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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: Limetless on November 20, 2012, 06:13 am
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Something else the Brits bought into all your lives. Be happy we did, everybody loves sandwiches and I would dare to say they have brought light into all our lives.
Now go celebrate by making your favorite sandwich. :)
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damn 250 years of sarnie goodness cheers for letting me in on this limetless...think ill be making a triple decker or 2 for lunch.
long live john montagu the earl of sandwich 8)
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This is what the country where I am originally from invented:
Sonic drilling
Propeller machine gun synchronization and more
Insulin injection
Jet Engine
Gerovital
The Pen
Cholera vaccine
Ejection seat
Karpen cell
Cybernetics
Basilica cannon
Diorama
I'll let you guess the country. You wouldn't expect it :)
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This is what the country where I am originally from invented:
Sonic drilling
Propeller machine gun synchronization and more
Insulin injection
Jet Engine
Gerovital
The Pen
Cholera vaccine
Ejection seat
Karpen cell
Cybernetics
Basilica cannon
Diorama
I'll let you guess the country. You wouldn't expect it :)
Germany.
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Germany.
Wrong, Romania :) I did say you wouldn't expect it right?
Sonic drilling
In 1934, Ion St.Basgan patented in Romania the sonic drilling. After that, in 1937, the inventor patented the invention in the U.S., for deep-sea oil drilling. At that time, using the classic drill, Americans do not reach more than 1,500 meters deep. Using sonic drilling they reached nearly 12,000 meters depth.
Propeller machine gun synchronization and more
In World War I British air fleet was inferior to the German planes because last had superior arms. British admiralty decided to make a contest of inventions which help the British to win the war. George Constantinescu invented the device that synchronize airplane machine gun with the propeller. Also George Constantinescu is the father of Sonics - the science of mechanical power transmission through vibration. An if you like to drive your car for the automatic gear that is also possible because George Constantinescu invented the automatic gear.
Insulin injection
Nicolae Paulescu, a professor of psychology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, is the one who discovered for the first time in 1921, insulin, the hormone secreted by the pancreas that regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and minerals in the body protidelor. Paulescu is one that has demonstrated efficacy in reducing hyperglycemia and this substance to use insulin to treat diabetes. His discovery has saved millions of lives.
Jet Engine
In October 1910, the Grand Palace on the Champs-Elysee, Paris hosted the second edition of the International Aerospace Exhibition. Were exposed to the latest aviation parts. The most interesting machine, which has attracted the attention of many, was a red plane with no propeller, the metal plate whose wrote Coanda 1910. This aircraft it was totally different from what the people called up when "plane." The machine had two wings and one double room, a span of 10.3 m, 12.5 m long, weighing 420 kg and the propulsion force of 220 kg. Jet engine, invented and built for the first time by Henri Coanda was composed of a piston engine, four-cylinder, water cooled and develops 50 horsepower at 1,000 rpm.
Gerovital
Romanian physician specialist in gerontology, academician in 1974 and director of the National Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Ana Aslan emphasized the importance of procaine in improving age-related dystrophic disorders, applying it widely in clinical geriatrics, under the name of Gerovital or vitamin H3. Geriatric product was prepared in 1952 and patented in over 30 countries. That same year he founded the National Institute of Geriatrics Geronto, "Dr. Ana Aslan ", the first institute of geriatrics in the world, a model for developing countries through research and clinical care.
The Pen
In 1827, to May 25, 3208 Petrache Poenaru obtained a French patent for "plume portable sans fin, qui elle-meme s'alimente avec de l'Encre" (endless portable pen, feeding himself with the ink). This invention revolutionized the field of writing instruments, helping to create an object currently used by millions of people. Poenaru's tank frame with scratches on the paper and remove unwanted ink leakage and propose solutions to improve the component parts to ensure a constant flow of ink, and possible replacement of parts.
Cholera vaccine
The doctor Ioan Cantacuzino set up a cholera vaccination method, called "Cantacuzino method" used today in countries where cases of cholera still signals. Getting involved in the study of cholera, typhus and tuberculosis, make outstanding contributions. He created the concept of immunity through contact.
