Friday, 27 November 2009
Farm Relief Freedom Relay an analysis
Up over at PJM for your reading pleasure. Thanks to all those who contributed to such a successful relay and final event in Fresno.
Video: "Ten Years On" - TaxPayers' Alliance cinema advert
This is the new cinema advert from the TaxPayers' Alliance - the first cinema advert from a UK political campaign in almost a decade. As well as highlighting the huge cost of the EU to ordinary tax...
H/T DML
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Everything you ever wanted to know about ketchup
97% of American homes keep ketchup in their kitchen.
Each person eats about 3 bottles a year.
A tablespoon of ketchup has 16 calories and no fat.
4 tablespoons of ketchup have the nutritional value of an entire ripe, medium tomato.
As with wines, there are good and bad ketchup years depending on how sweet and flavorful the tomato harvest.
Most brands are made from tomato paste or tomato concentrate, boiled down in late summer when tomatoes are harvested, and used throughout the year to cook the final product.
Ketchup made in summer is made directly from ripe tomatoes.
Ketchup is great for restoring the glow to copper pots and pans. The acid in ketchup removes tarnish and brings out the shine.
In the 18th and 19th century, ketchup was a generic term used for various sauces whose only common ingredient was vinegar.
There is more to ketchup than just tomato ketchup. Some of the many varieties that have been popular include lobster, walnut, mushroom, cucumber, cranberry, oyster, lemon, grape, and anchovy.
Heinz ketchup was introduced in 1876 as a “Blessed relief for Mother and the other women in the household!”
Heinz sells more than 50% of the ketchup sold in the U.S.\
Unopened bottles of ketchup can be stored for 1 year on a cool, dark, dry shelf. Tightly covered opened bottles will last a month in a cool, dark, dry place.
Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.
Tomato Catsup has a high acid content (due to both the tomatoes and vinegar in it) and therefore does not have to be refrigerated after opening. It is safe to store it at room temperature, but it will taste better if kept refrigerated.
Sales of Salsa overtook Ketchup sales in 1991 (in terms of dollar value).
H/T DML
Video: Blue Rodeo and Elton Adams Live in Afghanistan
More at Elton Adams and Thank a Soldier
H/T Mark H
Thursday, 26 November 2009
what Larry the Cable Guy has to say about Nebraska ...
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Nebraska .
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Nebraska .
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Nebraska .
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Nebraska .
If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of GRAND ISLAND for the weekend, you live in Nebraska .
If you measure distance in squares of farm land, you live in Nebraska .
If you know several people who have hit a cow more than once, you live in Nebraska .
If you have gone from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again, you live in Nebraska .
If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Nebraska .
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you live in Nebraska
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in Nebraska .
If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Nebraska .
If the I-80 speed limit is 75 mph -- you're going 90 and everybody is passing you, you live in Nebraska .
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Nebraska .
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Nebraska .
If you have more hours on your snow blower than miles on your car, you live in Nebraska ..
If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you live in Nebraska .
If you understand these jokes, and forward them to all your Nebraska friends & others, you actually have lived in Nebraska .
H/T Kenneth
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