Re: Fw: Fw: Scratches, Sauerkraut, & Hints From Heloise

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

> > When the plague hit London The whole city was quarantined, the country
> folk
> > would leave food and produce at  the city wall, the city folk would come
> out and
> > take the produce, they would leave the payment  (all money was in coins)
> in a
> > bowl of vinegar so as not to spread the disease. At least this was what
I
> was
> > taught in my school history class.


Ummmmm....except that plague is spread by the bite of infected fleas.<g>
But it's nifty trivia. :-))))))  (maybe the fleas jumped into the bowl of
vinegar and all drowned???)

Susan G