Question Fun # 3 – Food

Question Fun # 3 – Food

Question Fun

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Rory has asked some more fun questions…this time about food. We can answer them any way we want! Thanks, Rory!

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Today’s topic is ………….. Food Glorious Food

What is the best recipe containing whipped cream, strawberries and lashings of chocolate?

Banana Split

How many different colours of food can you think of on the top of your head without Googling the answers?

Black, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, Red, Orange, Brown, Beige,

I am [a] ____________CheF?

I am not a chef, but I can cook and bake. Except I do burn toast and bread of all kinds. It’s my signature dish, and everyone in my family knows it.

Really bad, practically hopeless

Not Bad, but awfully clumsy

About average ‘toast is a meal, right’

Above average, at least l don’t burn toast

Pretty damn good if l say so myself

Hot Kitchen Supremo and can master any dish blinfolded, with both arms tied behind my back and my feet in concrete boots

What is the one dish that no matter how hard you try you simply cannot master?

Candy making – I’ve tried, and it never turns out right

In your wise opinion, what are five main ingredients that could feed a family for a week with an assortments of recipes?

Hamburger meat, potatoes, peanut butter, jelly, green beans

Wine only meant for the drinking or the cooking?

Never use it for anything

What are three brilliant food quotes?

I’m on a seafood diet – I see food, I eat it

I eat to live, not live to eat

Have you eaten any of the following?

Snails, frogs legs, fugu, eyeballs, crispy tarantulas, squid, chocolate covered ants, jellied moose nose, huitlacoche, airag, Casu marzu, Century egg, Stargazey Pie, ostrich egg, alligator, locusts and if none of those what then is the wierdest food you have ever consumed and lived to write about it now?

I’ve had snails, frog legs, squid, none of the others. One weird meal we had was when my daughter was learning to cook. She made us a macaroni, prune & bubblegum casserole. We ate it…and lived! haha

What is umami?

Something Ross (of the TV show ‘Friends’) was going on about one time. He thought it was karate or something.

What colour is the French wine Beaujolais?

Purple?

What is a great musical track that always makes you think of food?

From which cactus is tequila made?

Tecate

Why on earth is blue cheese blue and red cheese red, how so?

They are nasty moldy lumps of grossness!

What is a pisang when it is at home with the family?

No idea

What is it about baked beans, why do they make you fart and why does asparagus make your pee smell, well ………….odd?

Chemical reaction in the guts

Okay, Pita when not meaning ‘Pain in the ass’ what does this Greek word really mean?

Pocket bread

Who loves Ben & Jerry ice cream? i am pretty sure l know of at least three of my readership who love this brand, so there should be no reason not to know the answer to this question?  Which one of the following is NOT one of their recipes?

Birthday Cake/BM’s One Love/Civet Coffeecrumbles/Half Baked/Caramel Chew Chew

Taking a guess…BM’s One Love? The only Ben & Jerry ice cream I’ve ever had was Cherry Garcia

What is Seitan when it is not terrorising the neighbourhood and What is Lupin if not a cousin of the werewolf?

Food on a stick, and a flower?

Of the following which is are the fermented food stuffs?

Sauerkraut/Kefir/Kombucha/Matcha 

All of them

Why does fish smell so fishy and so very fishy at that?

Because they are fish and they are scary and they are nasty. They probably are smelly to keep from getting eaten, but it doesn’t work.

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Funny & Found – Pig Fat

Funny & Found – Pig Fat

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Here are a couple more funny and found diary entries from little notebooks I bought at a yard sale. This one is a kid’s do it yourself Wimpy Kid diary. There were a few entries in there.

You can click photo to enlarge.

The first one is titled Inventions, and they wrote in big letters…

• Jello is made out of pig fat
• My sister is mean
• Mom is nice

The second is titled Future, also big letters…

• No more mack up (make up I think they meant)
• No more phones
• No m hip hop
• No Phitens (I think they meant fighting)
• No more boys

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Red paperback book “Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do It Yourself Book”

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Funny & Found – aw aw aw aw Stupid

Funny & Found -aw aw aw aw Stupid

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I’m forever buying used notebooks, diaries, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and finding fun things in them.  I also find other things that are funny, or it’s funny where I find them.

