Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I was... but then I'm Canadian... but then we all knew the dumb song as kids anyway. I'm just thinking them yanks loves some pasta.

oh, i definitely was. i never really thought about it as a kid, i just kind of thought it was an absurd rhyme, and plus, i loved macaroni, so two thumbs up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Philip_Dawe%2C_The_Macaroni._A_Real_Character_at_the_Late_Masquerade_%281773%29.jpg

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wait, are you american? a lot of matthews around here ...

i'm american and remember learning about the macaroni thing at a really young age. i think in school we had worksheets for different folk songs with the lyrics typed out and a little glossary to help us understand.

only recently learned that the fears of being bitten by a Black widow or brown recluse are extremely exaggerated and that even if you get bitten by one, the chances of even going to the hospital, let alone dying, are very low, and in the US, nobody has died from a black widow bite in 30 years.

also learned that reports of bites from brown recluses are high in areas that don't even have them.

which is not to say that there aren't those that have adverse affects to spider bites from these types of spiders, but that usually a little antivenom and you're fine.

I think the movie Arachnophobia misshaped my view of the danger of spiders as a kid.

maffew12 is Canadian and I'm Australian

too many matts

i once made a dinner mat
with elbow macaroni

you know what they say about dinner mats made out of macaroni.

just don't take it to a hot spring

we had that song too

even after seeing it as an adult, I've never really internalized that Arachnophobia was meant to be a delightfully creepy horror-comedy of sorts. the shots of the super-hybrid queen spider (or whatever) really got to 9-year-old me, I guess.

like I found Goodman's character funny but the chewed up dude at the beginning scared me

I think I read the movie tie-in novel first though lol

That there are no bridges across the Amazon https://www.livescience.com/why-no-bridges-over-amazon-river

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is Ski just an anglicisation of Skyr? (yogurt-wise)

Oooh

Wasn't it supposed to be Swiss (for some reason) and Alpine and, therefore, healthy (for some reason), a bit like Alpen?

it's the full-of-fitness food (where fitness means blobs of fruit)

my sister and i ate it with like ten spoons of sugar in it (even more full of fitness)

Yvonne = Ivan

Nothing to do with Skyr, marketing bs/genius.

Rather brilliant thread about Ski here. Big LOL at the dustbin analysis.

Okay, as requested, more history of weird stuff with food and logistics.

Let's talk about how Ski Yoghurt utterly dominated the 70s UK yoghurt wars, by understanding how humans work better than humans do.

Oh, and also through strippers.

Read on... /1 pic.twitter.com/5fQqn0AObx

— John Bull (@garius) July 30, 2021

pleased to discover that my sister and i were correct abt sugar and fitness (and that we were eating 14 spoonfuls of sugar per pot)

Georgie Born out of Henry Cow and Olivia Newton-John were cousins.

Dolly Parton is the godmother of Miley Cyrus.

That Al Franken is one of the gorilla transporting guys in Trading Places.

Just now, and I have owned both for decades:

"From nearly 50 years I own the albums, I never noticed this continuity between the two albums covers..."

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325128010_4192419900982537_506495545880088972_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=r-56ozKQgusAX8wd09f&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfB3pbDraO7EfMP4UmCh8XIEwY5bgml9GzbFm_GFcR3iJA&oe=63C2C91E

that's a new one to me too, wow!

OK my mind is blown to its foundations now

this. changes. everything

They are bboth by the same artist Roger Dean who Yes discovered through Osibisa.
So maybe it's intentional or maybe he was using the same art set up so had similar things likely to coincide. Not sure what else he had running across both sides of a gatefold.

Is that a front sleeve running onto the side of a back sleeve?
It's not an existing rock formation he's incorporated into his fictive mythical art or something is it?

That the line in Spandau Ballet's True is "I know this much is true" not "I know this march is true".

Alba. “This march”?

A journey to glory?

This smartch is true

I know this
Bud's for you

Was eating tacos al pastor last night and annoying my wife talking about the connection to shawarma through lebanese immigrants in Mexico and how the name translates to "shepherd style".

For some reason it had never occured to me that it's the same word as "pastor" in the sense of leading a flock.

so it's basically shepherd's pie?

fava beans are broad beans

'broad beans and a nice chianti' lacks a certain something

Also that you can make bread with them https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jan/18/beans-in-toast-uk-should-switch-to-broad-bean-bread-say-researchers

that's where I learned it!

Fava beans are a big area of interest in crop science rn, ppl have started brewing with them too which is significantly greener than just using cereals

I was reading about this yesterday - apparently faves/faba are same species as broad bean but different variety to the ones traditional in British cuisine.

https://hodmedods.co.uk/blogs/news/what-are-fava-beans-are-they-just-broad-beans

In US English however the name fava refers to fresh broad beans ... ?

can we have some US english people on here to adjudicate please

I call them fava beans. Might be a regional divide on the issue though

Noel Redding resigned from the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hadn't realised he'd left voluntarily. Thought Jimi was just into expanding his sound. That would explain why Mitch Mitchell was back playing with Hendrix a few months after Woodstock/Band of Gypsies a bit better..

I'm growing fava beans this year!! I wanted to make ful medames last year and couldn't find fava locally, either dried or canned. It made me get interested in growing and drying them. Experiment to be updated in May-June.