Ejection seat
On 3 November 1928, Anastase Dragomir recorded in France, the patent application "Nouveau Systeme des parachutes of montage of dance les appareils aerienne Locomotion" and received patent no. 678 566 of 2 April 1930 on the "ejection cabin".
Karpen cell
An electric cell, Romanian production, provides power for 56 years without interruption. Inventor miracle, Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen, scientist, engineer, physicist and inventor said with a half-century ago, that it will work forever. It's "uniform temperature thermoelectric Pila", known as "Karpen's Cell", made in 1950. The device is actually a perpetuum mobile, ie a device that generates energy indefinitely without outside intervention.Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen began working on a theory of power cells to generate endless energy even before the First World War. The "Cell" was patented in 1922.
Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the retrospective control theory. The term spread especially in connection with digital systems, but the scope is much broader: cybernetics deals with how a system (digital, mechanical, biological) processes information and reacts to them, all cybernetics is interested in how systems allow changes or modifications to optimize actions. Stefan Odobleja doctor, creator and father of cybernetics generalized study published in 1929 "Method for Transonic chest" in which the law of reversibility sets out for the first time .
Basilica cannon
The romanian Urban make the first an enormous cannon at 1453, called "Basilica", measuring 8m long and about 75cm in diameter, which was able to launch a 544 kg projectile at a distance of nearly two kilometers.
Diorama
Made by Grigore Antipa (biologist, naturalist, zoologist and ecologist), first scientist who use some kind of picture on his museum on 1907. Due to the exceptional presentations, numerous European and American museums have requested support for organizing their collections like Grigore Antipa do.
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Now go celebrate by making your favorite sandwich. :)
I've not had a proper sandwich in ages. I think I'll knock up some rump steak and chillies on ciabatta tonight. Not a very British Sandwich but bloody lovely!
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All hail the sandwich!
And good going on Romania for inventing all that stuff, I never knew any of that stuff. :)
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Yeah well MY country needed three wikipedia pages just to name all of its inventions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(before_1890)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(1946-1991)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(after_1991)
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I'm having a hard time believing this, Lim. We're not talking about something really complex here, the dude just stuck food between two pieces of bread. Bread was invented thousands of years ago, someone at some point had to have made a sandwich before then.
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If you check the etymology of the sandwich, it's 250 years dude. :)
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Yeah well MY country needed three wikipedia pages just to name all of its inventions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(before_1890)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(1946-1991)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(after_1991)
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I'm having a hard time believing this, Lim. We're not talking about something really complex here, the dude just stuck food between two pieces of bread. Bread was invented thousands of years ago, someone at some point had to have made a sandwich before then.
I'm having a hard time believing the USA invented "Doggies" - sunglasses for dogs. Were not talking about something really complex here, the dude just took sunglasses and made them to the shape of a dogs skull. Sunglasses were invented thousands of years ago. Sunglasses for dogs is a stupid idea.
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Yeah well MY country needed three wikipedia pages just to name all of its inventions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(before_1890)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(1946-1991)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(after_1991)
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I'm having a hard time believing this, Lim. We're not talking about something really complex here, the dude just stuck food between two pieces of bread. Bread was invented thousands of years ago, someone at some point had to have made a sandwich before then.
No offense buddy but if I'm inventing tomorrow a machine that turns shit in gold the Americans will be in my place in 5 hours taking my invention and probably killing me. So they will take the credit. They always did. They're doing it to americans as well
Read this:
Water-Powered Vehicles
Despite how silly it sounds, water-fueled vehicles do exist. The most famous is Stan Meyer's dune buggy, which achieved 100 miles per gallon and might have become more commonplace had Meyer not succumbed to a suspicious brain aneurysm at 57. Insiders have loudly claimed that Meyer was poisoned after he refused to sell his patents or end his research. Fearing a conspiracy, his partners have all but gone underground (or should we say underwater?) and taken his famed water-powered dune buggy with them. We just hope someone finally brings back the amphibious car.
When Nikola Tesla found a way of getting free electricity for the entire planet Americans stopped him. I do not believe in conspiracies and shit but these things happened and are happening.
the list would go forever
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Had a turkey, cranberry, lettuce, mayo, salt and pepper sandwich today. Was feelin pretty festive, it was so good.
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Sunglasses for dogs is a stupid idea.
So was the 'Pet Rock'.
