Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 21, 2020

can a lion’s roar be heard — in Jason Snake Lover’s case — six miles away? (is it the outer, prickly side of a pineapple that can tenderize meat?)

Yeah, in the 40s-60s there was a Santa Claus in California, too.

I knew about the pineapple one, because it’s an ingredient you’ll find in meat tenderizers in the spice aisle.

At our local zoo, I was recording one of the lions, a male, hoping to catch him roaring. Instead he walked over to one of the females, and I caught something else entirely…

The lion’s roars must have a bad effect on real estate prices near zoos.

From five miles away? Surly you’re lyin’! :-)

that aint nothin….the mother-in-law can be heard from 10 miles…..

I am 10 miles from our zoo (up the river) an on a quiet day an can hear them.

It’s true. Pineapple makes meat tender… and unedible sweet!!! :D Be a man! Bang the no-longer-living heck out of it with a mallet ;-)

In Santa Claus, they use the lion at the zoo to make African Lion Pineapple Enzymes. They feed the lion the whole fruit. Like Civet Cat Coffee, also known as Kopi Luwak, his poop is collected and sold as an expensive meat tenderizer.

There’s a city in New York named North pole. Whale song can travel 10,000 miles. (That is how you one up Ripley)

To anyone here who does or does not ask…

…pineapple (or, more exactly, its juice) contains enzymes (most prominently bromelain) to break down the fibers in meat and subsequently tenderize it. Papaya (or, more exactly, its pulp and juice, when beaten to a fibrous state) has a similar effect because of the enzyme papain.

Neither pulp tenderization is known to leave a significant taste on the meat, despite what confirmation biases like James Wolfenstein’s seem to attest. Such perceptions can be the result of a preconception bias which can trick the tongue into anticipating an associated taste…but then I’m only the son of the man who invented vancomyacin, not the man himself who could see the molecules in his mind’s eye like the great Friedrich A. Kekulé (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9), the person who discovered the structure of chemicals.

Historically, similar observations were conducted with fish and citrus, primarily lemon, as we all see today…which only originated out of a belief that acidic lemon juice would dissolve any inadvertently swallowed fish bones.

Pineapple contains a group of proteolytic enzymes which break down proteins into amino-acids, similar to papain derived from papaya. Santa Claus also has a large amusement park.

Reminded me of Rovaniemi, in Finland, called “Santa Claus Village”. A tourist trap, if I ever saw one.

Pineapple goes good on pizza

Ho Ho Ho Hoosiers

There are still people living in Indiana?

Take care, may the bored be with you, and gesundheit.

Ah good. It can tenderise the meat I just ate. Gimme that pineapple!

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!

Is that why fresh pineapple makes my mouth feel like I’ve been eating Cap’n Crunch?

I have a recipe for a teriyaki meat marinade that has pineapple juice in it. It does work.

So why isn’t there a town called “Easter Bunny”? or “Jack’O Lantern”? or even “Great Pumpkin”? I like the sound of “Great Pumpkin Falls, Idaho”!

Santa Claus Indiana disappoints millions of children from around the world every Christmas.

Directions: Grab the pineapple by the crown and beat the meat with the pointy pineapple body.

Female lions live 6 miles away from male lions.

I’d like to know that pineapple trick.

Workers who regularly handle Pineapple flesh don’t have any fingerprints

There is a town outside Fairbanks Alaska named the North Pole.

I don’t care what pineapple can do; you’re still not putting it on my pizza!

and Santa Claus in California

There is a Santa Clause Arizona, too.

1 Peter 5:8- " Your Adversary, Satan, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour someone." In a zoo in Rochester, NY, I was in the Big Cat building and a lion let loose with a roar that you could feel shake the building!

Back in roughly 1966, I went to the St. Louis Zoo. Instead of the moated in enclosures that are so prominent today (and much more humane) they had houses for the big cats with concrete floors and ceilings and steel bars. Not much to absorb the sound, but very good acoustics – almost amplifying the roars of the big cats in all directions. They had not only lions, but tigers, including Siberian Tigers, and when any of them roared, the sound was heard all across the zoo, which is only 89 acres, and well beyond. Had I been in a jungle after with an uncaged big cat roaming in the area and roaring, I’m pretty sure I’d have needed several changes of clothing before the cat ate me.

Upon seeing a raging lion behind me, the roar wouldn’t stand a chance of keeping up…

While Papaya enzymes are used in commercial products, the blackjack is the original Adolf’s Tenderizer…

A previous BION said that mail in Canada sent to Santa Claus would go to the postal code H0H 0H0.