How 'bout them apples?

100 years ago, people were eating things that most of us will never taste. So what happened?:

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Your Favorite Foods Are as Addictive as Hard Drugs

Researchers have made a bold statement: All the pizza or ice cream cravings that keep coming back despite your feelings of guilt and depression might be a sign that you have a food addiction.

How long did YOUR ancestors live while eating BACON, LARD, & WHOLE MILK?

How long did YOUR ancestors live while eating BACON, LARD, & WHOLE MILK? | Weed'em & ReapWeed'em & Reap

Processed Meats, Too Dangerous for Human Consumption.

Processed Meats Declared Too Dangerous for Human Consumption | Dreamhealer Alternative Medicine

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health world with startling bluntness: Processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption. Consumers should stop buying and eating all processed meat products for the rest of their lives.

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Did Congress kill the Twinkie?

Hey look! I'm Un-Employed too.

Since 1934, Congress has supported sugar trade tariffs. In a sign of the power of the sugar lobby, Hostess picked unions, not the lobby, to fight when it had to cut costs to stay in business. I found this to be very enlightening and also some what disturbing.



Did Congress kill the Twinkie? The tariff tale behind the Hostess demise.(+video) - CSMonitor.com:

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Unisex Coworker Christmas Gifts

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Top 5 Unisex Coworker Christmas Gifts: 

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Thanksgiving

The First
The origin of the first Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to the explorer Martin Frobisher who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. Frobisher's Thanksgiving celebration was not for harvest but was in thanks for surviving the long journey from England through the perils of storms and icebergs. In 1578, on his third and final voyage to these regions, Frobisher held a formal ceremony in Frobisher Bay in Baffin Island (present-day Nunavut) to give thanks to God and in a service ministered by the preacher Robert Wolfall they celebrated Communion — the first-ever service in these regions.[4] Years later, the tradition of a feast would continue as more settlers began to arrive in the Canadian colonies.[5]


Thanksgiving 
in the United States

In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly traced to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. In later years, the tradition was continued by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.

Pilgrims and Puritans who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as the "First Thanksgiving", including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623, and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631.

Thanksgiving proclamations were made mostly by church leaders in New England up until 1682, and then by both state and church leaders until after the American Revolution. During the revolutionary period, political influences affected the issuance of Thanksgiving proclamations. Various proclamations were made by royal governors, John Hancock, General George Washington, and the Continental Congress, each giving thanks to God for events favorable to their causes.
 As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nation-wide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God"
According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, the Pilgrims may have been influenced by watching the annual services of Thanksgiving for the relief of the siege of Leiden in 1574, while they were staying in Leiden.
Every year, the President of the United States will “pardon” a turkey, which spares the bird's life and ensures that it will spend the duration of its life roaming freely on farmland.


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Thanksgiving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Thanksgiving"
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Biscuit making 101

Prepare by greasing your preferred bread pan

Pour your mixed dough onto a floured surface.

knead lightly.

A wet mix is desired.

Pat the dough out lightly.

Try not to be too rough with the dough.

Pat it out gently.

Cut as many biscuits as you can the first cut.

Pace your cuts to use the dough's surface in the ,most efficient way you can.

Pace the biscuits in the pan with the sides barely touching.