Cutting onions releases a gas that causes tearing due to irritation in the eyes. This gas is diluted and removed by tears. Fried tarantulas in Cambodia were first eaten by starving people during Khmer Rouge rule and have become a tourist delicacy. Eskimo ice cream from Alaska is neither icy nor creamy - it is a mixture of boiled and shredded whitefish, shortening, sugar, and berries that is kept cool or frozen.
4. Cutting onions releases a gas
which causes a stinging sensation
when it comes into contact with
your eyes. Your body produces
tears to dilute the irritant and
remove it from your eyes.
7. They were first discovered by
starving Cambodians in the
bloody, brutal days of the
Khmer Rouge rule and have
gone from being the vital
sustenance of these people to
a delicacy tourists come far
and wide to try.
15. Eskimo ice cream (akutaq)
from Alaska
is neither icy, or creamy !
16. AKUTAQ RECIPE
Ingredients
•1 large whitefish
•Vegetable Shortening
•Sugar
•Berries (blue or blackberries)
Boil whitefish until done, Debone all fish and
squeeze all liquid from fish so it's dry and fluffy,
Then add the shortening and stir it in well. Then
add sugar to taste. Add berries, Keep cool or
freeze.
17. Only food that does not spoil:
honey !!!
“Sugar, ahhh
honey honey
you are my
candy girl
and you got me
wanting you.”