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4 unusual facts about eating


Bolinus brandaris

Bolinus brandaris (originally called Murex brandaris by Linnaeus), and commonly known as the purple dye murex or the spiny dye-murex, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, an edible marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or the rock snails.

Coastal plain cooter

Coastal cooters are frequently exported for consumption and the pet trade, with about 60% wild caught individuals and 40% captive bred.

Componential analysis

Another example, being edible is an important factor by which plants may be distinguished from one another (Ottenheimer, 2006, p. 20).

Florida red-bellied cooter

Florida redbellies are commonly exported for consumption and the pet trade, with about 50% wild caught individuals and 50% captive bred.


Abandoned child syndrome

Sleep and eating disorders - malnutrition, starvation, disturbed sleep, nightmares.

Ana Marie Cox

In 2009 on an Amtrak train from New York to Washington Cox had a severe allergic reaction after eating a lentil salad.

Andover workhouse scandal

In August 1845 rumours began to circulate around Andover that inmates of the town's workhouse were being deprived of food and had taken to eating the marrow from horse, dog and cattle bones which they were employed to crush to produce bone meal fertiliser.

Arnold, Nottinghamshire

Due to the local topography Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagles, because they inhabit areas of rocky outcrops, which have formed cliffs; the nearest such location being Creswell Crags, some 20 miles north-west as the eagle flies, although the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge.

Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival

One of the Tour's regular participants, Heather Lauer, appeared on the 2009 Tour's stop in Pittsburgh; there, for thirty dollars, participants could compete in a bacon-eating contest and (without additional cost) taste bacon-samples from vendors.

Buddhist mummies

The mummies of monks (Sokushinbutsu) in Japan practised nyūjō (入定), which caused their own death by adhering to a wood eating diet made up of salt, nuts, seeds, roots, pine bark, and urushi tea.

Cinnamomum mercadoi

In 1668, the Jesuit Ignatio Francisco Alzina reported that eating it aided digestion and since then, it has been employed to treat digestive troubles.

Clarence Herschberger

There are accounts that Herschberger challenged Chicago's quarterback Walter Kennedy to an eating contest before a football game with the Wisconsin Badgers.

Clostridium perfringens

In May 2011, a man died after allegedly eating food contaminated with the bacteria on a transatlantic American Airlines flight.

Death Picks Cotton

Lucky and Luanne are talking about a restaurant, a teppanyaki steakhouse à la Benihana, where they are planning on eating that night.

Early 2012 Hong Kong protests

In January 2012, Ken Wai, a Hong Kong passenger, asked a Mainland Chinese woman and her child to stop eating on an MTR subway in Mandarin Chinese on a train bound for Mong Kok East Station.

Eating live animals

A YouTube channel called "Food for Louis" shows videos of Louis Cole eating live animals.

Esther Cardoso

To commemorate Gaia's opening, on the eve of the millennium, she co-directed A Millennium Night's Dream, a fourteen hour spectacle involving 84 actors, inspired by the mythical conflict between Dionysus (god of pleasure) and Pentheus (lord of reason) involving promenade performances, fire-eating, acrobatics, dance, poetry, and Cuban story-telling.

Exercise-induced nausea

A study of 20 volunteers conducted at Nagoya University, Japan associated a higher degree of exercise-induced nausea after eating.

Gluteal muscles

Poisoning by eating Lathyrus sativus Indian Pea or khesari dhal will lead to emaciation of buttock muscles (Neurolathyrism).

Grigory Vakulinchuk

Chief Officer Giliarovsky was using marines to threaten the sailors into eating the meat.

Habitual be

To be singing in this example means to sing habitually, not to be singing right now. In one experiment, children were shown drawings of Elmo eating cookies while Cookie Monster looked on.

Happy hour

When the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act were passed banning alcohol consumption, people would host "cocktail hours", also known as "happy hours", at a speakeasy (an illegal drinking establishment) before eating at restaurants where alcohol could not be served.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

How to be an Alien

The second part, "How to be a Particular Alien", describes particular occupations from Bloomsbury intellectual to bus driver, finishing with how to be a naturalised citizen, which includes the eating of porridge for breakfast, and alleging that you like it.

Isaac Stringer

Todd and his wife, Sivan Agam, are the Australian/ British alternative folk duo The April Maze; they have written a song about Stringer's boot-eating story called "The Bishop Who Ate His Boots".

John Bellers

Bellers is also quoted in a footnote in Chapter 23 of Das Kapital; "Labour is as proper for the body’s health as eating is for its living ... Labour adds Oyl to the Lamp of Life when thinking Inflames it".