If people buy it and you make money you'll be called a genius no matter how stupid and worthless the item in question is. I bet the guy that made them was well aware how stupid they were he just felt that American dog owners were even stupider.
I'm having a hard time believing this, Lim. We're not talking about something really complex here, the dude just stuck food between two pieces of bread. Bread was invented thousands of years ago, someone at some point had to have made a sandwich before then.
Possibly but it was the Earl of Sandwich that popularised it. Due to his 'celebrity' at the time it was associated with him and just went from there. From Wikipedia:
The modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table.[20] A very conversant gambler, Lord Sandwich did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread; a habit well known among his gambling friends. Because John Montagu was the Earl of Sandwich others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" - the ‘sandwich’ was born.[21] The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.
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Water-Powered Vehicles
Despite how silly it sounds, water-fueled vehicles do exist. The most famous is Stan Meyer's dune buggy, which achieved 100 miles per gallon and might have become more commonplace had Meyer not succumbed to a suspicious brain aneurysm at 57. Insiders have loudly claimed that Meyer was poisoned after he refused to sell his patents or end his research. Fearing a conspiracy, his partners have all but gone underground (or should we say underwater?) and taken his famed water-powered dune buggy with them. We just hope someone finally brings back the amphibious car.
Except he was completely full of shit and his "invention" violates the laws of thermodynamics. That's not some baseless accusation either, it's the official ruling the Ohio Court system made about it. There isn't a "perpetual motion machine" and there never will be. Want to prove me wrong? How about you provide actual evidence instead of giving bullshit excuses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer's_water_fuel_cell
When Nikola Tesla found a way of getting free electricity for the entire planet Americans stopped him. I do not believe in conspiracies and shit but these things happened and are happening.
He didn't though, and his ideas would be anything but "free", as this "free electricity" model is way too inefficient to be practical on a large-scale level. Could they work in theory? Maybe, but they certainly don't hold up in a real world setting. Tesla was a brilliant man but also a little crazy, so I wouldn't take anything he said as any sort of proof.
the list would go forever
I don't believe you and I challenge you to prove me wrong with actual evidence.
No offense buddy but if I'm inventing tomorrow a machine that turns shit in gold the Americans will be in my place in 5 hours taking my invention and probably killing me. So they will take the credit. They always did. They're doing it to americans as well
Apparently the conspiracy theorists have come in droves to the Silk Road, disappointing but not all that surprising. I say that as a card-carrying member of both the Illuminati and the Masons.
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I'm having a hard time believing the USA invented "Doggies" - sunglasses for dogs. Were not talking about something really complex here, the dude just took sunglasses and made them to the shape of a dogs skull. Sunglasses were invented thousands of years ago. Sunglasses for dogs is a stupid idea.
They're called "Doggles", not doggies and we're really proud about them.
To be honest, I don't see what you're getting at. A stupid invention isn't the same thing as more practical, albeit very simple one. Apples and oranges.
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I've heard with modern science no one need work; generators could be set up and people would be paid for their unspent energy;
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I'm having a hard time believing the USA invented "Doggies" - sunglasses for dogs. Were not talking about something really complex here, the dude just took sunglasses and made them to the shape of a dogs skull. Sunglasses were invented thousands of years ago. Sunglasses for dogs is a stupid idea.
They're called "Doggles", not doggies and we're really proud about them.
To be honest, I don't see what you're getting at. A stupid invention isn't the same thing as more practical, albeit very simple one. Apples and oranges.
What I'm getting at is that stupid inventions are not only invented by Brits.
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I am not going to argue with you as you seem extremely proud of your country. You also seem the kind of guy that strongly believes Wall-Trade Center was taken down by terrorists. NOT
This is not a conspiracy theory that I've seen on youtube but you guys needed petrol and a reason to go and take it...
If you're trying to say no or come up with a theory from New York Times I would suggest that you consider the fact that a plane's impact on a building does not have the characteristics of a controlled detonation.
