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May 9th is National Shrimp Day !🍤🍤

John-Bryan Hopkins

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Here are today’s five food finds about Shrimp:

  • The pistol shrimp can deliver an explosive attack hotter than the surface of the sun and loud enough to rupture a human ear drum.

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  • Every shrimp is actually born male, and some develop into females.

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  • Some shrimp are actually capable of glowing in the dark.

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  • Shrimp can vary in size from 1/2 inch to 12 inches.

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  • In some areas, shrimp served with the head still attached is considered a delicacy.

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Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1785 The beer-pump handle was patented by Joseph Bramah.

1845 Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was born. A Swedish scientist and inventor. Among his inventions was the centrifugal cream separator and a vacuum milking machine.

1914 C. W. Post (Charles William) died. He founded the Postum Cereal Co. in 1895 (renamed General Foods Corp. in 1922) to manufacture Postum cereal beverage; 1897 Grape Nuts, 1904 Post Toasties (originally called Elijah’s Mana).

1992 The record brown trout weighed over 40 pounds and was caught in Arkansas.

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May 9th is National Shrimp Day !

John-Bryan Hopkins

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Here are today’s five food finds about Shrimp:

 

  • The pistol shrimp can deliver an explosive attack hotter than the surface of the sun and loud enough to rupture a human ear drum.

 

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  • Every shrimp is actually born male, and some develop into females.

 

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  • Some shrimp are actually capable of glowing in the dark.

 

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  • Shrimp can vary in size from 1/2 inch to 12 inches.

 

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  • In some areas, shrimp served with the head still attached is considered a delicacy.

 

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Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1785 The beer-pump handle was patented by Joseph Bramah.

1845 Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was born. A Swedish scientist and inventor. Among his inventions was the centrifugal cream separator and a vacuum milking machine.

1914 C. W. Post (Charles William) died. He founded the Postum Cereal Co. in 1895 (renamed General Foods Corp. in 1922) to manufacture Postum cereal beverage; 1897 Grape Nuts, 1904 Post Toasties (originally called Elijah’s Mana).

1992 The record brown trout weighed over 40 pounds and was caught in Arkansas.

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Cooking Proverb

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but it only takes one to burn it.” Madeleine Bingham, ‘The Bad Cook’s Guide’

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Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

John-Bryan Hopkins

“A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.”~ Dean Koontz

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And The Bacon Industry Would Collapse

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”~Doug Larson

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Lean On Me

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Drinking beer doesn’t make you fat, It makes you lean…. Against bars, tables, chairs, poles…”~Chevy Chase

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A Delicious Endeavor

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Cutting stalks at noontime.  Perspiration drips to the earth.  Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes?  ~Chang Chan-Pao

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Beautiful

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Did you ever stop to taste a carrot?  Not just eat it, but taste it?  You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.  ~Astrid Alauda

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Doesn’t Taste as Good Either

John-Bryan Hopkins

Kissing don’t last; cookery do!  ~George Meredith

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Maybe if They Had Prongs

John-Bryan Hopkins

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing.  Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?  ~Bill Bryson

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My Dog’s Not Picky

John-Bryan Hopkins

Recipe:  A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don’t own, to make a dish the dog wouldn’t eat.  ~Author Unknown

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Immortality

John-Bryan Hopkins

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we’ll live forever.  Then we spend the rest of the day living like there’s no tomorrow.  ~Lee Iacocca

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Miss Piggy’s Words of Wisdom

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Never eat more than you can lift!” ~Miss Piggy

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Words of wisdom

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”

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Because I Eat It Last

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Perhaps the ripest peach is highest on the tree for a reason.”~ James Whitcomb Riley

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The Big Cheese

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese”~Billie Burke

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I Can't Believe It's Not Heart Attack!

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Eat butter first, & eat it last; live till a hundred years be past.”~Old Dutch proverb

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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Heart Attack!

John-Bryan Hopkins

“Eat butter first, & eat it last; live till a hundred years be past.”~Old Dutch proverb

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Never Enough

John-Bryan Hopkins

“One martini is all right. Two are too many, & three are NOT enough. “~James Thurber

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Pocket-Size

John-Bryan Hopkins

Condensed milk is wonderful.  I don’t see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.  ~Fred Allen

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Sweet Dreams

John-Bryan Hopkins

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven’t thought of in 30 years.  Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas.  All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.  ~Robert Brault

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Savor the Moment

John-Bryan Hopkins

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.  ~Henry David Thoreau

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Makes Everything Delicious

John-Bryan Hopkins

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.  ~Cervantes

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More Reliable Too

John-Bryan Hopkins

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly.  Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.  ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Hambergicus

John-Bryan Hopkins

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.  ~Charles Kuralt

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Sense of Purpose

John-Bryan Hopkins

We plan, we toil, we suffer – in the hope of what?  A camel-load of idol’s eyes?  The title deeds of Radio City?  The empire of Asia?  A trip to the moon?  No, no, no, no.  Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.  ~J.B. Priestly

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Life Free

John-Bryan Hopkins

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.  ~James Beard

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Keep on Marchin'

John-Bryan Hopkins

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life.  But I go marching on.  ~George Bernard Shaw

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Keep on Marchin’

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life.  But I go marching on.  ~George Bernard Shaw

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God Bless America

John-Bryan Hopkins

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?  ~Lin Yutang

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Builds an Enduring Stomach

John-Bryan Hopkins

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.  ~Martin H. Fischer

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