I find people’s discarded grocery lists, too, along with whole photo albums, cards and letters.

I just like finding things like these, because I try to imagine who wrote them, why something was discarded, and what the people’s stories are.

So, I’ll post a few of these from time to time.

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You can click photo to enlarge:

Here’s a page from a little used notebook that I bought at a yard sale. I’m sure it belonged to a kid. They didn’t write much in it, though.

This one was in a lilac and light blue notebook with flowers on it. The page is lined, and a big red letter W was scribbled on it, with the word ‘stupid’. The only writing in ink was the top line saying, ‘aw aw aw aw aw aw’.

aw aw aw aw Stupid

Kindness gives birth to kindness

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Dear Gravity – Remote Control

Dear Gravity – Remote Control

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A long time ago I posted some make-believe letters to different places. I didn’t send them, of course…it was just for fun. Here’s one of them, with more to come later.

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Dear Gravity:

What’s up with being so consistent all these eons?

Haven’t you heard the saying that goes something like this…’variety is the spice of life’? I don’t know who said that, in the first place, but it is pretty true.

Wouldn’t it be fun to vary your gravitational pull from time to time? It would be quite fun for us to never know if we’d be super heavy one day, and the next day be floating around from place to place, as we went about our business. What would be neat, is if someone invented a type of remote control a person could purchase, to wear on a belt. We could punch in whatever strength of gravity we wanted for the day. Any inventors out there want to give it a try?

I think I’d use mine a lot, mostly for making objects just hang out in mid-air. I’m always dropping things, and they just fall down, down, down, to the floor, and I’m scrabbling to catch it before it hits and breaks, or makes a big mess. Then I have to holler at it, cause it has caused me to have to bend down to pick it up or clean it up. This can happen many times a day, as I seem to have a case of the ‘butterfingers’. This way, if I could control gravity, it would just bob around in the air, making it easy for me to retrieve. It sure would be a time saver.

I’d also like for myself to be buoyant, because I tend to fall over, fall down, trip over my own feet, and generally be a klutz. I don’t enjoy that…it hurts, and as they say…what if I can’t get up? It would be great to set my remote control thing-a-ma-bob to half power, or float in air power. That would solve a lot of my problems.

There could be cute words on the device, with all kinds of apps you could add, for your own specific needs. So, gravity…and inventors…what do you say? Are we good to go with this idea?

 

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The Indigo Girls released “Galileo” in 1992 as a single from their album, “Rites of Passage”. It was written by Emily Saliers, and is on the Epic label.

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Variable Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge – Letter V

Variable Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge – Letter V

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2019/04/

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Variable Definition = vituperation – The distinctive smell of sweat that is exuded after taking certain vitamins.

Sentence = Bonnie smelled like an orange when she worked out, after taking her vitamin C.

Real Definition = Sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance (abuse)

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Variable Definition = varve – An insect egg; an undeveloped larva.

Sentence = Vector control reports that local ponds have been inundated with mosquito varve, and are due to hatch out soon.

Real Definition = A pair of layers of alternately finer and coarser silt or clay believed to comprise an annual cycle of deposition in a body of still water.

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Variable Definition = velamen – A breath refresher tablet, for men.

Sentence = Guys, tired of your mouth feeling fruity and minty? Velamen breath tablets are available in these new flavors…steak, beer, and jalapeno/cheese.

Real Definition = The thick, corky epidermis of aerial roots of an epiphytic orchid, that absorbs water from the atmosphere.

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One Liner Wednesday

One Liner Wednesday

One-Liner Wednesday – Pavlov’s Dog

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Here’s a funny:

Poker term = Motown

two Jacks and two fives

Jackson Fives

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What’s the longest word?

“Smiles”

Because there is a mile between one s to the other s

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Quirky Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter Q

Quirky Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter Q

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2019/04/

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Mystery Box Chickens say, “Chickens are Quite Quirky”

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Quirky Definition = Quokka – The sound a trained parrot makes.

