Factoids

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Some of Britain's best-known food brands are changing their packaging due to health concerns over boxes made from recycled cardboard. Researchers have found that toxic chemicals from recycled newspapers used in cardboard packaging are contaminating food.

I all I can say is, no sh!t Sherlock (them not you Geoff).

The chemicals used to bleach the inks out of newsprint is evil, in the last few years they have gotten better, but it is in my mind still better on the environment to use recycled papers only in areas where they don't need to bleach out the inks.

You would be surprised to know that a lot of products that say "Printed on Recycled paper" is BS, they print that on new pulp paper all the time, in fact they make a line of "New" paper that they colour grey, so it looks like recycled paper.

Isn't ecological product marketing fun?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Mortis

It was thirty years ago, so I'll go with coconut oil, I don't actually remember the oil, but the butter, mmmm yummy nastiness I have no idea what that stuff was made of, but it can't be healthy!

Yeah, look at you now!

[wannabee]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Researchers have found that toxic chemicals from recycled newspapers used in cardboard packaging are contaminating food.

Known carcinogens i.e. Polycarbonates and Phthalates, have been contaminating food via packaging for a long time. Probably always will. The trick is to know which ones are toxic.
Just happen to be doing a layout today on a chapter about toxins in packaging and other day to day items.

[orlok]

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by orlok

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Funny, the only word I had a hard time reading at my normal pace was "Total". wonder why that one word?

[orlok]

It's illegal to cross the Illonois border with a duck on your head.

[wannabee]

You yanks have some beauties. (I'd better check ours now)

In Illinois It is forbidden to fish while sitting on a giraffe's neck.

[kennyc]

Oh My this has turned into the joke thread.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Oh My this has turned into the joke thread.

Well they do say fact is stranger than fiction...

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by wannabee

Known carcinogens i.e. Polycarbonates and Phthalates, have been contaminating food via packaging for a long time. Probably always will. The trick is to know which ones are toxic.
Just happen to be doing a layout today on a chapter about toxins in packaging and other day to day items.

Interesting (non) factoid: Those are the mythological Greek demigoddess sisters, daughters of Polythene Pam, who were so ugly that Troy tried to toss them over the wall to the Greeks, along with 2 pigs and a chicken, in exchange for Helen.

[wannabee]

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war.

I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will.

You only get one George W Bush

[orlok]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Interesting (non) factoid: Those are the mythological Greek demigoddess sisters, daughters of Polythene Pam, who were so ugly that Troy tried to toss them over the wall to the Greeks, along with 2 pigs and a chicken, in exchange for Helen.

Phthalates, daughter to Phalatulence.

[DixieGal]

GREEN FOOD

1. If your lemon pie filling leaks through the shell and makes contact with the tin pan, both will turn green. Go buy some glass pie pans already. Sheesh.

2. To stop your boiled eggs from getting that green aura around the yolk, start them in cold water instead of boiling water, so that they heat together. Then, as soon as the water hits a rolling boil, turn off the heat and let the eggs sit on the stove for 15 minutes. This works about 50% of the time for me.

3. Fried green tomatoes are delicious.

[ApK]

Did you know that "factoid" means "item that looks like a fact but is not a fact."
It was coined to refer to made-up blurbs in gossips rags presented as true reporting.

Like all other "-oid" words, android, meteoroid, alkaloid, it means 'similar but not the thing...'

It's a pet peeve of mine that people routinely use it incorrectly to mean "little fact."

Why not "factlet" or "factette" or just "fact?"

When you say "Here's a factoid for you..." you are saying "Here's a lie..."

. . .Or are all the statements in this thread false, and I missed the gag....?

ApK

[Mortis]

Well heres a little "Factoid" people love to be told they are wrong

I couldn't help myself