 | #1289 The results of a study
About 85% of women are responsible for cooking the family dinner, and 84% wish they didn,t have to.
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| #1288 Thin People Don`t
By Barbara Florio Graham
From McCall,s, June, 1983
I read every diet I can get my hands on. I even follow their suggestions. But eventually, inevitably, I always get fat again. Now, at last, I,ve ... |
| #1287 A great fruit cake recipie
You,ll need the following: a cup of water, a cup of sugar, four large eggs, two cups of dried fruit, a teaspoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of salt, a cup of brown sugar, lemon juice, nuts, and a bottl... |
| #1286 I have a Microsoft waiter
Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I,ll be your Support Waiter. What seems to be the problem?
Patron: There,s a fly in my soup!
Waiter: Try again, maybe the fly won,t be there this time.
Patron... |
| #1285 Food fight in a store
In February 1994 in New Brighton, Minn., a 32-year-old man and his 24-year-old girlfriend were arrested after a food fight in a grocery store. After arguing loudly, the couple began throwing sweet pot... |
| #1284 An error publishing an article
From Reuters News Service:
Canada,s Ottawa Citizen newspaper recently printed a recipe for Chanterelle Lemon Pasta in its food section, calling for one cup of Chanterelle mushrooms. They even provi... |
| #1283 Studying the twinkies
In an effort to clarify questions about the purported durability and unusual physical characteristics of Twinkies, we subjected the Hostess snack logs to the following experiments:
Exposure
A Tw... |
| #1282 Sorry for eating the peanuts
A man visits his aunt in the nursing home. It turns out that she is taking a nap, so he just sits down in a chair in her room, flips through a few magazines, and munches on some peanuts sitting in a b... |
| #1281 Why Engineers Don`t Write Recipe Books
Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Ingredients:
1. 532.35 cm3 gluten
2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22... |
| #1280 Ice cream flavor galore
A January 1994 Reuters News Service story on Manuel Oliveira,s ice cream shop in Merida, Venezuela, reported on his 567 flavors, including onion, chili, beer, eggplant, smoked trout, spaghetti parmesa... |
| #1279 Purchasing power of burgers
Cologne, May 27 dpa - The U.S. dollar is undervalued against the Deutsch-mark based on how many "Big Mac" hamburger sandwiches the two currencies can purchase, said one of Germany,s leading institutes... |
| #1278 Purchasing mailing lists
With more than twelve billion catalogs being mailed annually, it,s little wonder that marketers are distributing mailing lists anywhere possible. In one particularly cruel move, the proprietors of a c... |
| #1277 Food one-liners
The snack bar next door to an atom smasher was called "The Fission Chips."
On April Fools Day, a mother put a fire cracker under the pancakes. She blew her stack.
A new chef from India was fired... |
| #1276 The family of tomatoes
A family of three tomatoes were walking downtown one day when the little baby tomato started lagging behind. The big father tomato walks back to the baby tomato, stomps on her, squashing her into a re... |
| #1272 Constantly complaining about the temperature
A customer was bothering the waiter in a restaurant. First, he asked that the air conditioning be turned up because he was too hot, then he asked it be turned down cause he was too cold, and so on for... |
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