DailyDirt: Trick Or Treat
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
With Halloween upon us, some of you might be hiding out with the lights off to keep kids begging for candy off your front lawn. Or you might be generously handing out full-size chocolate bars instead of those "fun size" candy bars that aren't really that much fun at all. Either way, if you like candy, you might be replenishing your supply on the cheap soon.- What can you do with all the Halloween candy your kids have -- but that you don't want them to eat? Try a 'Cash for Candy' buyback operation (usually from a local dentist) that will take your candy and send it to troops overseas. Or just prank them and record it. [url]
- Poisoned Halloween candy is a myth -- except for Ronald Clark O'Bryan who actually did hand out poisoned candy to a few kids. O'Bryan was executed for murdering his own son and trying to cover up his heinous act by passing out poisoned candy. So don't worry too much about poisoned candy, but it's still a good idea to check to make sure the candy isn't rotten or something. [url]
- The International Cocoa Quarantine Centre studies hundreds of varieties of cocoa plants to help protect the crop from disease and other threats -- and keep chocolate production in step with demand. Chocolate flavors could also change drastically as different crops become popular, but the alternative of chocolate shortages isn't an appetizing idea, either. [url]
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Filed Under: candy, chocolate, food, halloween, international cocoa quarantine centre, myths, ronald clark o'bryan
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Different flavor chocolate -
It would be a shame to see chocolate go the same way, but the chocolate overlords at least seem to be spending money on the problem.
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I found the page that allows access to the public data from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, but I can't seem to find any entries for 'Musa'*. Then again, they don't seem to understand why databases are useful: the result of almost every query is 'Records haven't been indexed yet.' An alphabetical walk through the full seed list finds plenty of 'Fragaria', so at least strawberries are in there.
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* - is this because the bananas we eat tend to be seedless, meaning that preservation would be in a 'gene bank' instead of a 'seed bank'? Don't know much about botany.
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