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ive always wondered how a sandwich thread could get side tracked so easily,thankfully today that has been answered.....go make a sarnie people thats what its all about 8)
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Mnnnn cheese and pickle!! I´m gonna drive to morrisons in Gibraltar just to buy some sexual Bradstons Pickle Mnnnnnnnnnnn on brown fucking bread with the bits in it OMFG lushhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Mnnnn cheese and pickle!! I´m gonna drive to morrisons in Gibraltar just to buy some sexual Bradstons Pickle Mnnnnnnnnnnn on brown fucking bread with the bits in it OMFG lushhhhhhhhhhhhhh
thats what im talking about,someone with a vision..a vision of a damn good sanwich..go and get it made 8)
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I had a jam sandwich today. :)
Other great British inventions:
Turbojet Engine - Frank Whittle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_engine
Postage Stamp - Sir Rowland Hill
Christmas Card - Sir Henry Cole
Pencil - Cumbria, England
Typewriter - First patent for a device similar to a typewriter granted to Henry Mill in 1714
The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)
ARM architecture The ARM CPU design is the microprocessor architecture of 98% of mobile phones and every smartphone.
World Wide Web [51] - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Developed HTTP and HTML - Tim Berners-Lee
Internal combustion engine - Samuel Brown
Two-stroke engine - Joseph Day
Ice cream [65] - Modern Ice cream 1718 England
Marmite
Pancake [66] - Modern pancake, English culinary manuscript 1430
The list goes on... I think are modern lifestyles are not down to the inventions of just one nation, almost every nation has played some part in developing the modern world. I'm proud to be from a nation that not only invented the WWW but also the rubber band (Stephen Perry), not to mention the sandwich. :)
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mmm blt
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I salute the eponymous inventor of the sandwich 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu. Tomorrow, it's a chicken, extra avocado, mayo, double-decker sandwich, held together with a Union Jack cocktail stick for me!
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damn thats a mindfuck
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All hail the sandwich!
And good going on Romania for inventing all that stuff, I never knew any of that stuff. :)
They also tried to purchase a bunch of fighter jets from your country with Oranges, thats right, Oranges in the late 80's or early 90's. All hail Romania!
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I salute the eponymous inventor of the sandwich 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu. Tomorrow, it's a chicken, extra avocado, mayo, double-decker sandwich, held together with a Union Jack cocktail stick for me!
Sounds like your taste buds are in for some quality sexy time ;D
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Sounds like your taste buds are in for some quality sexy time ;D
They did, was very generous with the filling, double-deckers make it better! So much filling, it needed four Union Jack cocktail sticks to hold it together, very patriotic lol! :)
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I am not going to argue with you as you seem extremely proud of your country.
... says the guy who started going off about the greatness of Romania in a sandwich thread. You do realize the hilarious irony here, right?!
For the record, my post was only half-serious (hence the "'Merikuh" quip), I'm really quite apathetic to my nationality.
You also seem the kind of guy that strongly believes Wall-Trade Center was taken down by terrorists. NOT
Yes, I believe terrorists took down the World Trade Center, obviously that makes me a complete nutter right? ;)
This is not a conspiracy theory that I've seen on youtube but you guys needed petrol and a reason to go and take it...
Wow, you saw it on youtube, right next to the sneezing panda video and the gorilla humping a frog video! What a reliable source!
If you're trying to say no or come up with a theory from New York Times I would suggest that you consider the fact that a plane's impact on a building does not have the characteristics of a controlled detonation.
The New York Times is certainly a more credible source than your aforementioned youtube source...
I think it says a lot about this place when a nutjob conspiracy theorist like you has +50 karma. Take your anti-intellectual bullshit somewhere else please.
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I am not going to argue with you as you seem extremely proud of your country.
... says the guy who started going off about the greatness of Romania in a sandwich thread. You do realize the hilarious irony here, right?!
For the record, my post was only half-serious (hence the "'Merikuh" quip), I'm really quite apathetic to my nationality.
You also seem the kind of guy that strongly believes Wall-Trade Center was taken down by terrorists. NOT
Yes, I believe terrorists took down the World Trade Center, obviously that makes me a complete nutter right? ;)
This is not a conspiracy theory that I've seen on youtube but you guys needed petrol and a reason to go and take it...
Wow, you saw it on youtube, right next to the sneezing panda video and the gorilla humping a frog video! What a reliable source!
If you're trying to say no or come up with a theory from New York Times I would suggest that you consider the fact that a plane's impact on a building does not have the characteristics of a controlled detonation.