Sentence = I taught my pet parrot to talk. He can say, “Polly wants a quokka,” all the time.

Real Definition = A Quokka is a small marsupial animal found in Australia.

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Quirky Definition = qualmish – A breakfast cereal, served hot.

Sentence = Every morning, Timmy added raisins, brown sugar, and cream, to his bowl of qualmish.

Real Definition = Feeling qualms; nauseated; overly scrupulous; squeamish; of, relating to, or producing qualms.

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Quirky Definition = quidnunc – The name of the most famous sled dog in history.

Sentence = As winner of many sled dog races, Quidnunc was in high demand for stud service.

Real Definition = One who seeks to know all the latest news or gossip; a busybody.

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Odd-ball Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter O

Odd-ball Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter O

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2019/04/

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Mystery Box Chickens say, “I’m not odd – I’m just like you!”

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Odd-ball Definition = omicron – A camera used in the film industry, combining the special effects of Omni-max and specific shadings of chrome.

Sentence = Jason graduated film school with a MDOT degree …Master’s Degree in Omicron Technology.

Real Definition = The fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Odd-ball Definition = oolite – A workable, toy flashlight, that projects images onto a ceiling.

Sentence = The trademarked name ‘oolite’ was coined by children who tested the prototype. They all exclaimed “oolite” when the on button was pushed.

Real Definition = A rock consisting of small round grains, usually of calcium carbonate cemented together.

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Odd-ball Definition = oneiric – A lesser amount and lower quality than that of generic.

Sentence = To save even more money, Beverly only purchased oneiric groceries.

Real Definition = Of or relating to dreams; dreamy.

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Nutty Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter N

Nutty Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter N

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2019/04/

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Mystery Box Chickens say, “Sometimes you feel like a nut.”

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Nutty Definition = nobble – To take a nibble of an apple while playing the apple bobbing game.

Sentence = At parties, Janie was the best apple nobbler.

Real Definition= To incapacitate, esp. by drugging; to win over to one’s side; steal, swindle, cheat.

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Nutty Definition = nimiety – A truce between enemies; amity.

Sentence = After a fierce battle on the field, the red team and the blue team finally called for nimiety.

Real Definition = Too much; excess; redundancy.

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NuttyDefinition = non troppo – Opposite of tropical; a cool, dry climate.

Sentence = After living in the tropics for many years, the Jones family were re-located to a non troppo region.

Real Definition = Not too much; without excess – used to qualify a direction in music

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Jokey Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter J

Jokey – Definitions – A to Z Blog Challenge 2019 – Letter J

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2019/04/

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The Mystery Box Chickens ask, “Why did the Chicken cross the road?”

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Here’s some more definitions of words I made up (plus the real definitions) starting with letter J.

I give the word which I didn’t know about, and my iffy or silly definition. Then, I use it in a sentence. Next I give the real definition from the dictionary.

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Jokey Definition = jurat – A person who attends jury trials, just to observe.

Sentence = Barney was such a jurat, he knew as much about how a jury trial worked, as well as any lawyer.

Real Definition = Jurat, short for juratum…it has been sworn; a certificate added to an affidavit stating when, before whom, and where it was made.

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Jokey Definition = jipijapa– An elaborate hand slapping game, using a rhyming, sing-song beat, played by children.

Sentence = On the playground at school, there were several groups of kids playing jipijapa.

Real Definition = A Central and South American plant (Carludovica palmate of the family Cyclanthaceae) resembling a palm.

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JokeyDefinition = jusanguinis – A variety of red wine.

Sentence = The patrons of the wine tasting event preferred the jusanguinis over all other red wines sampled.

Real Definition = A rule that a child’s citizenship is determined by its parents’ citizenship.

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“The Joker”, by the Steve Miller Band, was recorded on their album of the same name in 1973. It was written by Steve Miller, Eddie Curtis and Ahmet Ertegun, and is on the Capitol label.

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