Monday 10 August 2020

Monday is fact day

 

What a lovely cold and wet day here in my part of the world hasn't stop raining since I got up, had to get Tasha to take Leo up to the top of the driveway. Well here ate this weeks facts true or not I do not know but here we go anyway.


Chop Suey is a very famous Chinese dish but it was invented by chefs in an American restaurant.


Sweet & Sour sauce another Chinese favourite doesn't exist in China, it was created by Chinese chefs living in the UK for the sweet tooth British, after they noticed their liking for tomato sauce aka ketchup.


The Academy Award stature “Oscar”is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick a librarian for the for motion picture arts and sciences commented that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar and the name stuck.


Honey does not spoil, honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found to be edible.


The Bible is the world's best selling book, it is also the most stolen book

6 comments:

  1. The Bible is the world's best selling book, it is also the most stolen book - YEAH good to know.

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  2. Amazing about the Bible...there are many religious people still in this world then.
    Didn't know about the sweet n sour.
    Good facts Jo-Anne.
    No rain here, driest July on record, but yes, it's August now, still dry.

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  3. Dearest Jo-Anne,
    Most of those Chinese dishes outside of China are not authentic and have been altered to the taste of the locals.
    Honey is a pure and natural substance so I'm not surprised about that!
    Hope the rain will stop.
    We got rain and thunderstorms all week in the forecast so that is not good for planning anything.
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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  4. I worked in a Chinese restaurant when I was in high school and none of what the chefs and owners ate is anything I've ever seen on a menu in an American Chinese restaurant.

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  5. Sandie.....And the book says "thy shal not steal"

    Margaret D.......I found them interestng

    Mariette.......I knew about th e honey, yeah I have to been to China so know that chinese food is very different

    Karen.....That doesn't surprise me

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