Maureen wrote: > Ah!!! Sarsaparilla, Yum. <snip> Seem to remember too that it was > banned by the 'powers that be' a few years ago as it contained some > drug (i.e. if you had 500 gallons of the stuff it could affect you). > They must have got around this now. Even the Sarsaparilla tablets > disappeared for a while. Interesting that, as I am reading this, I am listening to the morning news report in the background and they just had a story about how a student has found that Sarsaparilla (or an extract from it?) restricts the growth of cancer cells. Seems our ancestors had a better grasp of things than the more recent powers that be. Katie Brampton, Ontario