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    Quick Quirk Quiz: In the Kitchen
    Quick Quirk Quiz: In the Kitchen
    Quick Quirk Quiz: In the Kitchen
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    Quick Quirk Quiz: In the Kitchen

    By Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

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    Have you ever considered the items that are crammed into your kitchen cupboards and cabinets? Behind every box of cereal, every utensil, and every sauce a story waits to be told. Test your knowledge of common kitchen items with these 28 true tales of culinary origins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Spencer - Trivia Queen
    Release dateNov 9, 2009
    ISBN9781310877018
    Quick Quirk Quiz: In the Kitchen
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    Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

    Janet Spencer:Trivia Queen of the UniverseRoyal Ruler of Useless InformationMaster of Arcane Knowledge and Extraneous LoreKeeper of Forgotten Facts and Startling StatisticsFreelance Hysterics * Creative Profanities * Quantum PerplexitiesJanet Spencer was born in 1960 to a poor white sharecropper in Illinois. At 12, she slipped aboard a southbound freighter headed for Australia, where she was further raised by a pack of wild dingoes. Naturally curious and totally obsessed with the minor details of life, she traveled to London to join the Royal Astronomical Society to learn more of the world and the universe. However, the RAS had a long-standing ban against allowing in poor white sharecroppers half raised by wild dingoes, so she instead camped outside and counting the bricks making up the snobby institution. This was a pivotal experience for her. Finding there were exactly 17,431 bricks started her on her lifelong quest for small details, amazing truths, and petty coincidences. The Trivia Queen claimed her crown!Since then, she has been roaming the world from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, counting bricks, observing small insects, and measuring the average number of grains in a typical salt shaker. With such a vast storehouse of trivial knowledge, she now embarks on a new quest: to share this information with her fellow humans - stumping experts, amazing laymen, and bringing wide-eyed blank stares to all those around her. She is the author of several books including "Montana Trivia" and "Yellowstone Trivia" published by www.RiverbendPublishing.comJanet Spencer spends her spare time serving as chairwoman of the Associated Association of Associated Associations, playing with spatulas, and conversing with ducks.

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    Quick Quirk Quiz - Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

    IN THE KITCHEN

    The Quick Quirk Quiz

    The Surprising Stories, Hidden History,

    and Unusual Origins Behind Familiar Things

    By Janet Spencer, Trivia Queen of the Universe

    Royal Ruler of Useless Information

    Master of Arcane Knowledge & Extraneous Lore

    Keeper of Forgotten Facts & Startling Statistics

    Published by Janet Spencer at Smashwords.com

    Copyright 2009 Janet Spencer

    Discover other works by Janet Spencer at

    www.smashwords.com/profile/view/triviaqueen

    www.TriviaQueen.com

    www.RiverbendPublishing.com

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Thank you for your support!

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Goddess of Grain

    Fried Flakes

    Perfect Porridge

    Boiled Squashed Wheat

    Innovative Oats

    Great Grape Juice

    A Barbarian Plant

    Canned Grease

    A Milk Merger

    A Wild Apple

    An Old Lady’s Orchard

    A Chinaman’s Cherries

    Pineapple Paradise

    An Australian Nut

    A Precious Plant

    An Essential Mineral

    The Salt Seller

    A Spicy Sauce

    A Fermented Flavor

    A Signature Sauce

    Tomato Paste from Tomato Waste

    Sandwich Sauce

    Rough and Raw

    A Musical Group and a Miracle Mixer

    Carl’s Food Chopper

    A Threaded Neck

    Plastic Product Parties

    Soapy Steel

    Goddess of Grain

    In Greek mythology, Demeter was the goddess of grain and fertility. Her name came from the words meaning ‘earth mother’. She nourished young things, the green earth, the changing seasons, and the cycle of life and death. The Romans later adopted the goddess, changing her name to Ceres. Her Roman name probably came from the root word ker meaning ‘to grow’ which also gives us ‘create’ and ‘increase’. She was typically depicted holding a basket of flowers or fruit and wearing a garland of grain. Ceres had many minor gods acting as her assistants, with each one presiding over a different aspect of agriculture: one to turn fallow land, one to prepare the fields, one to plow the furrows, one to sow, one who weeded, one who thinned, one who harvested, one who carted, one who stored, and one who

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