Re: [gourds] Gourd shell composition

hdqrs@worldnet.att.net (gourds@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:16:31 -0600

At 03:07 AM 1/15/98 +0000, John K. Stacy wrote:
>hdqrs@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
><snip>
>> This is the very reason that people with very
>> small pockets (pockets get bigger on the outside) in their intestines ( I
>> cannot think of the proper name) 
>
>"Diverticuli"
>
>cannot eat such grains as the silica
>> containing outer shell gets lodged in the cavities and they end with cancer
>> of the intestines.

John thanks for the proper name.  The wife just cooked me a pot of brown
beans with a little smoked back and I slipped in two hot peppers that had
not been skinned.  

What a life.  old jim