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Restaurants have been around for a very long time but in the past they only served travellers. In ancient Greece and Rome, inns and taverns served food to people who were far away from home. Although taverns and coffee houses were popular places to gather and share beverages in the seventeenth century, the idea of eating out for fun didn’t take off until the late eighteenth century. Unless you’re in a particularly remote area, you can’t go far without finding a fast-food restaurant. You also can’t go far without seeing cars, even if most of those cars are taxis. Much of the time, fast-food restaurants and cars seem to be everywhere. This is really no coincidence — without cars, we wouldn’t have fast food! In the early 1940s, cars became a common sight as more and more people started buying them. The restaurant owners in California in the United States decided to take advantage of the rising popularity of cars, so they designed restaurants that let people order and eat without leaving their vehicles. Soon, the restaurant owners realised that if they changed their food-preparation area to work less like a restaurant and more like an automobile assembly line, they could make a lot of food in a very short time.
The Burger from Hamburg The origin of the hamburger is very mysterious. In Medieval times the Tartars, a band of warriors from the plains of Central Asia would place pieces of beef under their saddles while they rode. This would tenderise the meat that would then be eaten raw. This is the legend of the origin of the modern dish, Beef Tartare. Did you know that a hamburger has no ham in it? The ham in hamburger comes from the city of Hamburg. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants brought a dish called Hamburg Style Beef to the United States. This dish was a raw, chopped piece of beef and is believed to be the first hamburger. Now here is where the story of the hamburger gets confusing. One story is that the first hamburger was served up at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. This sandwich was made with a cooked patty of ground beef on a hard roll. Louis’ Lunch, a American restaurant dating back to 1895, claims that their owner Louis Lassen made the first hamburger in response to an impatient customer’s hurried lunch order.
Fish Flavoured Ketchup! Even before the world knew about tomatoes, there was ketchup. The word “ketchup” comes from the Siamese word kechiap, a tangy sauce made of pickled fish. It was first prepared in the 1600s and spread through the region. In the 1700s, British sailors took it from Singapore to England. They spelled it “ketchup,” and tried to make it themselves. But when they couldn’t make it, they started adding other ingredients, including ground mushrooms, walnuts, and cucumbers. And that’s where tomato ketchup comes from!
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3 Who Invented the Pizza? The story of the pizza starts in Italy. Or Greece. Perhaps Egypt? There are good arguments for each, depending on how we define pizza. If we say that a pizza is a kind of flat bread with stuff on it, we know that pizza dates back to at least the 1st Century B.C. Even earlier, in 500 B.C., Persian soldiers baked a flatbread on their shields which they then covered with cheese and dates. But does it count as a kind of pizza if it’s cooked out in the field and not in an oven? The ancient Greeks had a flat bread called plakountos, on which they placed various toppings, and archaeologists have found ovens, which they think were used to make pizza. In 1522, tomatoes were brought back to Europe from Peru. Originally they were thought to be poisonous, but later the poorer people of Naples added the new tomatoes to their bread and created the first simple pizza, as we know it.
Belgian Fries anyone? In 1524, Spanish invaders landed in South America and found all kinds of new things to eat, including tomatoes, peanuts, cacao beans, hot peppers, and more. You might not recognise those “original” potatoes today. They were dark and small — almost as small as peanuts. They looked like dried mushrooms. Still, they were abundant and nutritious. The Spanish were impressed and so the potato sailed to Europe. The Belgians claim to have invented French Fries, though no one knows for sure. The dish was first made in the 1700s and was simply called fried potatoes. The American president, Thomas Jefferson, tried them in Paris and brought the recipe home. French Fries really became popular in 1864, when Joseph Malines of London put “fish and chips” (French fries) on the menu. But they weren’t called French Fries until 1918 or so. American soldiers in France loved the fried potatoes so much that they called them French Fries. Potato chips also have a very interesting story. A chef named George Crum accidentally invented them in 1853, thanks to a strange customer. One day a very rich businessman came to the Moon Lake House Hotel in New York and ordered fried potatoes. But he wanted them thin, the way the French made them. He kept sending them back to Mr Crum, complaining that they were too thick. Finally, Crum got really angry and sliced the potatoes paper-thin and fried them to a crisp in oil. The businessman loved them and they instantly became a hit. DESIGN: TARIQ GILANI
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Party Popper Craft Instructions:
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Start out by cutting 1 to 3 pieces of tissue paper into 12” x 12” squares. Use at least two pieces of tissue paper to make your party popper a little stronger. You can use tissue paper in different colours for each layer or use all the same colour if you like. Lay the squares of tissue paper on your work surface on top of each other and then lay the toilet tissue roll centred along one edge of the tissue paper. Tape the edge of the tissue paper onto the side of the toilet paper roll. Roll the toilet paper roll up in the tissue paper tightly and secure the other end with tape. Your toilet paper roll should now be completely covered and you should have about 3” of tissue paper hanging off each end of the toilet tissue roll.
