Honey will take on a bit of the flavor of whatever nearby plant life the bees are making use of. For example, if the hive is next to a stand of orange trees, the honey might have a slight citrus flavor.On a similar line, red, green, and blue honey was produced by bees in France last year, making everyone perplexed. It was later discovered that the cause was a nearby M&M processing plant.
Was the colored honey still edible or was the byproduct from the plant dangerous or toxic somehow and the resulting honey thus inedible? I'd buy a thing of green or blue honey.
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Indeed, Orthos. The story described the honey as "unsellable," but I'd buy at least one jar of each color. Hell, given the conversation value it wouldn't necessarily have to be edible. :)
(Given my own dietary habits, I really hope M&M production doesn't produce toxic waste.)
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Was the colored honey still edible or was the byproduct from the plant dangerous or toxic somehow and the resulting honey thus inedible? I'd buy a thing of green or blue honey.Honey will take on a bit of the flavor of whatever nearby plant life the bees are making use of. For example, if the hive is next to a stand of orange trees, the honey might have a slight citrus flavor.On a similar line, red, green, and blue honey was produced by bees in France last year, making everyone perplexed. It was later discovered that the cause was a nearby M&M processing plant.
From what I remember hearing when I saw this in the news last year, the honey was perfectly eddible and tasted just the same. In fact, some farmers were selling it.
However, the authorities finally determined they posed a potential risk, as the product was adultered.
I'd personally buy me a pack of funny coloured honey in a heartbeat!
However, the authorities finally determined they posed a potential risk, as the product was adultered.
BLUH.
I don't know... It doesn't look like it was the edible dyes themselves in the honey, but the waste byproducts from dye production. I wouldn't eat it.
Colour-party pooper!
Rainbow untaster!
Honey-baloney calumniator!
Tartrazine-sweetness backbiter!
<Shakes angry fist>
Fady Daoud, playing coach of the Swedish Division 4 club IFK Trollhättan (also my old neighbour) spent several months in his early twenties on trial with the Chilean team Colo Colo.
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the loss of the USS Thresher, a submarine. She went down 10 April 1963, with 129 on board.
Every year, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard holds a ceremony honoring those lost in the accident, reading all 129 names.
The accident led to the development of the SUBSAFE program, which went online in July 1963. Since then, no SUBSAFE certified submarine has been lost.
Blonde beards typically grow faster than darker beards.
Not all of them, though. :(
That the Romans had no word for Volcano.
mons flammas eructans (“mountain belching fire”) & Mons ignifer (fire-bearing mountain) are apparently the two terms for them.
Though Volcano is supposed to be drawn from Vulcan the Roman God of Fire.
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The discrimination of cows is known as vachism.
That "The Seven" from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire was inspired by the Catholic Church & Christianic Beliefs. Mostly the Concept of The Father, The Son, & The Holy Spirit.
The human body contains approximately 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels.To put it another way...
If you took a person's blood vessels and put them end-to-end in a straight line...
That person would die almost instantly.
LMFAO!
The hydrochloric acid found in the human stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.
Ewww! I thought the heartbeat-challenged only ate brains.
Jesus was a zombie.
-With very few exceptions, every word in Castilian that begins with "Al" (such as Alcaide-Warden, Aldea-Village, or Almohada-Pillow) is of Arabic origin.
-The first reccorded use of unmanned aerial vehicles occured during the First War of Italian Independence, in the mid-1800s, when Austria bombarded Venice with hot-air balloons. The operation was exceedingly ineffective.
-The use of vacuum as means of aerial buoyancy was postulated as far back as the Rennaissance. However, the structure required to keep a vacuum sufficiently large to cause a vessel to levitate has proven too heavy to be of any use. It is estimated that, weight notwithstanding, a vacuum flotation device would be 15% more efficient than helium.
The bobble on top of a Tam O'Shanter is called a toorie.
The bobble on top of a Tam O'Shanter is called a toorie.
Must resist making asinine post about David Cameron. Must resist making asinine post. ARRRRRRGH It's so, so hard!
Edit: Ah yes, we're supposed to provide some factoid as well... um... "Jeremy Hardy is a very funny man"?
The 1923 FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United has an official attendance figure of 126'047 spectators, although it's estimated to have actually been somewhere between 240'000 and 300'000 with another 60'000 locked outside the gates. Crowd control was taken care of by Police Constable George Scorey and his horse, Billy.
...Crowd control was taken care of by Police Constable George Scorey and his horse, Billy.
Was Billy the horse "invisible" by any chance?
The bit about him being Russia's greatest love machine is completely true, however.
Despite the fact that the death penalty for murder in the UK was abolished in the 1960s, piracy with violence or mutiny could still incur a death sentence up until 1998; a (regularly tested) gallows installed in Wandsworth gaol wasn't taken down until 1994.
The first patent for a water-closet* was taken out by the Edinburgh clockmaker Alexander Cummings in 1775.
In 1970, roughly 25% of the Scottish population didn't have an indoor toilet.
*Patent for, not the first water-closet.
New Zealand's first hospital was opened in 1843.
Which is pretty good, considering there was no real non-indigenous settlements here till 1840. Only sealers, missionaries, and whalers etc.
The bit about him being Russia's greatest love machine is completely true, however.
His mummified penis is preserved in a box somewhere, owned by a private collector.
Napoleon's penis too.
The U.S. Army actually has more ships than the U.S. Navy.
You gotta be kidding me.
Did you know that, by number of ships, Disney has the fifth largest naval fleet in the world?
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My new grandaughter can kick Cthulhu's a$$
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The world's oldest recorded joke is a Sumerian fart joke.
"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
Unfortunately it seems to have been funnier in Cuneiform.