Reply With QuoteCauliflower is grown in Lincolnshire?
I thought a thread where people could post useless knowledge, recent things you have discovered but have never thought about or just random factoids, might be a bit of fun, a bit like QI but giving us the opportunity to be “that bloke at the bar” in our local.
Todays snippet of wonder for me was learning that in the UK cauliflower can only grow in Cornwall.
The most bland and uninspiring of veg is a Mediterranean brassica and needs a Mediterranean climate to grow. I though it was so god bleedin’ awful it must have been a veg of UK origin. (Thank you countryfile)
Over to up you fine members.
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Cauliflower is grown in Lincolnshire?
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Dogger Bank itch is a cutaneous condition caused by exposure to the sea chervil.
The disease, common in fishermen who work in the North Sea, has been recognized by the Danish Workman's Compensation Act since 1939.
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Not according to Matt BakerOriginally Posted by Chris_in_the_UK
Anyhoo
It appears that Matt is wrong
https://www.thclements.co.uk/our-products/cauliflower
Our cauliflower comes from Devon.
Hows the new thread working out for you?! :-)
Not very well apparently, I am not trying to prove anything just add a bit of fun.
To try to redeem myself, I had never heard of Prince Ruperts drop until recently. It has no practical relevance to my life but I still find it fascinating.
https://youtu.be/C1KT8PS6Zs4
According to tonight's Antiques Roadshow we are the only country in the world that doesn't have to have its name on its postage stamps. Apparently an international concession because we invented the things.
I have seen fields full of Cauliflowers in Kent, no wonder its known as the garden of England. Goes to show you cannot trust everything you see on Countryfile and the BBC.
Sliced the palm of my hand once, cutting cauli's as a lad in Lincs this was, that taught me.
Interesting fact: my grandad and dad used to grow cauliflower in Northern Ireland.
I did not know that the suits Astronauts wear when carrying out a space walk from the ISS cost $15m each. That’s some suit.
None of these are actually nuts.
Almonds, pistachios, peanuts, cashews and pecans.
Not sure if they can only be exclusively grown in one region?
The hedge sparrow isn't a sparrow.
The Jerusalem Artichoke is neither
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The Red Panda is more closely related to raccoons weasels and skunks than it is to the Giant Panda. The latter is actually part of the bear family.
(Not according to Matt Baker this time)
And the Kung Fu Panda?
The difference between JIS & phillips head screws & screwdrivers
https://daitool.com/blogs/news/phill...d-screwdrivers
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(from a James May clip)
Hot water turns to ice faster than cold water
Lemons Float in water Limes Sink
The drummer from ZZTop is called Frank Beard. Hes the only member of the band without a long beard.
He causes panda-monium…
Rhubarb is grown in the dark!
The fifteen gold circles on the badge of Cornwall are fifteen gold coins (Bezants) that were the ransom demanded by and paid to the Saracens for the release of Richard Duke of Cornwall (later King Richard II) after he was captured during the Crusades.
The citizens of Cornwall crowdfunded the ransom money, which is where the Cornish motto "One and All" originated.
Allegedly.
This was told to me by Matt Baker when he was in Cornwall doing a piece on slow worms for Countryfile.
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A bloodhounds sense of smell is so acute it could detect a kipper on the moon.
Contrary to popular belief, Haggi (plural of Haggis) do not roam the mountainsides of Gods Country.
But they do have scales on one side a feathers on the other. Honest!
Jim
"There exists a set of initial parameters, and a pair of temperatures, such that given two bodies of water identical in these parameters, and differing only in initial uniform temperatures, the hot one will freeze sooner."
- Jeng
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So the thing about the legs on one side being longer than the other due to only walking around mountains in a clockwise direction is a myth? My world has just imploded.
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Only if it's "forced", this give sweeter rhubarb and allows an earlier crop.
Cornwall is the only place in the UK where you can grow cauliflowers *all year round*
I host a quiz every Thursday night and like to end the quiz with a bit of a brain teaser. I posed this question recently:
Why do Americans collectively bury over 90,000 tons of various metals every year. The metal they bury is brand new and is never intended to be re-used?
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Coffin furniture?
Possibly the deployment of racoon-proof sarchophagi?
One of the world's most prolific stamp designers lived in Darlington. I knew him well.
https://www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/w...helyi#tab=null
Two bonus points for your team!
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It depends on the location of the bloodhound. If it was in a lunar module on the surface of the moon, whilst an astronaut (also in the module) was eating some kippers for breakfast, then sure, the bloodhound could detect them, and probably the rest of the crew in the module could too. If instead the bloodhound was on the earth at the time (or even in a different lunar habitat with its own dedicated life support), then it would have no chance.
According to the Apollo astronauts, moon dust smells of burnt gunpowder, once it is exposed to the oxygen in the lunar lander.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
The swing bridge at Whitby was built by the same people who built Blackpool tower
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Alaska is the most eastern, western, and northern state in the US.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
There are two countries in the world landlocked by other landlocked countries.
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Not correct. Cauliflowers are round no matter what time of year it is.
Eastern?
I still struggle with that despite having been sad and tested it out myself. Always a geek!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisopochnoi_Island
At 179°46' East (+179.7667) (in the Eastern Hemisphere), the easternmost tip of Semisopochnoi is, by longitude, the easternmost land location in the United States and North America. Semisopochnoi sits only 14 minutes (0.2333 degrees) or 9.7 miles (15.6 km) west of the 180th meridian.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
The easter bunny is actually a Hare.
Folk thought Hares laid eggs because Hares would often layup with nesting lapwings.
When someone saw a hare get up, they thought it was from the nest of eggs.
Doesn't make sense when you look at a 'flat' map, but the lines of longitude converge the further north of the equator you go and also conversely further south of the equator.
It's possble to be in England, with Wales to the exact north, south, east and west. The same is true the other way round.
Were a few miles from such a point.
I live with Wales north, east and west of us.
The dateline bends out of convenience but the antimeridian can't do that trick.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
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