Answers to the weekly newsletter teaser:
Email Date | Answer |
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17 Jul 2017 | A barberqueue. |
3 Jul 2017 | Fsh |
19 Jun 2017 | The other half. |
5 Jun 2017 | It only has one customer, but at least it serves a porpoise! |
30 May 2017 | A pork pie. An average portion of fish, chips and peas contains only 7.3% fat. By comparison, a pork pie has 10.8% fat. |
23 May 2017 | He was on a roll! |
15 May 2017 | Chicken Caesar salad |
8 May 2017 | The donut went to the dentist to get a filling, of course! |
10 Apr 2017 | Papier-mâché Easter eggs started being produced in England in the 18th century and then the first chocolate eggs appeared in the 19th century with the earliest ones being completely solid. |
20 Mar 2017 | The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765 she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy. |
20 Feb 2017 | There are more than 600 pasta shapes produced worldwide. |
13 Feb 2017 | In France and the United States Pancake day is called Mardi Gras which means 'Fat Tuesday'. |
6 Feb 2017 | A chocolate tip wookiee |
30 Jan 2017 | The cricket umpire Dickie Bird once wore an upturned Yorkshire pudding on his head like a flat cap for three overs of a test match and nobody noticed. |
23 Jan 2017 | Biting a wooden spoon whilst chopping an onion will stop your eyes from watering. |
16 Jan 2017 | We share 50% of our DNA with a banana. |
10 Jan 2017 | Peanuts can be used to make dynamite. |
03 Jan 2017 | Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago. |
05 Dec 2016 | It takes 50 licks to finish a single scoop of ice cream in a cone. |
28 Nov 2016 | Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie. |
21 Nov 2016 | Hiccups can be cured by dry swallowing one teaspoon of sugar. |
14 Nov 2016 | Mageirocophobia is the fear of cooking. |
7 Nov 2016 | Fat Rascals - originating in Yorkshire, they are a cross between a scone and a rock cake. |
31 Oct 2016 | Recipes for meatballs from the time of the Romans exist as evidence in an ancient recipe book written by Marcus Gavius Apicus (aka Apicius), who was born in 25 AD. His book is called "De re coquinaria libri decem (Cuisine in Ten Books)". |
24 Oct 2016 | The largest hamburger ever created was over 3.5 tonnes and was cooked for a burger festival in Wisconsin. |
17 Oct 2016 | Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day or about 350 slices per second. (Not each, we presume!) |
10 Oct 2016 | The world's laziest fish is the kipper! 🙂 |
04 Oct 2016 | Eskimo women cook their salmon using their dishwasher – see instructions! |
26 Sep 2016 | Pescetarians are vegetarians who eat fish. |
19 Sep 2016 | You can tell the approximate age of a salmon by counting the number of rings on its scales. |
12 Sep 2016 | Custard Creams are apparently the most dangerous biscuit! |
5 Sept 2016 | Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine. |