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This week, Tidbits studies up on some unusual names for some pretty common foods. You might find this info helpful the next time you’re dining out! • Folks down South are familiar with hush puppies, which are spoonsful of cornbread batter cooked in hot fat. Legend has it that they were used by hunters and fishermen who would toss the little morsels to their dogs to keep them quiet. Others say that Confederate soldiers in the Civil War fed them to their dogs on the battlefield to “hush the puppies.” • Other Southern dishes include burgoo (a thick stew of several types of meat and veggies), chitterlings (the deep-fried small intestine of pigs), and Hoppin’ John (a stew of blackeyed peas, salt pork, and seasonings). Hoppin’ John’s relative is Limpin’ Susan, which substitutes okra for the peas. If you order dirty rice down South, your rice will be mixed with ground chicken livers and bacon drippings, onions, and green peppers. • If you order fruits de mer while dining out, don’t expect to get a platter of fruit. It’s actually a dish of raw and cooked shellfish, including oysters, shrimp, lobster, crab, mussels, clams, and scallops. It’s served cold on a bed of rice. turn the page for more!

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Tidbits® of Gallia, Jackson, Vinton, Meigs & Mason Counties UNUSUAL FOOD NAMES (continued): Often mispronounced as “kwin-o-ah,” the correct way of saying quinoa is “keen-wah.” It’s the seed from a broad-leafed plant related to beets and spinach. Quinoa has more protein than any other grain, and is rich in iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and zinc, as well as a good source of fiber. Most folks prepare it like they would rice. • Ordinary pasta has dozens of different names to describe the variety of shapes and sizes of noodles. Vermicelli actually translates “little worms” from the Italian language, while mostaccioli means “mustaches.” Rotelle is the word for “wheels,” and linguine translates “little tongues.” We all love spaghetti, but did you know it literally means “strings”? Many recipes call for pasta cooked al dente, but what exactly does that mean? The phrase means “to the tooth,” meaning the pasta will offer a little resistance when bitten, still a little firm after being cooked. • Antipasto isn’t pasta, but is served “before the pasta,” and is a plate of appetizers, including sliced meats and cheeses, along with olives. Don’t confuse antipasto with pesto, which is a green sauce prepared from fresh basil, olive oil, garlic, pine nuts, and parmesan cheese. • What do you get when you order filet mignon? The name translates from the French, with filet meaning “thick slice” and mignon translating “dainty.” It’s a piece of beef coming from the small end of the tenderloin, found on the back rib cage of the animal. Because this area is not weight-bearing, the tissue is not toughened by exercise, giving the filet its tenderness. Similarly, beef tournedos are filets cut from the beef tenderloin and often cooked with bacon or lard. • 1. MEASUREMENTS: A quindecennial refers to what period of time? 2. CARTOONS: Who was the voice of Nigel in the animated series “The Wild Thornberrys”? 3. GEOGRAPHY: In what U.S. state did the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain take place during the Civil War? 4. ASTRONOMY: What shape is the Milky Way galaxy? 5. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase, “Cogito ergo sum”? 6. MOVIES: What was the name of Meg Ryan’s bookstore in “You’ve Got Mail”? 7. LITERATURE: What is the name of the bookstore in Diagon Alley in the “Harry Potter” series? 8. EXPLORERS: Which European explorer discovered a sea route to India? 9. HISTORY: During what war did the Battle of Trafalgar take place? 10. MATH: What is the decimal equivalent of the fraction 1/5? (c) 2015 king Features Synd., Inc.

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: You recently updated readers about ways to help pets, including volunteering at shelters. Another place to volunteer is at an assisted-living, or senior-care, facility. Many residents have their pets and sometimes aren’t able to exercise them enough, and they appreciate someone to take their pets on walks or to help bathe them. There is even a need of “babysitting” if the owner goes in for a procedure. -- David P., via email DEAR DAVID: That’s a great idea! While not all assisted-living facilities permit pets, many do, since they often have residential facilities in which the residents have varying levels of independence. Most facilities have a volunteer coordinator; if not, there’s always an activities director. Contact information for a facility near you can be found on the Web or in the local phone book.

According to AARP’s Create the Good organization, senior-care facilities have a great need for volunteers at many levels, from simple visits to say hello to more involved care or administrative assistance. To volunteer, you generally will need to pass a background check and follow the facility’s regulations about visits and volunteer activities, including pet care. You can learn more at www.createthegood.org. If there isn’t a pet-friendly senior-care facility in your area, you still can reach out to seniors in your community. Talk to seniors that you know in the neighborhood on a regular basis to make sure things are going OK, and ask if they ever need free pet-sitting from time to time. Or, look for senior-care organizations locally and ask if their clients have pet-care needs. Send your questions about pet care to ask@ pawscorner.com.

Jalapeno poppers are an essential party food. They fit right in with pigs in a blanket, mini pizzas and all the other reasons to show up at a party in the first place. Classic poppers are breaded and deep fried but if you’re a member of the Everything’s-Better-Wrapped-in-a BaconClub like me, you’re gonna be in heaven. With each bite, melted cheesy goodness oozes out, complementing the crisp crunch of the bacon shell. The best part is, just one popper provides a well-rounded serving of THREE of your major food groups. What you need for 20 poppers:

