[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: English food revisited

[Phil Vlasak]

Hi Nicol,
It wouldn't be fare to use the same puzzle as all the book readers can look up the solution instead of figuring it out.
Once you know the potion in the smallest bottle will take you forward, it is too easy.

I thought of this that I call the Rainbow bottle puzzle
  7 bottles of poison each a different color
  1 red, 2 orange, 3 yellow, 4 blue, 5 indigo, 6 violet, 7 black.
  Only one mixture of the bottles will cancel out the poison in each.
  You mix half of two bottles to make green,then mix half of two bottles to make purple and add that to the green.
  If you drink the mixture you will go forward.
  answer,  
  spoiler\
  space
  half of 4 plus half of 5 equals green
  half of 1 plus half of 5 equals purple
  mix those to get through the fire.

  This uses color theory as the answer and could be discovered easy using google.
  What do you think?




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: geoff_bannister 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:13 AM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: English food revisited


    --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "tonks_op" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:

  Tonks_op
  > I know there was a long discussion about this a year ago. There is a section in our local grocery with things from different countries. I bought some stuff and looks at some other stuff that I remember hearing the name here. So what do I do with Lemon Curd? And how do you serve Treacle? It is in a can. And what is some strange thing that sounded like some sort of veg. spread. I didn't get any. Can't remember the name.. like Marmilte or something. What is that and why would you use it? It doesn't help that I don't cook. I hate cooking but thought I might be healthier if I forced myself to learn to do it well. Starting with something in a can, ya.. well one step at a time. Ugh... where IS that house-elf!! 

  Geoff:
  Ah, now you're into the realm of spreads and things....

  Lemon Curd is not a popular as it once was but it is a spread, like jam or 
  marmalade. made from, surprise, lemons. I remember my mother making 
  it not long after the war when families made a lot more things a home than 
  nowadays.

  Treacle is, I believe, known as molasses in the US. In the home, we would 
  use it as an ingredient for such delicacies as treacle sponge pudding or 
  treacle toffee.

  Any self-respecting Brit will tell you what Marmite is; it is a British icon. It 
  is a yeast extract used as a spread - or sometimes by folk as a drink. It's a 
  great favourite with children. Our 2-year old granddaughter loves Marmite 
  "soldiers" which are made by spreading it on a slice of bread or toast and 
  cutting the slice into strips. I sometimes will have a couple of slices of toast 
  and Marmite for supper. It's a very recognisable item on the shelves - a 
  brown, glass, almost-spherical jar with a bright yellow top and an oval bright 
  yellow label.

  PS Tonks, keep an eye on your mail inbox.....



  


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