Re: "Circus Peanuts"
- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
- Subject: Re: "Circus Peanuts"
- From: D* M*
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:05:34 -0500 (CDT)
>Actually Tom named the 'Circus Peanuts' Anthurium for the smell of that
>atrocious candy that you buy in celephane bags at candy counters that is
>shaped like giant peanuts in their shells. This orange sherbet-colored candy
>has a ghastly foam texture with the sicky-sweet fake smell (and taste) of
>bananas (amyl acetate) that is used for cheap artifical banana flavoring.
Those things were my favorite "cheap thrill" as a child! However,
your description of them is quite correct.
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Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com