• Coloured Tissue Paper • Toilet Paper Roll • Cellophane Tape • Curling Ribbon • Small Candies and/or Gifts • Scissors
Cut two pieces of curling ribbon, each one about 20-inches long. Pinch the tissue paper together on one end of the toilet paper roll and tie it with the ribbon as close to the toilet paper roll as you can. Now you can fill the inside of the toilet paper roll with candy and/or small gifts. Once it is full, pinch and tie the open end of the tissue paper like you did the first end. For a nice finishing touch, use the edge of a scissor blade to curl the ribbon. For a fancier party popper, use two or more pieces of ribbon to give it a fuller look. You can also decorate the party popper using crayons, markers, or stickers!
Remember kids, always get permission from your parents before you start. It’s always a good idea to have a helper nearby.
Daffy Duck Pencil Toppers! Pipe cleaners can actually be used to make some really fun crafts! ToffeeTV.com’s Talea Zafar shows you how to make a Daffy Duck pencil topper using these fun, furry materials!
How to make it:
Supplies needed: • Two-and-a-half pieces of Pipe Cleaners (one-and-a-half black, and one full orange) • One pencil
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• First, take the full-length black pipe cleaner, and roll it on your pencil. Don’t make it too tight and be sure the coils are close together. Slide the coil off the pencil because you have just made Daffy Duck’s body! • Next, take the orange pipe cleaner and fold it in half.
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• Then, slide the folded orange pipe cleaner (folded side up), into the black coil. Take the orange pipe cleaner out before two coils at the top, as shown in the image, and bend the orange pipe cleaner at a 90 degree angle. So you’ve just made Daffy Duck’s beak! • Next, leave an inch or so and bend the two “legs” at the same 90 degree angle as its beak.
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Stick the Daffy Duck on the top of your pencil and turn your writing utensil into some really cool lead! Want to watch other fun activities like this? Log onto toffeetv.com!
• Next, we need to make his wings. For this, you need to use the halfpiece of black pipe cleaner. Slide it through one of the ribs of the coil, below the beak. Make sure it is equal on both sides. • Then hold the ends of the coil, and begin coiling inwards and in the downward direction. You can squeeze and shape the wings a bit so they look like angel wings or you can simply keep them round!
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Just another thing to boast about! China adds to its list of technological innovations and advancements by starting service on the world’s longest highspeed rail route. The opening of the new 2,298-km line between Beijing and Guangzhou means passengers will be whisked from the capital to the southern commercial hub in just eight hours, compared with the 22 hours previously required. Trains will travel at an average speed of 300kms per hour over the line, which includes 35 stops in major cities such as Zhengzhou, Wuhan on the Yangtze River and Changsha. AFP
Imagine waking one morning with the sun shining brightly above your bedroom because the roof has been ripped off by a supernatural power. Well something similar happened with this Alabama woman who fell asleep on the couch and didn’t realise a tornado had ripped off part of her roof until firefighters and neighbours came to check on her. “I didn’t know I was that heavy a sleeper,” said 77-year-old Betty Russell. “It had caved in the south side of my house and honestly I didn’t hear it. I cannot believe I didn’t hear it but I didn’t.” “There is a huge hole right where her bed is,” her grandson, Scott Russell, 13, said. “She usually goes to sleep in that bedroom, but for some reason she didn’t do it this time and she was saved.” Betty Russell believes angels helped keep her safe. She collects small statues of angels and has them displayed on bookshelves, tables and glass cases throughout the home where she has lived since 1962. Russell said her two most important angels are her husband and son, who died at different times both within weeks of Christmas. “Personally, I feel like I have two angels, my son and my husband, so I feel like I was looked after,” she said. SOURCE: HUFFINGTONPOST.COM
We are family! Now this is what I call a family. A young male lion caught in a snare, which slowly tightened around his neck as he grew older, was fed by his siblings for three years. The lion was first spotted trapped in the snare in Mikumi National park in Tanzania back in 2009 but several attempts to rescue him failed. The young animal would soon have been lying in agony in the African bush facing a certain death. But he was saved thanks to a rescue operation that was launched this summer. The lion was found by park rangers in August and vets managed to sedate him and cut away the electrical wire snare. By the time he was found he was so weak he was unable to hunt, but amazingly he was being kept alive by the love of his brothers and sisters in his pride. They didn’t kill him as often is the fate of weak male lions, but instead the siblings in his pride kept him alive by bringing him back prey they had hunted. SOURCE: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
