Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 13, 2013
February 12, 2013
February 14, 2013
Transcript:
Wearing pajamas in public is popular in Shanghai, despite attempts by pajama policeman to stop the practice! Greenland shark me, popular in Iceland, is poisonous when fresh and only edible after several months of fermentation! U.S. Navy warships may be armed with laser weapons by 2014!
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Templo S.U.D. almost 12 years ago
Yeah, I’ve heard of hákarl before… on the Icelandic episode of Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.”
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I think we may need a new definition of “edible.”
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Simpsonfan….There are a lot of foods about which I’ve thought the same thing…. How many died figuring out which mushrooms were edible, for instance….Or that acorns and olives could be eaten after long soaking with lye….Cashews and coffee are only usable after roasting… and then there’s fugu….etc I’m sure.
Hunger prevailed, I suppose.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Gweedo, no! I’m in Marin right now!
Not that I’ve seen a pot plant in a zillion years….
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I don’t wear pajamas. TMI?
linsonl almost 12 years ago
I don’t own a pair of pajamas, officer, that wasn’t me that was reported, I sleep in the nude…..er….oh oh…maybe I shouldn’t have said that.
belldee90 almost 12 years ago
Pajamas are the PERFECT clothes. They’re modest, comfortable, warm, and inexpensive. The Chinese may be on to something.
LV1951 almost 12 years ago
PJ’s cover up a lot more than some clothes people wear out in the public!
jkhandy almost 12 years ago
If as much money and effort went into methods of preserving life as does into methods of destroying life, then this world of man would actually be a decent place to be.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
JK and Bob … the cashews sold as “raw” are not raw.
I said “roasted” when I should have said “cooked.”
“Roasted” nuts have been either fried or baked, which browns them.
“Raw” cashews have been steamed, or sometime just slightly heated, which does not.
Before that, cashews contain urushiol, which is also the “poison” found in poison ivy…. they are quite dangerous to eat, and also cause rashes, etc, in cashew pickers.
It is not legal to sell completely raw cashews in the US.
It also used to be illegal for “raw” sugar to be raw….. it was refined white sugar with molasses added back…. as is brown sugar.
Not sure of the current status of that, as some sugars are labelled so as to make me think they are actually unprocessed.