> A niece of mine got sucked into selling Juice_Plus products (it's a
> MLM scheme) and is now giving away product as she can't even unload
> her initial inventory let alone generate enough business to order
> more product.  

Shakes head again. How can MLMs be allowed to 
persist in this day and age. They say that the
lottery is a tax on stupidity, but it can't hold
a candle to MLMs, whose premise seems to be that
the practitioners just have to keep bilking their
friends and relations and hold on until the
universe ends, and they'll get their just deserts.

> I just stumbled across another one: "Vegan Sencha Matcha Latte"
> Now Sencha tea is whole leaf sun grown green tea while Matcha is
> finely ground shade grown green tea - a tea can't be both
> simultaneously.

For this, it would be possible to have a mix of
two (inimical) styles of tea, like a blend of
orange pekoe and fannings, so that could take
care of the sencha matcha.

> Latte is the Italian word for milk which has become a short form for
> caffe e latte, coffee and milk. So we now have a vegan milk drink
> made with impossible tea instead of espresso.

We have Starbucks to thank for this state of
affairs, latte referring to some light-colored
adulterant that - in the US at least - isn't
prevented from using that name, as it wouldn't
be prevented from calling itself milk; and it
can be applied to all sorts of things, including
the dreaded chai tea latte (redundancy theirs).

> relaxing and steadying. Not only that it improves oral health,
> prevents cavities, bad breath and fights germs in your mouth.

To be fair, any dilution of saliva does all
those things, and there's no denying.

> I fired off a complaint to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
> highlighting the cancer claim. And I note that the DNA tea company I
> ranted about a while back is going out of business. I'd like to
> think that I played a small part in their demise.

Science - can't live with it, can't live without it.
Bear in mind that data collection without reasoning
behind it is purest futility.

> Now here a beverage that will cure what ails you and if nothing
> ails you, cure that too:
>       Title: The Flying Scotsman

For a sweet drink, that might nice - I'd be
inclined to ice it up. 

Pooh, I was going to do it, but Lilli has drunk 
up all the whisk(e)y except for the odious 
Kirkland Tennesse Single Barrel Straight Bourbon 
and apparently thrown out the brown vermouth. 
There is Lillet blanc in the cooler, but I should
maybe take this opportunity to purge my system of 
potential blood thinning substances, NSAIDs and 
alcohol included, in preparation for my next 
medical excitement Monday afternoon. More stents, 
I reckon, with unnecessary exposure to S2 in the
hospital. if there's anyplace I'll get infected,
it's there.

> ... There are a lot of sketchy claims out there. And outright frauds.

Problem is that it is easy to justify shortcuts in
research. Something is intuitively obvious, even 
if not independently verified, so the verification
gets glossed over; and guess what, it's not true,
and you get greater and greater deviation from 
what's real as people rely on the received canon of 
knowledge. Sort of the butterfly effect but actual.
I'm rather convinced that the flap about mask 
wearing will end up attributable to someone who 
claimed to do research on aerosol dispersal - or 
possibly length of viability of virus particles - 
that seemed to be obvious but eventually, maybe 
5 years from now, will turn out to have been the
exact opposite of what really happens.

There is the problem of outright lying, too; not
much one can do about that, though vigilante
justice has its appeal, in the abstract, anyway.

Fallen angel cocktail
cat: booze
servings: 1

1 ds Angostura Bitters 
2 ds Creme de Menthe 
1 lemon (juice only)
- or 1/2 lime (juice only) 
1 glass dry gin

Shake well and strain into glass.

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