Useless Information!

[Trigger]

Latest post of the previous page:

Indeedy: The original Walnut Whip contained a half-walnut, or more usually walnuts that had been broken during handling and transportation and therefore not suitable to be placed on the top. It was later marketed with an extra walnut on top, and subsequently the walnut inside was removed to leave one walnut outside. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Whip

[kerch]

The walnut whips that I remember looked different ,the choclate was piped not moulded as the one in photo.

[boatbuilder]

Have you read the link Trigger posted, kerch? That explains a bit about how they were originally made.

The chocolate cone itself and the vanilla fondant filling have altered in recent years. The original whips were hand made by ladies extruding chocolate from a piping bag onto a rubber mould, each containing 12 'formers'. This generated the original deeply ridged surface, and the fondant at that time was more dense. The texture of the outside surface is a skeumorph.

[Mel]

Madonna wore 56 different pairs of earrings when she played Eva Peron, the first lady of Argentina, in the 1996 biopic 'Evita'.

[kerch]

No did n't read that link.

[Trigger]

If a set of identical twin women married a set of identical twin men and subsequently had kids, their children would genetically be siblings.

[boatbuilder]

And if they tried a bit of 'wife-swapping' which bore 'fruit' could they prove who was really the father?

[Mel]

And if they tried a bit of 'wife-swapping' ...

Would they know the difference

The human heart beats approximately 37million times a year.

[Trigger]

Still on the subject of identical twins - some years ago, i knew someone at work, who had older sisters who were id. twins. He told me that sometimes, if one had arranged to go out with her boyfriend - then changed her mind - her sister would deputise!

[Trigger]

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

[Trigger]

Useless Inventions: Baby Mop

[Trigger]

The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.

[Trigger]

In Switzerland if you fail your driving test three times, you have to visit a psychologist and explain to them why.

[Mel]

Albert Einstein's eyeballs are in a safety deposit box in New York.

[boatbuilder]

I hope they are not just in the box but in some preserving liquid as well.

[Suffolkboy]

Black Friday yesterday and apparently Saturday and Sunday.