James sent me a link last week of the Guinness world-recording breaking 'longest pizza' made in Italy for Milan's expo 2015 world's fair. Wishing to know more, i backtracked the story to find a video of the cobbled-together-5-pizza-ovens, which baked the nearly mile-long pizza in 18 hours (or 3 minutes per meter). As the official Guinness site states, " Made using 1.5 tonnes of mozzarella cheese and two tonnes of tomato sauce, the pizza weighed in at 5 tons and was made in 18 hours by over 60 chefs. Over 35,000 slices were cut for visitors to the Expo. Over three hundred metres of pizza were given to the foodbank Banco Alimentare to be redistribueted to charitable organizations that assist the poor and the needy. ", and that it's also the 126th anniversary of the first margharita pizza " in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito of the Brandi pizzeria in the grand Bourbon palace in Naples in southern Italy – a summer residence for the kings of the Two Sicilies – for Queen Regina Margherita. ", as reported here. However, other pizza-related records remain, including world's largest pizza, from South Africa, at " The largest pizza ever baked weighed 12.19 tonnes (26,883 lb) and was made at Norwood Hypermarket, Norwood, South Africa on 8 December 1990. The pizza measured 37.4m (122ft 8in)in diameter. ", and the world's largest pizza delivery, " organised by Pizzas 4 Patriots (USA), who sent 30,000 pizzas with DHL Express to the United States Armed Forces, in Kandahar Airfield, Bagram Airbase and Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, on 4 July 2012. The 12 inch pizzas were made by Great Kitchens, Inc. in Illinois and the delivery started on 21 June 2012.". A few more pizza facts can be found here.
Since we're on the subject of taking food too far, Ryan asked about deviled eggs, to which i responded with the Pioneer Woman recipe (given that she's a fairly straightforward cook). That touched off a e-discussion regarding how this particular dish probably dates back to ancient Rome, and the alternate name 'eggs mimosa'.
Ryan: and apparently mimosa translates roughly to "full of farce"
which may come from the fact that plants of said genus are sensitive to touch (like venus fly traps etc), though no info on where the name for the drink comes
The NBA Championship occurred since i posted last, between the Cleveland Cavaliers/LeBron James and the Oakland Golden State Warriors, with the Warriors prevailing 105-97. One of the Warriors players, Stephen Curry, was noted by the media to have the nervous 'tell' of gnawing on his mouthgaurd, and this was reported in the NYTimes in hilarious fashion, " The clear plastic U, like a tiny snorkel, curves up toward the rafters from the side of his mouth. After he makes a field goal, it tends to pop out of place, protruding just past his lips, like terrible dentures. When the field goal is very, very nice, the denture effect becomes more pronounced, to the point that it starts to resemble a second, retractile mouth, tucked within the larger one; I think of “Alien.” (Generally, the farther Curry’s mouth guard ventures from his teeth, the greater his disbelief is at what just happened. Amazing plays, like awful calls, can prompt him to pull it out, and even to throw it.) ". That article goes on to cite this also hilarious older Grantland article that joking defined Cavaliers player Matthew Dellavedova's last name as " “the teeth of the leopard,” maybe ". The levity is appreciated.
This listing is most comprehensive Briggs-Myer personality types pop culture/literature-comparison i've come across yet (and throwback to a former post about Briggs-Myers personality types here)
i have learned in the last week that there is a town in Minnesota called Castle Danger (of which wikipedia states, " The exact origin of the name is unknown, although it might have come from the cliffs on the shore resembling a castle; from a boat named Castle that grounded here;[2] or from the Walter Scott novel Castle Dangerous (1831)"), and a town in Florida called Yeehaw Junction (from wikipedia, " According to town historians and several original newspaper articles that are displayed at the Desert Inn and Restaurant, the town was originally named "Jackass Junction" or "Jackass Crossing". This name was given to the four-corner site back in the early 1930s, when local ranchers rode on burros to visit the Desert Inn (then the local brothel). As the 1950s approached, the Florida legislature felt that a name change was due in light of the construction of Florida's Turnpike through the center of the community in 1957, resulting in renaming the town to its present-day name ".)
Last week, i used the phrase 'i don't have any inkling', which made me curious about the origins of that phrase. Turns out, a 'ninkling' was a 13th century word for the indistinct hearing of one's own name, and to not have an (n)inkling would be to have no idea that someone was trying to get your attention.
And this:
Bryan: but is it tingly?
me: no idea
Bryan: which one of us is going to soak our undergarments in espresso to find out?
me: on purpose? i tend to spill things
however, that usually doesn't tingle.
Bryan: good to know
