Total Trivia

[MSH2]

Perfect diet food...

Mushrooms, okay, tasty. Little garlic, fry them in olive oil, Yummy. But celery? Yuck

 

[CCaprice]

It takes takes more energy to eat and digest Celery than you get from it. Also Mushrooms. You could eat mushrooms and celery and starve to death

I smell a great new diet book!!!

 

[fire_breeze]

Mushrooms, okay, tasty. Little garlic, fry them in olive oil, Yummy. But celery? Yuck

Mm, oh that is good.

And celery is good with peanut butter.

 

[CCaprice]

Mm, oh that is good.

And celery is good with peanut butter.

So much for the diet concept!

 

[fire_breeze]

Seeing as I always leave a bunch of I thought I'd look up some facts about it....

You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss. Hmmm.....

Victorian etiquette required a man to kiss the back of a ladies hand.

A standard greeting in Europe is a kiss on both cheeks - could be two. . . could be four.

Longest kiss - 29 hours by contestants in the "Breath Savers Longest Kiss Challenge" in New York on March 24, 1998.

Longest underwater kiss - 2 minutes and 18 seconds in Tokyo, Japan, on April 2, 1980.

First movie kiss - John C Rice kissed May Irwin in the film called "The Kiss" (1896).

Most kisses in a single movie - 127 in the movie "Don Juan" (1927). Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor got all of those kisses from John Barrymore.

Longest movie kiss - 3 minutes and 5 seconds between Jane Wyman and Regis Tommey in, "You're in the Army Now" (1941).

It's illegal in Indiana for a mustached man to "habitually kiss human beings", in Hartford, Connecticut it's illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sunday, and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's a crime to kiss a stranger.

The scientific name for kissing is philematology. Of course they have a scientific name

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing. Time to beat that!

 

[MSH2]

I smell a great new diet book!!!

mmmmhhhmm could work Mushrooms and balanced meals to make sure you're not starving yourself literally. Could very well work

 

[fire_breeze]

So much for the diet concept!

 

[CCaprice]

mmmmhhhmm could work Mushrooms and balanced meals to make sure you're not starving yourself literally. Could very well work

Forget the well-balanced meals....people want a quick fix. Stick 'em on just mushrooms and celery for a bit - "you're guaranteed to lose weight!"

 

[CCaprice]

in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's a crime to kiss a stranger.

Did they have a problem with a Kissing Bandit?

 

[fire_breeze]

Did they have a problem with a Kissing Bandit?

I hope not!

 

[MSH2]

Forget the well-balanced meals....people want a quick fix. Stick 'em on just mushrooms and celery for a bit - "you're guaranteed to lose weight!"

Yeah, but crash diets never work

And besides, we'd have to set up the mushroom farm first to supply all our dieters

 

[CCaprice]

Yeah, but crash diets never work

And besides, we'd have to set up the mushroom farm first to supply all our dieters

I was just thinking of some fast cash....there are always people who buy into silly diets!!

 

[MSH2]

I was just thinking of some fast cash....there are always people who buy into silly diets!!

True and some swift cash would be handy right about now. It needs a catchy name though,. How about "Mush room in your pants in three easy weeks?"

 

[CCaprice]

True and some swift cash would be handy right about now. It needs a catchy name though,. How about "Mush room in your pants in three easy weeks?"

Love the name!!

 

[CCaprice]

Some mushroom trivia before I head out.

There are close to 40,000 varieties of mushrooms.

The official state mushroom of Minnesota is the morel.

The official state mushroom of Oregon is the Pacific golden chanterelle.

One portabella mushroom has more potassium than a banana. White and crimini mushrooms are also good sources of potassium. Potassium helps the human body maintain normal heart rhythm, fluid balance, and muscle and nerve function.

The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing!

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, claims to be the Mushroom Capital of the World.

 

[MSH2]

Love the name!!

All we need now is several thousand tons of horse poop, a huge shed on steroids to grow it in, and a printing press and we're all set. Buy a small Island perhaps. Australia, maybe

 

[fire_breeze]

True and some swift cash would be handy right about now. It needs a catchy name though,. How about "Mush room in your pants in three easy weeks?"

Oh that's great!

 

[fire_breeze]

The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing!

 

[smotherman]

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!

 

[desideratum]

oh wow I'm with you on the mushroom!

Most people have lost half their tastebuds by the time they turn 60

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

I smell a great new diet book!!!

I'll add to that

Fresh seafood is an excellent source of proteins, a good source of minerals, and some vitamins, and its is low in fats, cholesterol, and sodium. In general, seafood is one of the most nutritionally balanced foods. A seafood diet helps control weight and goes a long way toward preventing heart disease.
And it tastes good!
Not sure about the mushrooms and celery with it though?

 

[luv1]

It takes takes more energy to eat and digest Celery than you get from it. Also Mushrooms. You could eat mushrooms and celery and starve to death

And don't forget rabbit So if you have a rabbit and mushroom stew with chopped up celery. Your pretty fekd

 

[_Misty_]

The original filling in Twinkies was banana. It was replaced by vanilla-flavored cream during World War II, when the United States experienced a banana shortage.

 

[luv1]

Other nana facts. Nana's don't grown on trees. It's a herb. On a huge stem called a pseudostem. And they can walk.....that's the plant not nana's fruit

 

[luv1]

Also most banana plants have not has sex for 10,000 years.Almost every banana we eat are propagated by hand from a sucker of the existing plant, whose genetic material hasn't changed in 100 centuries.