Sometimes, flipping through the channels, it seems like there’s nothing on worth watching. While, the quantity of our television programing is ever expanding, the quality usually isn’t. However, there is still hope! Occasionally, someone puts out a good documentary. Here’s some of the better ones I’ve seen in the last year [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 19, 2009
Tasty Testes
Rocky Mountain Oyster. Montana Tendergroin. A bull testicle by any other name would taste as sweet.¹ Some certainly think so. While many are made squeamish by the idea of eating bull balls, others gather together in what have been dubbed “testicle festivals” for the express purpose of devouring them.
The most famous [...]
April 9, 2009
John Brown Hit Me With a Ruler
Today, I got to thinking about a song kids used to sing when I was a kid that goes, “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, Teacher hit me with a ruler.” Specifically, I was wondering who wrote the song, because the version I learned was long and fairly involved. Surely it could not have been the product of [...]
April 4, 2009
Would I Lye?
A couple of months ago I was perusing an Asian market when much to my delight I found the innocuously named Preserved Duck Eggs whose label is shown above. These eggs were preserved using salt and lye. Other names for eggs preserved using this and similar methods are century eggs, 100 year eggs, [...]