The New York Times is certainly a more credible source than your aforementioned youtube source...
I think it says a lot about this place when a nutjob conspiracy theorist like you has +50 karma. Take your anti-intellectual bullshit somewhere else please.
Yes, your highness. There are times in life when we eventually accept some things after a long period of denial. "Your time hasn't come yet baby" - Elvis
P.S. Trust me, there are better persons than you out there. Stop being arrogant and stop pretending you are someone else. The meaning of life is about creating a character that will last a bit more after you die. The meaning of life is NOT becoming the best.
+1 by the way. I know it will give you a split second of happiness, at least I personally get and enjoy those split seconds of happiness,
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i want to know exactly how long it was until some genius decided to toast the raw bread and spread forth the marmalade
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I am not going to argue with you as you seem extremely proud of your country.
... says the guy who started going off about the greatness of Romania in a sandwich thread. You do realize the hilarious irony here, right?!
For the record, my post was only half-serious (hence the "'Merikuh" quip), I'm really quite apathetic to my nationality.
You also seem the kind of guy that strongly believes Wall-Trade Center was taken down by terrorists. NOT
Yes, I believe terrorists took down the World Trade Center, obviously that makes me a complete nutter right? ;)
This is not a conspiracy theory that I've seen on youtube but you guys needed petrol and a reason to go and take it...
Wow, you saw it on youtube, right next to the sneezing panda video and the gorilla humping a frog video! What a reliable source!
If you're trying to say no or come up with a theory from New York Times I would suggest that you consider the fact that a plane's impact on a building does not have the characteristics of a controlled detonation.
The New York Times is certainly a more credible source than your aforementioned youtube source...
I think it says a lot about this place when a nutjob conspiracy theorist like you has +50 karma. Take your anti-intellectual bullshit somewhere else please.
You obviously know nothing about politics, yet you insult someone for not sharing your opinion and you also insulted the SR community as a whole for supporting thecrackhead, which in my book is borderline-retarded behavior.
Also, that wasn't a gorilla fucking a frog, it was a chimp. Get your fucking facts straight ;D
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i want to know exactly how long it was until some genius decided to toast the raw bread and spread forth the marmalade
I love random questions like these, gives me something to do with my insomnia, plus it's the sort of question that might turn up in a pub quiz! According to my research toast has been around since Roman times, however the first electric bread toaster is a Scottish invention created by Alan MacMasters in Edinburgh, and the first automatic pop-up toaster (toast as we know it!) was invented by Charles Strite, an American inventor, in 1919. Marmalade, is also a Scottish invention, from Dundee, when a storm damaged Spanish ship, carrying Seville oranges, sought refuge in Dundee harbour, the damaged oranges were sold off cheaply to James Kellier a merchant who was down on his luck, whose wife turned it into marmalade in 1700. No one knows who invented the combination of marmalade on toast, based on my research, it would be fair assume it was invented somewhere in Scotland.
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Princess, ILY.
Your getting a pot of Frank coopers Original Oxford Marmalade as a present.
thick or thin cut?
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thats quite interesting princess.heres one for the sandwiches or toast even,your gonna love me or hate me for asking.....what about marmite .....bom bom bommmmmmmm 8)
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Princess, ILY.
Your getting a pot of Frank coopers Original Oxford Marmalade as a present.
thick or thin cut?
Proper marmalade please, thick cut, thin cut is too much like jam in my opinion, I like my marmalade nice and chunky! ILY too :-*
thats quite interesting princess.heres one for the sandwiches or toast even,your gonna love me or hate me for asking.....what about marmite .....bom bom bommmmmmmm 8)
Marmite has an interesting history, the product that was going to become Marmite was invented in the late 19th century when German scientist Jutus von Liebig discovered brewer's yeast could be concentrated, boiled, and eaten. However, it's the Brits who made it commercially viable, in 1902 the 'Marmite Food Extract Company' was established in Burton upon Trent. Marmite is a French word, meaning a large covered earthenware or metal cooking pot, our UK labels still carry the image of a marmite today :)
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cheers princess thats pretty cool ,i love finding out all these random and quite useless facts myself never know when you could be wowing people..so typical of us brits again making something famous.now the question is whos a marmite eater and whos not? 8)