Like many Christian holidays, Easter supplants a pagan holiday. The pagan holiday being thrust down here is the celebration of Spring, once called “Eostre”. Along with Spring, the pagans used to celebrate fertility and new life. Nothing wrong with any of that, right? It is interesting that they were celebrating new life while those of …
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St. Patrick’s Day
Church in the morning, pub fights in the evening. In the middle of the day we’ll have an Irish stew which is lamb and potatoes stew. On the side there’s a bacon cabbage dish which is delish. We may have soda bread, if everyone feels like it. For dessert there will be apple cake and …
Strange Product Names
Along with those products which were unknowingly titled in such a way as to distance potential purchasers, there are products which are given names translating to something utterly bizarre in certain languages. Bite The Wax Tadpole is a famous example. The product it came from is not worth mentioning anyway, but even less so since …
The Day After
Happy Thanksgiving indeed! What’s really important here is what you’re having for dinner the day after Thanksgiving. You want Mexican food. You know it’s true. You’re tired of turkey and potatoes and all the weird side dishes that your family loves, like the shrimp-flavored craisin bread uncle Henry brings every year but almost nobody eats. …
Prebiotic Pepsi
The swiftest way to get there is this: prebiotics benefit probiotics. Probiotics are generally thought of as the bacteria which best suit the human anatomy. Or, in other words, they are good bacteria. Prebiotics are the fiber that is good for the good bacteria. Pepsi is considering adding prebiotics to a new line of their …
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