Santa’s modern sleigh This year Santa’s got a new sleigh — and it’s got room for ten. Rudolph may have been rendered redundant by this seven-engined, fourwheeled, 24.5ft long Santa transporter. The brainchild of Steve ‘Doc’ Hopkins, it is actually a history of motorcycle company Harley-Davidson on wheels. Dubbed Timeline, it features all the iconic US firm’s air-cooled big-twin motors from 1909 to present. The beast has two front wheels and two drive wheels at the rear and boasts 40ft of chain. Amazingly, the monster hog is roadworthy and has completed a 900-mile, fully laden trip between ‘Doc’ Hopkin’s Wisconsin motorcycle dealership and Sturgis, North Dakota. SOURCE: WEB.ORANGE.CO.UK
Aliens! Sorry to disappoint you but they are only human skulls deliberately warped into strange, alien-like shapes that were unearthed in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico. The cemetery was discovered by residents of the small Mexican village of Onavas in 1999 as they were building an irrigation canal. It is the first pre-Hispanic cemetery found in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The site, referred to as El Cementerio, contained the remains of 25 human burials. Thirteen of them had deformed skulls, which were elongate and pointy at the back, and five had mutilated teeth. Dental mutilation involves filing or grinding teeth into odd shapes, while cranial deformation involves distorting the normal growth of a child’s skull by applying force — for example, by using cloths to bind wooden boards against their heads. “The reason why these individuals at El Cementerio deformed their skulls is still unknown,” said researcher Cristina García Moreno, an archaeologist at Arizona State University. “The most common comment I’ve read from people that see the pictures of cranial deformation has been that they think that those people were ‘aliens,’” García added. “I could say that some say that as a joke, but the interesting thing is that some do think so. Obviously we are talking about human beings, not of aliens.” A number of skeletons also were found with earrings, nose rings, bracelets, pendants and necklaces made from seashells and snails from the Gulf of California. One person was buried with a turtle shell on the chest. It remains uncertain why some of these people were buried with ornaments while others were not, or — another mystery — why only one of the 25 skeletons was female. SOURCE: MSNBC.MSN.COM
Atlantis found! This city might just have a happy ending unlike Atlantis. In the 1970s, Villa Epecuen, a tourist village on Lago Epecuen in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, had a population of more then 5,000 with 300 thriving businesses and tens of thousands of annual visitors. However, on November 10, 1985, the nearby dam broke, starting a gradual flood. By 1986, four feet of water covered the streets and by 1993, the town was ten metres underwater. Today, the waters of Lago Epecuén have receded, leaving behind the wreckage of this once bustling vacation spot. Much like the Dead Sea, Lago Epecuén is renowned for its therapeutic salts, making Villa Epecuén a popular place to hit the beach. Now the town boasts just one resident, Pablo Novak, a fellow in his early eighties who was the only person to return to the town after it began to reemerge in 2009. SOURCE: IO9.COM
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s n i g i r O d r o W Salary Did you know that the word salary comes from salt? Archaeologists say that salt was used as far back as 6,500 BC. They found rock salt in the mines of Hallstein and Hallstatt near Salzburg (the city of salt). Salt was precious and it was not only used for seasoning, but also for preserving food. For centuries, salt was traded just like gold. When Alexander the Great went to India during his world conquests around 328 BC, he found five types of salt: sea salt, rock salt, red salt, black salt, and earth salt. Ancient Romans built roads to the Adriatic Sea to mine salt. Roman soldiers received special allowances, called salarium (“salt money”). And that’s where our word “salary” comes from!
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Cool facts Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine. A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other. A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale. JK Rowling chose the unusual name ‘Hermione’ so young girls wouldn’t be teased for being nerdy! Hewlett-Packard’s name was decided in a coin toss. The total number of steps in the Eiffel Tower are 1665. The toothpaste ‘Colgate’ in Spanish translates to ‘go hang yourself’. Pirates wore earrings because they believed it improved their eyesight. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
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