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Post by Don Cuevas on Sept 18, 2013 0:36:56 GMT
Swedish researchers make startling baking discovery. |
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Post by htmb on Sept 18, 2013 0:39:48 GMT
;D ;D ;D
One more thing for vegetarians to worry about.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 18:47:38 GMT
Nothing surprises me ever since I learned as a child that perfume is made out of whale puke .
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Post by lagatta on Sept 25, 2013 15:04:38 GMT
I've eaten beaver (please, no jokes).
Here is a funny about Catholic dietary rules though. I knew this story (duck was also a Catholic "fish"), but Wikipedia provides details.
In dietary law
In the 17th century, based on a question raised by the Bishop of Quebec, the Roman Catholic Church ruled that the beaver was a fish (beaver flesh was a part of the indigenous peoples' diet, prior to the Europeans' arrival) for purposes of dietary law. Therefore, the general prohibition on the consumption of meat on Fridays during Lent did not apply to beaver meat.[62][63][64] The legal basis for the decision probably rests with the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, which bases animal classification as much on habit as anatomy.[65] This is similar to the Church's classification of the capybara, another semi-aquatic rodent.[66]
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 16:03:59 GMT
Puffins were apparently excluded from dietary restrictions as well, for the same reasons.
#133 of things I learned from the British quiz show QI.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 16:45:43 GMT
Well, when I visited a Vietnamese Muslim village, the village elders were proud to say (in order to ward off any comments of what we were seeing) "we have special rules so we're allowed to eat pork and drink beer."
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Post by tod2 on Sept 25, 2013 17:30:06 GMT
The 'adjusters' of the real rules need to consult the scientific world......
Now for another QI question: What are young newly hatched Puffins called?
Kerouac, I thought it was the contents of a Sperm Whale?! What are they using that for?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 18:58:05 GMT
Tod, I think you and Kerouac are talking about the same thing. Ambergris is used in perfumery.
Pufflings!
(Are we going to have to start a QI thread? please?)
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Post by tod2 on Sept 26, 2013 6:37:19 GMT
Oh Lizzy! You are too smart....pufflings is correct or even chicks!
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 26, 2013 21:10:43 GMT
There was a certain amount of female fluttering when Iolo Williams, a presenter on the BBC's Springwatch nature programme, was persuaded to repeat the word "puffling" in his soft Welsh accent - very close to the camera.
Several times.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 27, 2013 0:56:43 GMT
Did he outdo his compatriot Tom Jones?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 30, 2013 1:00:40 GMT
startling baking discovery Don't some very high end (ahem) perfumes contain something exuded from the butt of the civet cat? I believe the cat is tied up & its end whipped to get it to give up the goods. perfume is made out of whale puke Mmm ~~ I think it's a waxy exudate from the head. the general prohibition on the consumption of meat on Fridays during Lent did not apply to beaver meat.[62][63][64] The legal basis for the decision ... I read somewhere that it was the tail of the beaver that was exempt, using the logic that it spent most of its time in the water, like a fish. (crushed that I couldn't work some version of "exude" into that sentence)That is just about the most adorable word for anything I ever heard, & I haven't even heard it in a Welsh accent yet. And Lizzy -- you fairly exude scholarship. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2013 10:48:25 GMT
Mmm ~~ I think it's a waxy exudate from the head. That would make it whale snot. |
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