Dimitri wrote:
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> 1. Were chickens in the old days "Free Range or Cage Free"?

In the old days they were pteradons and they carried off unwary small
children. We hunted them down with clubs. Clubs don't work all that
great against critters that fly. That's why we had to domesticate the
critters.

> 2. When did food stop being organic?

Salt is food. Salt is not organic. So that happened a really long time
ago. QED.

> 3. Were spices used to mask (cover-up) spoiled food?

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So spice that pickle
juice early.

> 4. Does nature genetically modify foods?

That didn't start happening until Darwin figured it out!

> 5. Why did Ale stop being a breakfast drink?

It did? Right! Somewhere after college, somewhere before getting
married.

> 6. Do we really like turkey of just the taste of poultry seasoning?

Chortle. That's for the folks who want the white meat. I'll go with
the thigh meat that has flavor.

> 7. Was the first person to eat an artichoke starving?

Or crazy. But that's nothing compared to making tequila out of wormy
cactus. Or leaving fish to rot and calling it luktefisk.

> 8. When reading the old testament it occurred to me that God must love
> the smell of barbeque, True?

Actually, that's the Illiad more than the Old Testament. Achilles
putting the fat into the fire so the smoke would rise to Olympus.

We moderns know that the god(desse)s don't have physical bodies so they
are actually sharing our experiences not actually doing the smelling
themselves. So you dam betcha the god(desse)s love the smell of que as
much as I do.

> 9. Did the Dutch really invent the Dutch Oven.

And why do the Pennsylvania Dutch speak German not Dutch?

> 10. Does salad really come from the French word for "salted"?

It does?

> More?

How did Vikings get Spam to eat when Hormel had not yet been granted a
corporate charter? Bloody Vikings!

Tack is the stuff used to ride horses. No wonder sailors never liked
hard tack.

Goat cheese, apple cider, baby food, pork sausage, spinach soufle'.
Which one of these does not go with the others?

I'm wheat intolerant - Foods made with wheat give me indigestion and a
bunch of other symptoms. When I eat Krispy Kreme donuts I don't get
indigestion or any of the other symptoms (except breaking out in fat,
sigh). What does that say about the quality of ingredients used by
Krispy Kreme?