Gravy, milk, and Britain oh my!

[pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Benjamin" <jaffa276 at y...> wrote:
[snip]
> The main problem with very-low-fat / virtually-fat-free / whatever-
> you-call it milk is that it makes tea go grey, so it looks a bit 
> disgusting of an early morning.  Also it is absolutely no good in 
> White Russians.

White Russians?  Some sort of cake or dessert?  The term/name is 
almost as obscure as Stewed Swedes (very popular in Norway ;-) ), a 
side-dish (made of Swedih turnips).

> > 
> > Heather M., who now wants sausage gravy and biscuits (not 
> > cookies), instead of a donut, for breakfast with her restaurant-
> > sized glass of Diet Mountain Dew.
> 
> Surely mountain dew should be just pure water, plain and simple, 
> with perhaps a bit of granite: hence the addition of 'diet' would 
> be superfluous?
> 
> -Ben.

It also contains Yellow No. 3 and caffeine.  Mountain Dew is 
PepsiCo's reply to the Coca-Cola Corporation's Mello Yello - Yellow 
lemon-flavoured pop with caffeine.  I believe both use Yellow No. 3, 
which apparently has some cancer-provoking qualities.  At least 
Mountain Dew tastes better than Dr. Pepper (which, the one time I 
tasted it, at Regent's Palace Hotel in London, reminded me of Coca 
Cola with an added table-spoon of baking-soda).