----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:33 PM Subject: Re: Scouted: Cocoa Has More Antioxidants Than Red Wine, Tea
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:16:05PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, why reply to anyone? > > Just to clarify. Dan, this is insane. Apparently you weren't paying > attention, either. > > To recap, I wrote: > > > On the spectrum of tastes, they both taste quite similar, > > chocolatey. The instant variety is less rich and not as strong, > > especially if the Hershey's cocoa one is made with whole milk, but to > > call the instant a "completely different animal"? Ridiculous. > > I thought that was rather straightforward. Evidently not, since I got > the question: > > > You don't taste a distinct difference? > > How can someone ask that after what I wrote? It's a figure of speech. You have made a claim of an experience that is different from that experienced by others and had given it as a statement of fact. His statement is actually more reasonable than yours, becasue it is open to the possibility that different people have different differentiation between tastes. >This is absurd. I start by > asking a straightforward question about the phenol and flavonoid content > of instant hot chocolate to what was analyzed in the study cited. How do > we get to this nonsense? Because you brought up an experience that differed from the experience of others, yet you claimed universality. That's the sort of thing that tends to bring up contradictory posts, because most people know that they experience what they experience. > As to your question, I am always hopeful that there will be a discussion > that is not nonsense. Which there frequently is, but unfortunately not > this one. My perception is that when discussions start to be framed in terms other than the ones you think they should be, you label them nonsense and make derogatory comments of the ability of the other correspondent. Taking the first, straightforward, readings of those texts (your posts) one would arrive at the reasonable conclusion that the author of the texts (you) feel that those with whom he corresponds have inferior abilities. The reasons I'm fairly sure that you dissed Julia in a post a while ago (maybe 2 weeks or so) is that I was going to mention to her how amazed I was that she was so good at keeping discussions civil with folks the rest of us could not. My memory is that I read a post of yours, and thought to myself, well even Julia isn't perfect (sorry Julia). As for the final question in another post, it has been a bad week for me; with my mother-in-law being operated on for ovarian cancer and not doing well afterwards. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
