[Magdalen] Indian (and other) English

[Raewynne Whiteley]

Our eight grade geography teacher used the story of a pressure cooler
exploding with pea soup to explain how volcanos erupt. I've always
remembered it.  I guess pea soup is notorious of exploding!

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 3/2/2015 12:41:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> revegger at gmail.com writes:
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> Jay, my  mother, too, had a fear of pressure cookers.  I've been watching
> some  vids on You Tube about pressure cooking and can see where her fear
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> have  come from.  Despite the 'modern changes' the cooks always remind  the
> viewer of the dangers that come with pressure  cooking.>>>
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> Western Wisconsin (Eau Claire) is the corporate home of the "Presto"
> Company that made its debut manufacturing pressure cookers.   Every
> cook in that area had one, and, in the case of my mother, several
> pressure cookers of various sizes.
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> I may have posted the story of my mother's pressure cooker "event"
> in the earlier years of the pressure cooker mania.
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> She made some pea soup in a pressure cooker, and no one was,
> luckily, in the kitchen, which up until that event was painted white,
> when it blew up, cascading pea soup over everything, including walls
> and ceiling.
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> Mother sized up the damage and said, "You know, I like this color."
> For the remaining nearly 60 years she lived in the family home,
> it was a pea-soup color for the kitchen.
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> David Strang - who remembers that the Presto Company is owned by
> the Phillips family, which includes columnists "Ann Landers,"(Eppie)
> and twin sister "Dear Abby" (Po Po).
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