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ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
When you eat one Ritz biscuit the salt and umami combination demands that you crave and eat another. When you have eaten 2.5 Ritz biscuits the receptors in your cakehole are full and can receive no more. Thus the amount of satisfaction derived from eating more Ritz biscuits diminishes with every biscuit but the need for more demands that you continue eating them in an attempt to fulfill that need. It's fine though, just eat the whole box.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
People who eat celery have sedative qualities.
5t3IIa
Registered User
Is that the same formula employed by Pringles?
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Yep, except the sour cream and onion flavour 'cos they make your breath smell of sick.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
No, Banana is actually a herb, not a fruit.
This is one of those pseudofacts that makes its way into pub quizzes whilst actually being not only bollocks, but meaningless bollocks. The term "herb" has no botanical meaning. A herb is just a vague culinary classification of plants whose leaves are used in cookery.
What this statement is trying to get at is that the banana plant is a herbaceous plant rather than a tree - this means that the plant has no woody tissue in its stem, and may die back and regrow from the base.
This does not tell you anything about the classification of the banana itself. Technically a banana is a berry, but a berry is defined as a type of fruit, and therefore it is in fact a fruit.
fredfelt
Mostly unknown member
Pringles are officially not crisps.
The manufactures argued that as they have less than 50% potato they are not crisps, and hence VAT does not apply.
fredfelt
Mostly unknown member
In 1870 E Van Wolf measured the iron content in spinach. He got the decimal point in the wrong place. As a result of overstating the iron content by 10 times the super hero Popeye was created to encourage kids to eat more spinach. The error was not noticed until 1930.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Not true, unfortunately.
It is used in Chinese medicine as a treatment for high blood pressure.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
If you ever use the phrase "flopsy bunnies" in my presence I will be forced to maim something.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
If they're flopsy to start with how do you measure how more flopsy the lettuce makes them?
Do you need to be a flopsometrist?
Flopsometrist. Excellent word
la ressistance
aesthete
steak is not a fruit because it has no seeds.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
Steak is a herbaceous legume found only on bonsai coral in the Herne bay area.
Dipping cheese into paprika or mustard powder before grating stops so much sticking to the grater and increases the flavour of the cheese.
Chocolate milk (made with skimmed milk) can be a good post exercise drink to ease muscle fatigue.
EU regulations classify carrots as fruit, because otherwise the Portuguese would have had to stop making and selling carrot jam.
Chocolate milk (made with skimmed milk) can be a good post exercise drink to ease muscle fatigue.
EU regulations classify carrots as fruit, because otherwise the Portuguese would have had to stop making and selling carrot jam.
Why can't Europeans make jam from vegetables? That's racist or some other form of -istiness.
Because rhubarb is botanically a vegetable yet it makes very nice jam. And nice pies and crumbles for dishing up with custard. You don't have vegetable pies with custard. Unless you're a bit weird.
Or Portuguese, maybe.
Because rhubarb is botanically a vegetable yet it makes very nice jam. And nice pies and crumbles for dishing up with custard. You don't have vegetable pies with custard. Unless you're a bit weird.
Or Portuguese, maybe.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
What about rhubarb pies?
Yes. What about them.
