From: Gary Beasley (beasleyglb@mindspring.com)
Date: 10/02/01-02:25:31 PM Z
At 08:36 AM 10/2/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Cor,
>
>I forgot this is an international List.
>
>Life Savers are small toroidal hard sugary white mint candies. Been around
>the US since time began, most likely around 100 years. The look like
>little donuts or those rings one sends out to someone needing rescue from
>water. In effect any very hard white sugar candy should work.
Not quite, the wintergreen oil is what gets it to work. Lifesaver candy
just happens to have enough to make this work well.
>--Dick
>
>At 11:53 AM 10/2/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>>Richard, I got a (realy OT I guess) question:
>>
>>But what are Life savers in the below sense?
>>Chewing gum?
>>
>>Cor
>>
>>Richard Sullivan FRPS wrote:
>>...
>> > grind some cherry Life Savers in a mortar.
>>...
>>wintergreen Life saver. Make it
>> > snap. it will flash a light as you do it. really!
>> >
>> > --Dick Sullivan
>
>
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