Tag: featured
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This Food is Related to Poison
Have you heard about the poison Nightshade? You might be as surprised as me to know that common food such as potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, tobacco and some peppers are considered Nightshade vegetables. Plant families are groups of food that have similar characteristics. Look at a potato flower and a Nightshade flower the resemblance is striking.…
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Spam and Eggs, Spam and Ham?
SPAM is probably the most unusual, popular food item I’ve ever seen. It’s eaten with American-Asian Cuisine, fried on a pan and some even just eat it straight out of the can. There are SPAM museums, and collectors cans that surround shelves of SPAM lovers world-wide. So what’s the deal with Spam? Where did it…
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Snow Ice Cream Topped with Metal?
Growing up in the Midwest, snow ice cream was something I always looked forward to. All us kids would go get a plastic gallon bag, fill it with snow, salt, sugar, and vanilla and then mix it all up for a yummy dessert. This winter, being especially frigid across the country snow ice cream was…
