Do you like vanilla?
A relative of mine recently shared an article from the Food Babe ("Do You Eat Beaver Butt?") that claimed that castoreum, a secretion from a gland near the anus of beavers is used in food production and is listed as "Natural Flavor" on ingredient lists.
My skeptic radar went off and to the Googles I went!
In about 27 seconds I had proof that this was BS.
So many debunks were already out there.
I was so happy that I didn't even post my evidence as a reply.
Am I growing up?
Probably not, because I still giggled like an 11-year old when I read these quotes from the National Geographic article:
“I lift up the animal’s tail,” said Joanne Crawford, a wildlife ecologist at Southern Illinois University, “and I’m like, ‘Get down there, and stick your nose near its bum.'”
and
“You can milk the anal glands so you can extract the fluid,” Crawford said. “You can squirt [castoreum] out. It’s pretty gross.”
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All this reminded me of a story on This American Life from a few years ago regarding doubles and substitutes. One of their correspondents spent several weeks tracking down the truth of an urban legend involving counterfeit/imitation calamari.
Tonight's Question:
What non-seafood material was rumored to be standing in as calamari in that episode?
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| Mellie T. |
You've probably read about Mrs. Trump's speech by now.
It turns out that Chris Christie has the numbers reversed - 93% of her speech was "borrowed."
Can you guess the original source of these other bits of her speech?
It's tonight's pre-show quiz - prize for all entries! Gooder prize for the randomly selected winner!
- "I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?"
- "Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."
- "I can't believe I just gave my panties to a geek."
- "The sole ultimate factor
in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however
repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our
institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous."
- "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
- "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn."
- "Of our relation to all
creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and
chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly
be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of
life."
- "Wolfman has nards!"
- "We must realize that
man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that
civilization is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast
sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilization, we
must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine
biological principles."
- "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
- "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
- "Don't expect it to tango; it has a broken back."
- "The
sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must
learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect
ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious
and ruinous."
- "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
Answers IN PERSON, after 7:50.
Remember, this is the NO-BOOZE WINNING non-quiz.
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Excelsior!
-tpn!
Frank's Place is at 594 W. Market St. Akron OH 44303
Their Facebook Page.
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Last Call USA NEOhio - Facebook
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Last Call USA's Weekly HINTS (SERIOUSLY - Check the HINTS)
Last Call USA's Trivia League
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ROB at Last Call
You are HERE.
Our company store.
I published a book!
Remember, this is the NO-BOOZE WINNING quiz.
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Excelsior!
-tpn!
