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| YellowRose |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 07:30:03 AM
My brain is crammed packed with interesting but useless information. The kind that I never seem to be able to work into a conversation. Yesterday my sister and I visited an antique shop (so thankful Texas is opening back up)where I found a 2004 American Test Kitchen cookbook. On page 314 I found this little tidbit.
In the late 1800s animal shaped crackers came from England to USA. They were so popular in 1902 Nabisco designed the now famous circus box that had a string attached so the box could be hung on Christmas trees. In 2004 there were 19 different animal crackers.
That's my little bit of nonsense - what's yours.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Jun 11 2020 : 12:24:10 AM
Like the old folks used to say "I've slept since then". I remember him now that you mentioned Cheers. I'm up in the middle of the night cause my Annie had to go out. BTW how's your Annie doing?
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| nubidane |
Posted - Jun 10 2020 : 7:57:28 PM
LOL I was wondering if you would. He was the mailman on the long running successful sitcom Cheers. He always had a fact that was, well, quirky, interesting and factual. In other words, the fact guy. LOL
A funny Clavin video. LOL
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cliff+clavin&docid=608026871865413285&mid=D3372DE7E144119BE137D3372DE7E144119BE137&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
Although, my friend Sara, you are much more interesting. Whenever my hubs has a fact like the animal cracker one, I call him CLiff. LOL |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Jun 10 2020 : 4:43:03 PM
Lisa I might be if I knew what you are talking about.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| nubidane |
Posted - Jun 10 2020 : 4:34:29 PM
Sara, are you the Cliff Claven of MJF? |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Jun 10 2020 : 2:19:16 PM
Krista that's a good one.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| MaryJanesNiece |
Posted - Jun 10 2020 : 1:52:23 PM
These are awesome. I googled some trivia because I don’t know any off the top of my head and I found this one very interesting. Play-doh was once used as a wallpaper cleaner before it was rebranded as a child’s play toy. It makes me chuckle since play-doh can be so messy and sticks to carpet! Wouldn’t it have done more damage than good lol!
Krista |
| ceridwen |
Posted - Jun 09 2020 : 11:01:01 AM
Thanks for the info ... great trivia question! lol
Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
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| NatChap |
Posted - May 23 2020 : 08:32:42 AM
I bet today's packaging will not be collectible. It doesn't have the character of the older stuff. Though I wouldn't pay for any of it myself.
Keep shining!
Natalie
"Ask what makes you come alive and go do it." ~Howard Thurman |
| StitchinWitch |
Posted - May 13 2020 : 11:34:51 AM
Sara -- what an interesting cookbook.
LOL-- the pigs are still there
Judith
7932
Happiness is Homemade |
| YellowRose |
Posted - May 13 2020 : 05:51:14 AM
It's hard to believe any of the packaging we throw away now will be collectible.
Another little tidbit from the cookbook. To keep roaming pigs from damaging their grain fields New York residents built a long stone wall on the northern edge of what now is Lower Manhattan. The street that bordered the wall became known as Wall Street.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| NatChap |
Posted - May 12 2020 : 4:25:48 PM
Sara,
The origin of things is fascinating. I never knew that about animal crackers. I bet the early Nabisco animal crackers boxes are valuable to collectors. It's always the stuff people throw away that is the most valuable later.
Keep shining!
Natalie
"Ask what makes you come alive and go do it." ~Howard Thurman |
| NatChap |
Posted - May 12 2020 : 4:21:18 PM
Judith, LOL! Methinks you're completely right!
Keep shining!
Natalie
"Ask what makes you come alive and go do it." ~Howard Thurman |
| StitchinWitch |
Posted - May 12 2020 : 12:14:30 PM
Maybe the cup being invented before the helmet indicates what men think is more important..........
Judith
7932
Happiness is Homemade |
| katmom |
Posted - May 12 2020 : 11:46:40 AM
Gotta luv 'tid Bits of info.. it makes us giggle and sometimes say, "hmmm"...
snorks-n-giggles!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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| City Chick |
Posted - May 12 2020 : 06:32:48 AM
I had always thought that string was for carrying around.  LOL! Wish I had known this tidbit when my girls were little. Would have been a cute tradition to start. Hang their animal crackers on the tree for Christmas morning.
I read that the athletic cup was invented before the helmet. The first cup was used in 1874 and the helmet was used in 1934.(I had to look those dates up) Goofy to me.
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| YellowRose |
Posted - May 09 2020 : 05:04:11 AM
Jana, Thanks for your sweet words.
Peggy, I've never had a frosted animal cracker - didn't know they made them.
Vanessa, so glad they figured that all out in 1818. I wonder what took them so long.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| Audra Rose |
Posted - May 09 2020 : 03:55:40 AM
After reading this last night, just before drifting off, a tidbit of trivia came to me: it wasn't until 1818 that the right shoe was made. Before that, both shoes were the same.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
There's no place like home!
Dorothy Gale
Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.
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| LadyInRed |
Posted - May 09 2020 : 12:01:26 AM
Sara...I loved your fun little tid-bits!! Very interesting. I never knew that circus box was meant to hang on the Christmas Tree. I use to put little things I found in them that
I wanted to keep after I ate the animal crackers. Once the frosted animal crackers came out, however, I never wanted those plain ones again!!!
Love, Hugs, and Happy Mother's Day Girls,
Peggy   
Farmgirl #1326
Member since Feb. 2010
Dec 2011-Farmgirl of the Month
Aug 2018-Farmgirl of the Month
LOVE YOU TO THE BEACH AND BACK!
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| janamarieje |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 5:14:38 PM
Sara, I don't call that tidbits, I call that fascinating bits of information! I love the history and origins of things.
Jana
MJF #7110
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Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz
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| YellowRose |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 3:30:38 PM
Winnie I have faith you will think of something.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 2:28:29 PM
Sara and Dianna, these little facts were unknown to me and I think they are so interesting! Like MIchele, my mind is drawing a blank for trivia too, but I will think on it and come back soon!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
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| YellowRose |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 12:30:16 PM
Michelle not to fret it'll come to you around midnight that's about the time I always think of what I want to remember.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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| windypines |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 10:24:16 AM
Great fun facts, very interesting. Off hand I don't have any to share.......but will think on it. lol
Farming in WI
Michele
FGOTM June2019
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| suny58 |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 08:50:44 AM
Sara I found the information on the animal crackers way cool. Cant wait to share this with my Sara! Thank so much for sharing! I love Koalas too. Havent seen them in the generic bag I buy tho! :(
Farmgirl #7103
FGOTM January 2018
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| YellowRose |
Posted - May 08 2020 : 08:23:33 AM
Dianna I find your little tidbit about toothpicks very interesting. I will never look at the humble toothpick the same way again. Think of the engineering that went into inventing the first toothpick machine.
BTW one of the things I omitted from my little bit of nonsense was the koala bear was the newest addition as of the book's issue in 2004.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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