----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 5:43 PM Subject: Re: Alcohol and neuron function (was: The Mercies of The Vatican)
> The alcohol in Vanilla Extract is, at least in the USA, legal > requirement: FDA regulations require at least 35% alcohol, but there > does not appear to be an upper limit. I was told by my grandmother that > it was not unusual for women who wanted to get high (but didn't want to > drink the so-called hard stuff) to take a hit off the vanilla bottle > from time to time. I guess they got baked without having do to any > baking... I've heard stories about that too; a women being happy her alcoholic husband stopped drinking but wondered why he developed such a taste for vanilla. With kids, I was thinking more about comparing a sip of communion wine with eating home made vanilla ice cream. I know that 100 people can sip about 4 oz of wine for communion, but lets be generous and say 100 sip=8 oz. . So, one person sips .08 oz. At 12.5% alcohol, that's about 0.01 oz of pure alcohol. Then, lets look at a child's home made vanilla ice cream recipe I pulled off the web: <quote> Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream recipe for kids (or anyone wanting something quick and delicious!) Ingredients: 1/2 pint (250ml) single/light cream, small tin of condensed milk, 1-2 teaspoons vanilla extract (according to taste) <end quote> This makes about 1 pint or 16 oz. Lets say the child makes it with 2 teaspoons, and each of two kids gets one cup of ice cream each. That is one teaspoon of vanilla per child. There are three teaspoons in a tablespoon and two tablespoons in an oz: a teaspoon is 1/6 oz or .1666 oz. Multiple by 40%, and each child has 0.067 oz of pure alcohol, more than 6x the communion sip. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
