well, now I know why poppy seeds are ALSO used for morphine and heroin. After grinding the little

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marilynfl

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buggers, you want one or the other or possibly both.

Harry Potter fans will recognize the scene in the attached video: Dumbledore must drink--cup by cup--an entire font of poison in order to reach the hidden horcrux. It is an agonizing scene to watch because Harry must force his school master to drink the excruciatingly painful poison.

Okay...done watching? Good, so the mood is set. THAT'S what it felt like grinding an entire cup of organic poppy seeds tablespoon by tablespoon in my little coffee grinder. Spoon in a tablespoon of seeds, grind, grind, grind, stop, open up, scrap the stuff stuck to the sides, grind, grind, grind, stop, open up, scrap into a bigger bowl--and then add ANOTHER TABLESPOON.

Now, there are 16 TBL to a cup, but I SWEAR this somehow turned into 16,000 TBL.

And--of course--on the very last tablespoon, my enthusiasm at this task being done short-circuited my brain and I stopped and yanked off the lid--while the tiny blade was still spinning those tiny little seeds--which means those tiny little seeds are now all over my kitchen counter and floor.

JUST STRAP A BELT AROUND MY BICEP, SLAP THE VEIN AND GET ME A NEEDLE! STAT!

And you want to know the WORSE thing...I mean, worse than having to clean up a bazillion little seeds on the floor? I STILL don't like the taste of poppy seeds.

Only now I can't blame it on commercialized, preservative-ladened jarred stuff with an expiration date 2 year from now. Nope...this is all good ingredients, freshly made and I still don't like it.

Damn.

 
Lana, check carefully. Otto's ships out of CA and they say it's 2-day air >> fresh-ground

I would have tried it, but the shipping cost may be prohibitive just to test their flavor.

"(For Freshness, Ground Poppy Seed should be shipped
"2nd Day Air" for orders to the Midwest, South and East Coast.)"

I pay $4.50 for 8 oz of organic seeds, so their seed pricing is right on the mark.

 
I know Otto's. He had or has one of those corner stores a block from school where kids from the

H.S. would hang out and smoke because you couldn't on campus. It's the kind of store that has everything from Hungarian records to pots and pans to Hungarian peppers and sausage, stocked literally from ceiling to floor. I remember him going to the Hungarian Newspaper Day and he was walking around with a coin changer strapped to his belt as he was selling Hungarian peppers. Quite a small time business guy.

 
Thanks for sharing Oli. dh's family is from Hungary. I have been there a few times. I loved

watching people making strands of peppers and the beautiful needlework.
I would love to have a store like you described near me.

 
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