Killer ape theory

Concerning the eating habits from then until now, Dart argues that there has always been an ambition to eating meat: grubs and insects, bigger mammals and even human flesh (i.e. distinctive cannibalism) are the results.

Lazy Sunday

The lyrics involve subjects that are "anything but hardcore," such as eating cupcakes from the Magnolia Bakery, searching for travel directions on MapQuest and buying tickets with $10 bills.

Man Eating Bugs

Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects is a non-fiction book by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio.

Marshawn Lynch

After Lynch was shown eating the candy during a nationally-televised game on December 5, 2011, Mars offered him a two-year supply of Skittles and a custom dispenser for his locker.

Obesity in France

Mireille Guiliano wrote the book French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure which explains why French women eating in the traditional way are less inclined to be obese than their American counterparts and shares French women’s secrets to staying slim while eating well.

Palm Cockatoo

They have also been seen eating fruit from Darwin Stringybark Eucalyptus tetradonta and Nonda tree as well as seeds from the Cocky apple tree, Beach almond and Black Bean tree.

Pareas carinatus

The keeled slug-eating snake, Pareas carinatus, is a species of snake in the Colubridae family.

Peggie Castle

Born Peggy Blair in Appalachia in Wise County in far southwestern Virginia, Castle was discovered by a talent scout while eating in a restaurant in Beverly Hills.

Polynesian rat

This rat also may have played a role in the complete deforestation of Easter Island by eating the nuts of the local palm tree, thus preventing regrowth of the forest.

Ramadan

In Kuwait, according to law number 44 of 1968 the penalty is a fine of no more than 100 Kuwaiti dinars, or jail for no more than one month, or both penalties, for those seen eating, drinking or smoking during Ramadan daytime.

Rendang

Overseas Minangkabau leave their hometown to start a career in other Indonesian cities as well as neighboring countries, and Padang restaurants, Minangkabau eating establishments that are ubiquitous in Indonesian cities, spring up.

Saccharin

In a clash that had career consequences, Wiley told President Theodore Roosevelt that "Everyone who ate that sweet corn was deceived. He thought he was eating sugar, when in point of fact he was eating a coal tar product totally devoid of food value and extremely injurious to health."

Sompura Salat

The community is vegetarian in diet and also avoid eating onions, garlic, white cucumber and lentils.

Soul Trade

When seeking information about the soul-eating demons the Kurgarru, Doyle initially suggests Angel contact Giles for information, but Angel asks Doyle to talk to Harry first as he is reluctant to contact anyone in Sunnydale unless he has to

Sudan Golden Sparrow

The Sudan Golden Sparrow is a highly gregarious and nomadic bird and will form mixed flocks with other seed-eating birds, such as Red-billed Quelea, and other sparrows.

Syrian jackal

Although the AV translates the word as fox, the behaviour described is more consistent with jackals, as shown in the books of Lamentations and Psalms in which references are made to the shu'al's habit of eating corpses in battlefields.

Tequila and Bonetti

Here he meets his new partners, Tequila (a large, burrito-eating French Mastiff), and Officer Angela Garcia (Mariska Hargitay), who joined the department after her policeman husband's death.

Terror in the Sky

Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree.

The Conquest of the Pole

Its most elaborate scene is one featuring a man-eating frost giant that attempts to eat the crew.

Towdie

The health bar can be replenished by finding and eating Amanita mushrooms scattered throughout the castle.

Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic

In various critical reviews, the work of German Joseph Beuys was referenced; a 1996 work by Sterbak portrayed her as a moth, eating up the clothes in his closet.

Whitchurch Canonicorum

Sir George Somers (1554–1610) was the Mayor of Lyme Regis and later Governor of The Somers Isles (Bermuda) he died "of a surfeit in eating of a pig", on November 9, 1610 in Bermuda.

Will Pearson

Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M's at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy".

Winnie the Pooh and Friends

Finally Humphrey puts all of the trash in a geyser (known as the Old Fateful) causing it to spill garbage everywhere and finally results with the hapless bear getting to clean up all of the garbage instead of eating his chicken cacciatore.

WJUS

In addition to its usual music programming, each Wednesday morning WJUS airs the "BodyLove" radio soap opera in which the characters deal with health problems with practical solutions and healthier eating.

Young and Dangerous

At the same time, Brother Fai Hung has the stuttering Smartie (Gigi Lai a.k.a Tania Sammy) carjack Ho Nam's Toyota MR2 and demands payment, but unfortunately she gets caught by Ho Nam and his friends and is punished by eating dozens of Chinese barbecue pork buns.


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