Being eaten alive by hyenas is less painful than you would think.

[rachelmanija]

I recently had the delightful experience of dipping into a recipe book which includes instructions for surviving a cobalt bomb.

It has 380 pages, starting on page 5. Give me a number between 5 and 380, and I will give you a quote from that page.

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[mme_hardy]

57. Always 57.

Page 56 - 57 is just photos of a restaurant

[rachelmanija]

If I get to eating too much squirrel, I make sure to have it Belgian style as I never tire of it that way.

[minoanmiss]

82!

[redbird]

47

[rachelmanija]

In 1776 a man in Paris, France name Roze made the first CARTE, meaning card in French, listing the prices of individual foods served in a restaurant. He also made the first menu ever used.

[rachelmanija]

Muskrats eat only marsh roots and clams and their flesh reflects this mild, clean diet.

[landofnowhere]

163!

[rachelmanija]

A cornmeal pancake, avocado and coffee are today thought of as a very fine meal by natives of Mexico and Central America and it certainly is as far as I am concerned, especially with chocolate syrup on the corn pancake.

[yhlee]

9 !

[edenfalling]

365!

[minoanmiss]

Intriguing! I wonder if this one has any relationship to tje truth whatsoever.

[evelyn_b]

Give me some golden truth nuggets from page 222!

From a numbered list of steaks

[rachelmanija]

34. African steak. This is the thin layer of meat and fat sliced from the upper half of the ribcage. It is very delicious and the favorite of back country Africans in Africa.

[rachelmanija]

In Scandinavia apples were used to cure all nervous disorders.

[musesfool]

175!

[rachelmanija]

If you have any flowers in bloom in your yard or house, add a level teaspoon of yellow flower pollen.

[rachelmanija]

The expression "O.K." came from the New Orleans dock area. The French-speaking people of New Orleans said, "Aux Quais," when anything arrived or departed properly from the docks or even from railroad stations.

[evelyn_b]

Can't argue with that!

(no heaping teaspoons, though; that would be going too far)

[rachelmanija]

That one cracked me up because... WHAT FLOWERS? Who adds completely random and unknown plants to a SOUP???

[musesfool]

Heh. That actually *is* a (likely incorrect) theory about the origin of the expression.

[evelyn_b]

ANY FLOWERS! listen idk what your women's magazine overlords have been telling you, but the TRUE COOK takes his cues from his ENVIRONMENT e s p e c i a l l y where SOUP is concerned

let the LAND dictate what goes in your soup and you will always be able to live with THE LAND

it's COMMON SENSE

[sheliak]

77!

[telophase]

14!

[rachelmanija]

I did recognize a couple things as being either true or at least widely believed, but that one I hadn't heard before.

76 - 77 is mostly an engraving of Anton van Leeuwenhoek

[rachelmanija]

Now place the Bologna in a pan with enough boiling water to nicely cover it. Add seven level teaspoons of honey. If you have no honey, add seven level teaspoons of sugar.