Like water for soup

[Joel S. Berson]

Water has a long and honorable tradition of being put in the
hand.  If the soup is tepid enough, why not?  (I would take the folk
wisdom as being about something too repulsive to touch.)

Joel

At 8/26/2006 10:15 AM, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/25/06 11:47:43 PM, jparish at SIUE.EDU writes:
>
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> > RonButters wrote:
> > > How about "Don't put anything in your mouth that you wouldn't put in your
> > > hand?" This was the wisdom of my great-grandmother (born in 1860).
> >
> > Soup?
> >
> > Jim Parish
> >
>
>Clearly, folk wisdom has its limits.
>
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