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I didn't know that!
Sarah Pi wrote: "A place to put your random and startling discoveries.I just read this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic......"
I did! I did! Richard told us about it back in MiniAm (RIP, MiniAm) a while back. :) Oh. Crap. Wait. I thought we were talking about something else besides cauliflower. NM, I didn't know. But now I do!
This is old news, but I found out the truth about lemmings just a year or so ago. Stupid Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom! My world was turned upside downhttp://animal.discovery.com/tv/a-list...
Larry wrote: "Those Dutch ...."i hope that means you're impressed by our entrepreneurial nature.
janine wrote: "Larry wrote: "Those Dutch ...."i hope that means you're impressed by our entrepreneurial nature."
And how far you'll go for your soccer team.
The Dutch did a marvelous job with New Amsterdam, setting the stage for a "world city" to grow and develop. I grew up in what was once New Netherlands.I love the Dutch.
Sarah Pi wrote: "janine wrote: "Larry wrote: "Those Dutch ...."i hope that means you're impressed by our entrepreneurial nature."
And how far you'll go for your soccer team."
FOOTBALL
Larry wrote: "I grew up in what was once New Netherlands.I love the Dutch."
Me too.
Yes, ma'am. No argument here. I usually say football, but I'm living in Ravensland right now, which must be where the purple cauliflower was invented.
I always thought white carrots were actually parsnips. they look like orange carrots except for the color. I might eat purple cauliflower. I don't in particular care for white veggies except for baked potatoes.
Larry wrote: "I love the Dutch."Their elders make good potato chips.
I don't really like white veggies either, except when Zu turns cauliflower magically into a less starchy version of mashed potatoes.
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HOOOMG, I LOVE cauliflower with hollandaise sauce (not the kind out of a packet... the family recipe kind).
Indians make cauliflowers into a taste sensation.
Carrots weren't actually orange? Now I don't know what's real and what isn't any more.
BunWat wrote: "Speaking of Dutch people and parsnips, I didn't know until recently that hutspot was originally made with parsnips because potatoes hadn't really arrived from the New World yet when the dish was in..."i love it too. i'm thinking of making it this week.
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I did not know that was possible!
An average person will produce around half a litre of fart gas per day, which roughly translates as 14 farts a day.http://scienceray.com/biology/10-thin...
That's both men and women, just to be clear.
i make the hutspot itself vegetarian but usually eat it with rookworst.
i feel for you, it's not the same without rookworst.
i put some butter in it too, or if i don't have any in the house, milk.
i might try adding some parsnips next time.
i don't think i've tried them. how would you describe the taste?
They have a mild, sweet slightly anise flavor. I like them roasted with olive oil.
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Lucky. It would take a lot of rooks to make a meal.
The "rook" part comes from the Dutch verb "roken," to smoke. It's a smoked sausage. The first syllable of the word rookwurst is pronounced like Al Roker's last name (which means "smoker" in Dutch), not like a rook on a chess board.
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Larry wrote: "They have a mild, sweet slightly anise flavor. I like them roasted with olive oil."this wil probably be used against me, but i like anise. i don't think i've ever tasted turnips, but i like rutabaga, which is a cross between turnip and cabbage.
janine wrote: "this wil probably be used against me, but i like anise."Must . . . . . . resist . . . . . . pull of the dark side.....
Can you believe I never ate parsnip? Must remedy.I love tidbits of factoid. For awhile I was collecting the original jobs of dogs. The Rhodesian Ridgeback is a lion hunter! Akitas hunt bears. Yikes!
janine wrote: "Larry wrote: "They have a mild, sweet slightly anise flavor. I like them roasted with olive oil."this wil probably be used against me, but i like anise. i don't think i've ever tasted turnips, b..."
I love anise. it is on next weeks shopping list
I didn't know that cornbread could be baked.I didn't know that Jay Mohr was an SNL cast member.
I forgot that Alec Baldwin wasn't always chunky.
I didn't know my son cooked himself a duck for thanksgiving dinner which he ate alone.
Britt-Britt wrote: "I didn't know that cornbread could be baked.."How else do you make it?
I didn't know that fake smiles use different muscles than real smiles. If a doctor asks a stroke victim to smile, he may smile crookedly. If you tell the same person a joke he finds funny, his real smile may return, since a different part of the brain controls the muscles.
Also, I didn't know that the phrase "it's a gas!" came from recreational use of nitrous oxide.
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Britt-Britt fries it.
I just read this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
and learned this:
"Until the 17th century most carrots eaten Europe were white, yellow or purple. The orange pigment was added by Dutch plant breeders looking for a way to celebrate Holland's royal family."
I've seen all of those before, but I didn't know that the orange was Dutch propaganda.