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    Food & Drinks 

    by
    Timmy Garth
    Published on 3rd September 2010 11:38 AM
    Categories:
    1. Food & Drink

    War without fire is like sausages without mustard.
    -King Henry V

    Smoking and Drinking 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 3rd September 2010 11:27 AM
    Categories:
    1. Food & Drink
    2. Current Event

    News of the Week
    For society’s sake, sin...
    “Please smoke and drink more,” Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kudrin urged citizens this week, explaining that higher consumption would lift tax revenues for spending on social services. “If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates,” Kudrin said. “People should understand: those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state.”
    Alcohol and cigarette consumption are already extremely high in Russia, where 65% of men smoke and even the average Russian consumes 18 litres of alcohol, mainly vodka, a year. Alcohol kills around 500,000 Russians each year, especially men, whose life expectancy is lower than it is in Bangladesh or Honduras. As the Russian saying goes: “There’s no such thing as an ugly woman. But there is such a thing as too little vodka.”






    Source: Artemis/Hunter's Tails

    Food & Drink 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 30th August 2010 10:24 PM
    Categories:
    1. Food & Drink

    The idea of sandwich was first created from a request by John Montangu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich. Apparently when he was in a middle of a game of cards and feeling quite peckish, he asked his servant to prepare a quick but appetising snack. What the servant came up with was slices of beef in between two chuncks of bread. The Earl loved the snack so much that he was often seen holding one. Ergo the concoction came to be known a sandwich.

    Rhubarb 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 5th August 2010 11:05 PM
    Categories:
    1. Food & Drink

    Did you know?

    Rhurbarb is actually a vegetable.

    Food & Drink 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 3rd August 2010 10:12 PM
    Categories:
    1. Food & Drink
    2. History

    Chewing gum

    Article from the Metro

    World's oldest chewing gum found



    This piece of 'gum' may have lost it's minty flavour

    Spitting out chewing gum on the street is a widely despised habit that can land you with a fine.
    But our tendency to discard the half-masticated blob appears to date back at least 5,000 years, it was revealed.
    The ancient equivalent of a Wrigley's Spearmint has been prised from the ground by a British archaeology student digging in Finland.
    The lump of birch bark tar dates back to Neolithic times and comes complete with Stone Age tooth prints.
    Sarah Pickin, 23, was among five British students volunteering at the Kierikki Stone Age Centre in Finland when she found the tiny, ancient blob.

    'I was delighted to find the gum and was very excited to learn more about the history,' she said.
    Neolithic people are thought to have chewed the bark tar to heal mouth infections – and also used it to glue broken pots together.

    The tree tar contains phenols which have antiseptic properties, explained Prof Trevor Brown, who is Miss Pickin's tutor at the University of Derby.

    The gum is to go on display at the centre in Finland.
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