Quick Quirk Quiz: In the Kitchen
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Have you ever considered the items that are crammed into your kitchen cupboards and cabinets? Behind every box of cereal, every utensil, and every sauce a story waits to be told. Test your knowledge of common kitchen items with these 28 true tales of culinary origins.
Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen
Janet Spencer:Trivia Queen of the UniverseRoyal Ruler of Useless InformationMaster of Arcane Knowledge and Extraneous LoreKeeper of Forgotten Facts and Startling StatisticsFreelance Hysterics * Creative Profanities * Quantum PerplexitiesJanet Spencer was born in 1960 to a poor white sharecropper in Illinois. At 12, she slipped aboard a southbound freighter headed for Australia, where she was further raised by a pack of wild dingoes. Naturally curious and totally obsessed with the minor details of life, she traveled to London to join the Royal Astronomical Society to learn more of the world and the universe. However, the RAS had a long-standing ban against allowing in poor white sharecroppers half raised by wild dingoes, so she instead camped outside and counting the bricks making up the snobby institution. This was a pivotal experience for her. Finding there were exactly 17,431 bricks started her on her lifelong quest for small details, amazing truths, and petty coincidences. The Trivia Queen claimed her crown!Since then, she has been roaming the world from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, counting bricks, observing small insects, and measuring the average number of grains in a typical salt shaker. With such a vast storehouse of trivial knowledge, she now embarks on a new quest: to share this information with her fellow humans - stumping experts, amazing laymen, and bringing wide-eyed blank stares to all those around her. She is the author of several books including "Montana Trivia" and "Yellowstone Trivia" published by www.RiverbendPublishing.comJanet Spencer spends her spare time serving as chairwoman of the Associated Association of Associated Associations, playing with spatulas, and conversing with ducks.
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Quick Quirk Quiz - Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen
IN THE KITCHEN
The Quick Quirk Quiz
The Surprising Stories, Hidden History,
and Unusual Origins Behind Familiar Things
By Janet Spencer, Trivia Queen of the Universe
Royal Ruler of Useless Information
Master of Arcane Knowledge & Extraneous Lore
Keeper of Forgotten Facts & Startling Statistics
Published by Janet Spencer at Smashwords.com
Copyright 2009 Janet Spencer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Goddess of Grain
Fried Flakes
Perfect Porridge
Boiled Squashed Wheat
Innovative Oats
Great Grape Juice
A Barbarian Plant
Canned Grease
A Milk Merger
A Wild Apple
An Old Lady’s Orchard
A Chinaman’s Cherries
Pineapple Paradise
An Australian Nut
A Precious Plant
An Essential Mineral
The Salt Seller
A Spicy Sauce
A Fermented Flavor
A Signature Sauce
Tomato Paste from Tomato Waste
Sandwich Sauce
Rough and Raw
A Musical Group and a Miracle Mixer
Carl’s Food Chopper
A Threaded Neck
Plastic Product Parties
Soapy Steel
Goddess of Grain
In Greek mythology, Demeter was the goddess of grain and fertility. Her name came from the words meaning ‘earth mother’. She nourished young things, the green earth, the changing seasons, and the cycle of life and death. The Romans later adopted the goddess, changing her name to Ceres. Her Roman name probably came from the root word ker meaning ‘to grow’ which also gives us ‘create’ and ‘increase’. She was typically depicted holding a basket of flowers or fruit and wearing a garland of grain. Ceres had many minor gods acting as her assistants, with each one presiding over a different aspect of agriculture: one to turn fallow land, one to prepare the fields, one to plow the furrows, one to sow, one who weeded, one who thinned, one who harvested, one who carted, one who stored, and one who