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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (38421)	9/22/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Flight! The wonders of flight. Bzzzzt! I'm a bizzy bee-verb. By the way, they have these little places around here, for some reason this reminds me of it, that are like tiny train stations or bus stops, where "the buyers" gather up peppermint oil. I've never been up to one, but I've had them pointed out to me by an employer. And I don't know if they do the peppermint oil buying business this way anymore. But there'd be a truck dock there, and some barrels and a locked up part. They can only grow peppermint for a while on some ground, and then they can't grow it again, there, here. (If you ask me why, I will start crying.) It takes A LOT of peppermint plants to make a barrel of peppermint oil. I don't know how they do it; it would be fascinating to find out. (You guys wanna sponsor an Expedition??? :o) ) Peppermint is cool. Way cool. It's basically the same as you can grow in your garden, and smells pepperminty (that has to be a word) ~ it smells pepperminty when you drive by the fields in your car. Peppermint off-gassing. Very nice. Nicer than dairy air, anyway. Whoo-whee. We could maybe assume it gets squeezed, the plants, but maybe we'd have less than a fifty-fifty chance of being right. I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO IT. I ALREADY SED THAT. So, the only barrels I've seen are these fifty-five gallon monsters. Which, full of a liquid, could easily weigh 450 lbs. That's A LOT of peppermint oil. If you put sand or something in the bottom, you would get in trouble. But what makes this industry weird,besides tasty, is that those barrels, at the time this was told to me twenty years ago, were supposed to be worth $55,000.00 a piece. Now I don't know how if that's true; I just know what I been tole. The sad part, is that it would be really nice if I could tell you all how many acres of peppermint it takes to fill one of those barrels. Aren't ya curious? I knew you were. It was told to me, but I FORGET. Heedless to say, it's A LOT. PS: Apparently, "Peppermint Oil Rustlers" are a problem.