Date:  Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:40:24 -0400

From:  "Christopher R. Coolidge" <ccoolidg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOOSE.UVM.EDU>

Subject: Re: ambrosia



On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, Dan Alford wrote:



> I can attest to 'ambrosia' during 50s/60s church dinners in LA. But I have

> this phrase 'Hawaiian Delight' running around in some parallel universe.

>

>                             -- Moonhawk (%->)

>   <"The fool on the hill sees the sun going down and>

>   <the eyes in his head see the world spinning round">

>                 <-- McCartney/Lennon>

>

 Funny, I always thought ambrosia was the solid form of nectar of the gods.

I was never aquainted with the human equivalent until adulthood; I grew up

in Canada and it just wasn't part of the Canadian culinary vocabulary. I

might have liked it as a child, but as an adult I couldn't see what the

fuss was all about.