Random Fact of the Day

glitched18x wrote:

Okay these might be considered as "facts" but I just want to share.

WARNING: Not for the weak stomach.

Spoiler:

Frev, you need not see this again. Hehehe.

That's so funny! :-)

glitched18x wrote:

Okay these might NOT be considered as "facts" but I just want to share.

WARNING: Not for the weak stomach.

Spoiler:

Frev, you need not see this again. Hehehe.

OK this website is awesome! There's the most terrifying drinks, 'improved foods' (including the egg-loaf), and the most terrifying drinks. I'm now reading the most terrifying restaurants in the world. Thanks for giving me a laugh! :-)

I agree with Vonnie. And can I thank Glitchy for not suggesting Balut as my cuisine to try from the Phillipines? :whew:

My mom use to eat balut. (in Guam) but I don't think she has, since she lived in the US which has been for over 30 years. She only told me about it. She said the beak was crunchy. :uuggh: *Pam runs away screaming*


Why is frev being so horrid? Suggesting I eat the grossiest things from around the world?

I'm not being horrid, I'm just trying to broaden your palate

Besides, if they're considered delicacies where they're from then they might not be all that bad. Might even be pretty tasty, if you can manage to forget what it is you're actually eating. Well, except that cheese anyway; I don't really want to eat something that'll wriggle around in my mouth.

Frevett wrote:

I'm not being horrid, I'm just trying to broaden your palate

Besides, if they're considered delicacies where they're from then they might not be all that bad. Might even be pretty tasty, if you can manage to forget what it is you're actually eating. Well, except that cheese anyway; I don't really want to eat something that'll wriggle around in my mouth.

Exactly Flim!

Hmm... I've heard about this cheese. Basically, the maggots eat the cheese when they hatch, and, using the whole 'you are what you eat' ethos, the maggots become live cheese-laden capsules. They also don't just let any old maggots infect the cheese, they are specially grown and selected, specifically chosen NOT to give you diseases and the such. Even so, and I'm a BIG CHEESE FAN, I wouldn't eat it.

I suppose each country has its speciality foods that other countries wouldn't like. I wonder how many other countries would eat fried pig blood (black pudding), tripe (animal guts), and fried pig skin snacks (pork scratchings). Is it me, or do a lot of weird foods come from pigs?

I only found out recently that, even with high quality flour, there are lots of these grain weevils that live inside bags. These often go through the flour processing and come out the other side (dead, but present in the bags). Once again, they can't hurt you, you'd never know they're there, because they are basically MADE OF flour. Even so, I always sift my flour using a fine sieve, before I bake anything.

And, lets not forget, the best wines are made with ROTTEN grapes! (they are infected with Botrytis cinerea).

echidna09 wrote:

I suppose each country has its speciality foods that other countries wouldn't like. I wonder how many other countries would eat fried pig blood (black pudding), tripe (animal guts), and fried pig skin snacks (pork scratchings). Is it me, or do a lot of weird foods come from pigs?

And, lets not forget, the best wines are made with ROTTEN grapes! (they are infected with Botrytis cinerea).

Not sure if you know this echi but in our recipe section I am asking for foods/recipes from every country. I am going to try a full english breakfast as my salute to the UK, and have been trying to find black pudding to make it "authentic."

I have tried Menudo (which includes tripe) and I do not like it. And pork rinds (fried pig skin snacks) are a typical American snack food.

I have also eaten the worm from a bottle of tequila. (By eaten -I mean swallowed whole.)

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Not sure if you know this echi but in our recipe section I am asking for foods/recipes from every country. I am going to try a full english breakfast as my salute to the UK, and have been trying to find black pudding to make it "authentic."

I have tried Menudo (which includes tripe) and I do not like it. And pork rinds (fried pig skin snacks) are a typical American snack food.

I have also eaten the worm from a bottle of tequila. (By eaten -I mean swallowed whole.)

Eating the worm in the tequila is very similar to eating the maggots in the cheese... because its been inside the tequila for a long time, it is essentially MADE OF tequila. Even so, I don't think I'd eat it.

As for tripe: its not my taste. Its a bit slimy and stretchy. Oh, and I thought Pork Scratchings were a typical English pub-snack eaten with lots of beer.

Black pudding shouldn't be too tough to make, its just: blood, onions, herbs and spices, inside a sausage skin. You boil it up, if you're making fresh, and then you can fry them in slices (which is how we have them for an English Breakfast). Fried black pudding is quite bad for you, but quite tasty.

Have you tried Haggis?

"The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate — 10 km per year at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 40 km per year in 2003, and since then has only accelerated. In the last decade magnetic north was shifting roughly one degree every five years." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

Does this mean that North isn't North any more? The points on the map from 2010 - 2040 are my predictions, based on some of the data that is out there on the internet. I hope one day that Magnetic North ends up in my back garden! :-) (btw, this doesn't affect where Father Christmas lives, he still lives in Lapland.)

I think we talked about this in geology . This is a regular happening and if you analyse different magnetic rocks at the bottom of the ocean somes' magnetism is towards North and some others' is towards the South with the same pattern alongside the rift. Is that what you meant?

Deoceus wrote:

I think we talked about this in geology . This is a regular happening and if you analyse different magnetic rocks at the bottom of the ocean somes' magnetism is towards North and some others' is towards the South with the same pattern alongside the rift. Is that what you meant?

Kinda, I think! I just thought it was interesting, albeit a bit random, that the magnetic north of our planet is moving around. I hear there's going to be a complete reversal one day soon (north will become south). I don't know when this will happen, but, chances are, its already happened and we didn't notice

I've been told it was about every few thousand years but it's already 2000 years late xP
Random fact of the day:
Today would be the birthday of a Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. He suffered from liver failure, depression, (probably) schizophrenia and he eventually died of pancreatitis. So as he can see he had a boose problem which made him such a good poet relatively to his depressive style of writing.
There was a case of a portuguese swimmer that got a scholarship in an american college. He had lots of opportunities to improve his career but he died. This created some trouble because he was choked but there was no traces of anyone killing him. Blood test showed that he had had drugs that stopped his reflexes allowing him to choke himself. More importantly he had been reading Fernando Pessoa which is believed to have been what lead him to that.
The schizophrenia case cannot be proven although he would create people (heteronomous I think?)in detail with different mentalities in his thought and write as if it was them.

I better not put anything he wrote here
BTW, my signature: "A força sem a destreza a sem força é uma simples massa" is a quote from him. It means: Stength without dexterity is just a mass. It's one of the few things I agree with him.

Random Fact of the Day:
I have a crush on our Pharmacist. He's cute. His name is Douglas but I call him Doug. His hair is longer than when I last saw him (mid-May).

I asked him a lot of things like if I can put Octreotide subcu on a butterfly. He said it's ok, we don't need to rotate the site a lot like insulin.

So then after that I asked him if I can use the waste on a single dose vial of Octreotide and he said just waste it because it doesn't have any presarvatived in it and we don't want to contaminate the contents.

I'm still thinking of different questions to ask him, even though I can basically look them up in the computer or in the drug book.

Did I tell you he's cute?