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the Powerful Secret of Pop Rocks

By Ryan | Published: March 17, 2010

Pop Rocks combine candy with explosions in your mouth. Obviously a genius idea. It first popped up in 1975 and as soon as it caught on the urban legend evolved that eating Pop Rocks and drinking soda at the same time would cause death-by-stomach-explosion. The rumour was so widespread that the FDA (Food and Drug [...]

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Tastebuds: the fingers of your tongue

By Ryan | Published: March 12, 2010

In one of my mind wandering moments I got to wondering about tastebuds. The sense of taste evolved to protect us from poisons. As a rule of thumb, anything that tastes bitter is poisonous… given you eat enough of it. (pure cocoa is very poisonous to a dog but we would have to eat several [...]

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Beware cows with chainsaws

By Ryan | Published: February 17, 2010

Generally I try to avoid writing about politically-charged topics because the facts are difficult to navigate. Every potential source article may or may not have an agenda skewing its figures. My own goal for today is to do my part to help with some education about the food we shove in our collective faces, but [...]

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Try not to enjoy eating fish too much… or else!

By Ryan | Published: February 15, 2010

With the exception of salmon steaks, I’m really not much of a fish-fan. Thus, it’s easy for me to exhibit rational and reasonable self control when faced with an all-you-can eat seafood buffet. As such, I will never be accused of being an opsophagos. Thank goodness! In ancient Greece it was a terrible thing to [...]

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Chocolate, you are bitter but I still love you

By Ryan | Published: February 11, 2010

With Valentine’s day coming up, this promises to be a chocolaty weekend. I heart chocolate. But I won’t be blinded by my love… let’s look at the cold, hard, bitter chocolate facts. Theobroma Cacao (more commonly called cocoa) is an evergreen tree native to Central America. They grow to 60 feet tall in the wild, [...]

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Orange the fruit vs. Orange the colour

By Ryan | Published: January 29, 2010

I’m gonna let you finish your coffee, but orange juice is the best drink of all time. However, when picking out a good orange juice you must make sure you don’t accidentally get an orange drink. Orange juice, available in all finer refrigerators, comes from orange the fruit. Orange drink, available at all low-budget community [...]

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FACT: Sugar prevents ice cream from freezing solid

By Ryan | Published: January 14, 2010

At the conclusion of yesterday’s story, the Hamburg sandwich (aka: hamburger) had just began it’s rise to fame at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. At the same event another famous food was born… the ice cream cone. Not ice cream itself, mind you, just the cone. Apparently the guy at the booth ran [...]

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