Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Oops xpost to Old Lunch

Hush puppies used to be fried dough balls loaded with dog tranquilizer, iirc?

Welsh rabbit is the original, mahb is right. Which reminds me that all of these falsely-named foodstuffs confused the fuck out of me. How am I supposed to know Bombay duck isn't duck?!?!?!

Bombay duck isn't duck?!?!?!

Well that's 2 things I'm shockingly old to have learned today.

I don't think I've ever eaten that though.

Mince pies seem pretty straightforward, right? Like, a steak and ale pie has steak and ale in it. So a mince pie has mince in it. WRONG. (tbf I learned this one when I was a kid and not when I was "shockingly old" but still - whyyyyy?)

I only recently learned that the E Street Band is named after a street called E Street. I always thought it was an abbreviation for East Street Band, bolstered by hearing live recordings in which Bruce says the name and I thought he was saying East not E.

news flash: Sweetbreads are not bread, and sweetmeats are not meat.

Sweet Sweetback's song is not baadaaaaaaass

A mince pie did used to have mince in though (and still does in our house) because it uses raw mince rotted down to provide some of the sweetness in the mincemeat.

http://oakden.co.uk/mince-pies-1861-recipe/

I am told you can't buy Bombay Duck in the UK any more (certainly all our local takeaways stopped doing it) because of import health & safety laws or something.

Which was disappointing to my Dad, as was the time he, yes, bought "scallops" in a fish&chip shop, ordering several bags full as he couldn't believe how cheap they were. They're not a common thing round here but there must be at least one place in Wiltshire that did them 30+ years ago as I've heard the tale many times.

I'd always imagined they must be puffy and ridged like a scallop shell, but a quick image-google suggests they are p. much just discs of potato. Would still eat them.

yeah if the name does come from some supposed visually similarity that was a prodigious feat of imagination.

I think I was as old as 18 when someone had to tell me that Pub Landlord wasn't a real guy. Embarrassing.

that my fellow Americans are not really that committed to good government and democracy

http://i.imgur.com/nqIhP2z.jpg

- "I don't know why you keep calling them scallops. They're clearly potatoes."

- "Maybe you're right."

apparently in american football you can substitute players pretty much nonstop??

as soon as one gets a brain injury, yes

the strokes had a fifth album

that only boy dogs lift a leg to piss, because girl dogs just squat

sorry, i never had a dog

apparently in american football you can substitute players pretty much nonstop??

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 11:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p much a substitution every play

Girl dogs do lift a leg sometimes, depending what they want to piss on.

I have a girl dog who lifts her leg to pee, although it looks more like that Karate Kid pose.

Scallops is a contentious word down here too - theyre called scallops in NSW/QLD, and potato cakes in VIC.

Which always made me wonder, how to they differentiate potato scallops from actual ones, given those are also a thing in many chip shops (well, any where seafood's cheap and fresh anyway)

I love potato caaaakes

http://northeasthub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scallops.jpg

I just read that whenever you eat a fig, you're eating either a dead wasp or wasp larvae! I love figs and feel conflicted about eating them from now on.

^^ Debunked!

I've learned to stop worrying and love dates as much as I do, even though the occasional date I eat contains a (visible) small worm or larvae of some sort. Iranian dates are my fave, and I've seen it, but life's too short etc.

hmm, chance of either eggs and larvae or decomposed wasp, yeah feel a lot better about figs after that debunking

the female fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely
I never knew figs were so interesting!
I was reading this http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/06/08/the-disturbing-truth-about-figs/

Scallops (chip shop potato ones, not seafood) are called fritters up here.

that Ghetto Superstar interpolates a Rogers/Parton smash

armadillos carry leprosy

well, duh. how do you think people get leprosy in the first place?

Leprosy always seemed like an unfair tradeoff for people who are clever enough to have figured out how to fuck an armadillo.

I was a teenager when I found out that Ku Klux Klan were not a cartoon or a band but something more serious. My first guess would have been a cartoon about chickens. Clue Clucks Clan: Chicken Detectives.

I seen 3 Women a few weeks ago and its shockingly late to learn that Shelley Duvall is really beautiful.

platypuses have venom

That window seats on planes are preferable to aisle seats. Going against habit I got a window seat on a whim recently and realized how nice it is not to be constantly bumped or brushed against by aisle traffic

That Grandmaster Flash didn't have anything to do with White Lines or The Message.

+ can look out of the window. At the age of 37, after around 100 flights, the novelty of WE'RE IN THE FUCKING SKY hasn't worn off.

xp

I have a weak bladder, so I always prefer aisle seats, it's awkward to wake up some random person who's trying to sleep so I can pee.

if you pee on them they will prob wake up too

F

I thought 10cc was either a punk band or krautrock until like 3 months ago

I used to think if you had an acoustic guitar,

John belushi would smash it

and i would applaud him

That time Colin Hay was on Scrubs

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2945187/dr-cox-pulls-a-belushi-o.gif

I learned very recently that Vancouver is all the way out west... I just thought it was close to Toronto or something. idk fuck

And the weird part is that you live in Etobicoke.

i learned that "Toonrot" is an anagram for Toronto

Vancouver is Canadian Seattle. Or vice versa

Only figured out upon hearing it today (probably because I never paid anything but peripheral attention to the song before) that Adam Duritz is the second voice on '6th Avenue Heartache'.

Yeah, I don't really care, either.