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Wikipedia is informative, delicious

Posted Dec 5th 2007 11:32AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Restaurants

Here's an odd story from a restaurant in Beijing. Look at the photo above. Notice one of the choices? Mmmm...stir-fried Wikipedia, with pimentos!

That's what's on the menu at a restaurant Jim Benson went to. He surmises that when the restaurant was coming up with the menu, they needed info on an ingredient in the dish and one said to "look it up in Wikipedia" and this is the result. It was found on the menu of another place too.

Now, who's up for some Craigslist smothered in onions?

[via Boing Boing]

Grilled cheese sandwich wiki and some cheesy trivia

Posted May 2nd 2006 6:02PM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Lunch, Cheese, Recipes, Frying, Grilling, Comfort Food

Wikis, if you're not familiar with them, are online pages that anyone can edit. This leads to comprehensive definitions on just about any subject from applications like the Wikipedia. For a recipe, this means that all the collective knowledge of cooks can be added in to one central location. Does it make the perfect recipe? The directions for making a grilled cheese sandwich at WikiHow look pretty clear and even though the instructions are simple, keep in mind that every great chef (and hungry cook) must start somewhere. If the stove top method is too conventional, you can also try using a George Foreman grill or an iron.

Speaking of grilled cheese, here are a few facts to tide you over while you wait for your sandwich to be done:

Americans make 2.2 billion grilled cheese sandwiches at home each year.
The most popular two cheeses for grilled cheese are cheddar and American, though Gouda, Swiss and Gruyere are also quite popular, especially in Europe.
30% of Americans name the grilled cheese as their favorite homemade sandwich
Grilled cheese often has add-ins and the most common is tomato, followed by bacon/ham, potato chips and pickles, while other variations include the French croque-monsieur and croque-madame.

Gorp...what do you call it?

Posted Apr 18th 2006 5:32PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: Snacks, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Chocolate, Fruit, The History of..., Did you know?, America, Europe

It appears that I've made it through the 24 years of my life without having encountered the word gorp. You can imagine my surprise when, on a recent car trip, my girlfriend referred to the bag of peanuts, raisins and chocolate chips that I packed, asking "Where's the gorp?" Gorp came up in conversation again the other day, so I decided to do a little research. The origins of the word are cloudy at best. According to a Wikipedia entry, gorp may be a "backronym," an acronym created to match the letters of a word that already exists, standing for Good Old Raisins and Peanuts or Granola Oats Raisins and Peanuts. I'm skeptical of the latter because granola generally contains oats anyway, so that would be redundant. Apparently gorp is also known as scroggin in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Iraq. Supposedly, this may also be an acronym.

[Photo: Wikipedia]

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Gorp...what do you call it?

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