background Check - Available. Record
ID: 47846596.

Your ass has more mass than Jupiter!

No one cares about you.

Get OUT!


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Michelle

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It's whatever is in the fridge - usually 2%.

Ophelia

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"Michelle" <mcmo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks very much:)))

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TRS

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On 8/5/2015 10:14 PM, Michelle wrote:
I have, on at least three prior occasions, written posts that delve into
the “alleged” lurid past of one of our former presidents, George Herbert
Walker Bush (GHWB), the current but ailing patriarch of the Bush Family
Dynasty – I refer to them as the Bush Family Crime Syndicate, certainly
not in terms of endearment – but rather more like the Mafia Godfather
who prepares his sons to take over the family business upon his death.
This particular post references an article by Stew Webb, a contributor
of Veterans Today.

In his life-time, George H. W. Bush (GHWB) has controlled every
clandestine (hidden from view) and secret organization/operation within
the arsenal of the United States government as either 1) Director of the
CIA, 2) Vice President to Ronald Reagan (who was an unwitting puppet to
the Bush controlled cabal – GHWB secretly gave Reagan poisons that
hastened his fall into Alzheimer’s Disease and evidence suggests he
helped plan Reagan’ attempted assassination by John Hinckley, whose
family were close friends of the Bush family – a coincidence?) and 3)
ultimately as President of the United States before Bill Clinton took
office.
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