Being stuck in bed does a number of things
I am always hungry
I am generally bored most of the time
I have way too much time on my hands and little to occupy it
Today's time killing project is just as the title says
Anyone that has additional Phun Phacts is cordially invited to join in
Phascinating Phun Phood Phacts
Feel Like having Italian food?
Spagetti is not Italian it it is Chinese
Source: Answers.com
Chinese noodles pre-date Italian pasta, and traders may have introduced the food to the west. Historically, people in Italy ate pasta in the form of gnocchi-like dumplings - pasta fresca eaten as soon as it was prepared. It has been asserted that pasta was first worked to long, thin forms in Southern Italy around the 12th Century. The popularity of pasta spread to the whole of Italy after the establishment of pasta factories in the 19th century, enabling the mass production of pasta for the Italian market. Pasta is commonly associated with Italy.
In the United States around the end of the 1800s, spaghetti was offered in restaurants as Spaghetti Italienne (which likely consisted of extremely soggy noodles and a tomato sauce diluted with broth) and it wasn't until decades later that it came to be prepared with garlic or peppers. Canned spaghetti, kits for making spaghetti, and spaghetti with meatballs became popular, and the dish has become a staple in that country. (Wikipedia)
OK how about Pizza?
Source; Wikipedia
The “Pizza” was originally used as a test bed for bakers to insure that the ovens had reached proper temperature .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
Hmm Ok Lets have Chinese
The Fortune Cookie Those tasty little snacks at the end of the meal with the fortune “Help Help I m being held prisoner in a Chinese Fortune Cookie Factory”
Sorry not true
Japanese? Maybe but more likely a product of California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie
I know Chop Suey!!
Source: Foodreference.com
Not exactly
http://www.foodreference.com/html/fchopsuey.html
OK Chow Mein
Source; Wikipedia
Closer The name is sort of the same but highly modified for US and Canadian Tastes
Does not resemble the real deal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow_mein
BAR B QUE dammit!
Well it’s like this
The Mongols used helmets to cook meat over a fire. In fact today you can go to Japan and get “Genghis Khan” Which is really very good. No Helmet just a Genghis Kahn pot
In the middle east goats etc were cooked over a spi.t
The cave man I hear cooked meat over an open fire.
I give up How about a good old American hot dog
Oops. Sorry, I think Germany has that title
And it looks like the good old American hamburger too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog
So what is American ?
All of the above really
Also corn (Native Americans)
The Potato (South America Peruvian)
Turkey (did you know that Benjamin Franklin Proposed the Turkey as the American bird
The Bald Eagle won out (aren’t we glad?)
