Useless but Amusing Fact Competition

[Nutty_ZA]

Originally Posted by Mike

What is Kudo :?:

Mike...

A Kudu is a large antelope ....
See http://www.mccullagh.org/image/10d-1...ater-kudu.html

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

A Kudu is a large antelope ....
See http://www.mccullagh.org/image/10d-1...ater-kudu.html

Ah so thats what it is
Is it a dark game type meat :?: I had reindeer in Norway and I wasnt very keen on it, I also wondered if I had just eaten one of Santas helpers :-?

Mike...

[Nutty_ZA]

Originally Posted by Mike

Is it a dark game type meat :?: I had reindeer in Norway and I wasnt very keen on it, I also wondered if I had just eaten one of Santas helpers :-?

Mike...

Prancer or Blitzen? Surely not rudolph tho?
Good question for "ask a question thread... name Santa's Reindeer"

Actually Kudu is very much like beef... a little richer, but very nice...

Not that I'm in the habit of eating Kudu, have only done so a couple of times...
I'm more of a lamb and mint sauce man myself.

[Hyno]

My wife is a mint sauce with lamb on the side woman. ;-)

[Nutty_ZA]

I've just been "rummaging" thru my old archived items in my mail box and found this....
Not sure how true these are but make for interesting reading


LIFE IN THE 1500'S

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.
Here are some facts about the1500s:



Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to
smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence
the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house
had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men,
then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the
water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying,
Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats
and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it
became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs.

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed
a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up
your nice clean bed . Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the
top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence
the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery
in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep
their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you
opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was
placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always
hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.
They ate mostly vegetables and! did not get much meat. They would eat the
stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then
start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there
for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold,
peas porridge in the pot nine days old..

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was
a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off
a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or
so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of
the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper
crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along
the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were
laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would
gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.
Hence the custom of holding a wake.

[Mike]

Very Intresting :!:

Mike...

[kazthorn]

LIFE IN THE 1500'S

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

I saw this some years ago very good :!:

Carried on from the above: As some people would sometimes 'wake' they would also put a long string in the coffin attached to a bell above ground in case someone was buried alive.

Hence the saying "A dead ringer"

[Hyno]

I thought it was the combination of cider in the lead cups which caused the problem??? :-k

Also, wasn't the term "honeymoon" based on the groom getting supplied mead by the father-in-law for a month??? Wish they brought THAT back!!!

[kazthorn]

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by kazthorn

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Really :shock: :?:

I never new that

Mike...