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UNUSUAL FOOD NAMES (continued): • Julius Caesar had nothing to do with the Caesar salad. It was first created by an Italian restaurant owner named Caesar Cardini in 1924 at his Tijuana, Mexico, restaurant. His version of romaine lettuce, garlic, oil, Parmesan cheese, Worcestershire sauce, and a coddled egg became popular with Hollywood celebrities when he opened a restaurant there, one that still operates today, over 60 years after his death. • Don’t confuse sauerbraten with sauerkraut. The former is a low-cooked beef stew, while the latter is spicy, fermented shredded cabbage. And don’t think that head cheese is any kind of cheese at all. It’s a gelatinous cold cut made from chopped-up bits of the head of a pig or cow, set in aspic. This unusual meat jelly often includes the tongue and sometimes the feet and heart of the animal. • Several desserts have unusual names including Brown Betty, which is a fruit dessert with a breadcrumb topping, served with whipped cream. The first printed recipe for Brown Betty appeared in 1864. Although Baked Alaska is named for our 49th state, it actually originated in France. It’s made from ice cream and sponge cake, topped with meringue. The dessert is then placed in a very hot oven just long enough to firm up the meringue, which acts as an insulator and keeps the ice cream from melting. In 1876, the head chef at New York City’s Delmonico’s Restaurant named the dessert Baked Alaska in honor of the recently-acquired Alaskan territory. • Thankfully, grasshopper pie doesn’t contain any jumping insects, but rather is a ﬂuffy dessert containing crème de menthe and white crème de cacao liqueurs in a cookie-crumb crust.

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• Ordering bangers and mash while in Great Britain will get you a dish of pork sausage and mashed potatoes, while bubble and squeak will be a mixture of mashed potatoes, and boiled cabbage, fried until brown. Yorkshire pudding might sound like dessert, but it’s really a batter of eggs, ﬂour, and milk baked in meat drippings until puffy. If you order “toad in the hole,” your Yorkshire pudding will contain bits of sausage.

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Lots of things we take for granted were invented by Canadians whose names have long been forgotten. Let’s pay tribute to these clever individuals who brought us some of life’s necessities. • We’ve been eating instant mashed potatoes since 1962, thanks to the invention of chemist Edward Asselbergs, a graduate of the University of Toronto. In 1960, Asselbergs was working for the Canadian Department of Agriculture and began developing a process of cooking, mashing, and dehydrating potatoes that would later be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk. That wasn’t Asselbergs’ only accomplishment – he was also responsible for the invention of an infrared apple peeler. • Folks living in snowy climates can thank Alfred Sicard for his invention of the snow blower. As a young person, Sicard would frequently watch his neighbor use a threshing machine to harvest wheat. In his later years, Sicard experimented with a similar idea, using blades to clear roads, and in 1925, he built his first working snow blower. Within two years, the community of Outremont, Quebec, was using his contraption to clear its roadways. Sicard’s company is still in existence, a division of SMI-Snowblast of Watertown, New York. • Two newspapermen brought us one of the greatest board games of all time. Photo editor Chris Haney and sports journalist Scott Abbott were playing Scrabble in 1979 when they decided to invent their own game. They came up with trivia questions in six categories – Geography, Entertainment, History, Art & Literature, Science & Nature, and Sports, and called their invention Trivial Pursuit. Their creation has blossomed into a television game show, online game, arcade game, and home computer version. FOR STARTING AS LITTLE AS $79.00 A MONTH (WITH APPROVED BANK FINANCING) WE CAN INSTALL AN AMERICAN STANDARD 3 TON 13 SEER HI EFFICIENCY HEAT PUMP WITH A NEW BROAN 15 KW ELECTRIC FURNACE IN YOUR MANUFACTURED HOME!

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• Lewis Urry graduated from the University of Toronto in 1950 with a degree in chemical engineering and went to work for Eveready shortly afterward. We have this creative engineer to thank for the invention of both the alkaline battery and the lithium battery, which he developed while working at Eveready. • We might not call our money “greenbacks” were it not for Thomas Sterry Hunt, a chemist and mineralogist who came up with the idea of using chromium as the base for a green ink to print bank notes. His formula was a substance that could not be removed by acid or alkali without destroying the paper. Although he patented his invention, he did not receive much monetary reward from it. • Toronto-born Alfred Gross invented several communications devices, including the first modern walkie-talkie. While aboard a cruise boat on Lake Erie in 1927 at age nine, Gross met the radio operator and was allowed to listen to the boat’s transmissions. A life-long fascination with wireless telegraphy was the result, leading to his creation of the walkietalkie during World War II. In the following years, he patented a Citizens’ Band radio telephone pager, and cordless telephone. Unfortunately, before he could market them successfully, his patents expired, and he failed to make money from his inventions. • Another war-time invention came from Newfoundland native Cluny MacPherson. As a medical doctor and principal medical officer for the First Newfoundland Regiment of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade during World War I, MacPherson devised a method of protection against poisonous gas, the world’s first effective gas mask. He fashioned it from a German helmet seized from a captured prisoner, adding a canvas hood with transparent eyepieces. He treated it with chlorine-absorbing chemicals to counter the chlorine found in the gas.

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It’s nearly a done deal: We likely won’t see an increase in Social Security benefits in 2016. So sayeth the gurus who know about these things. Part of their reasoning is the Consumer Price Index that was issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the year period ending in June, in which all expenditures rose only 0.1 percent. Broken down into the categories we seniors care about, there’s a different story: * All food: up 1.8 percent * Meats and eggs: up 3.3 percent (Ground beef rose 10.1 percent, and the cost of eggs went up 21.8 percent.) * Prescription drugs: up 3.3 percent * Shelter: up 3 percent What apparently balanced the numbers, allowing them to claim only a 0.1 percent overall increase, was energy: It fell 15 percent. That includes fuel oil, gas, firewood, electricity and everything else related to energy. (Did anyone tell the electric company about that? Or the gas supplier?) The AARP has gone to bat for us again, saying that seniors don’t spend the same way as others who also are included in the price index. We spend more on health care, for example. (The good news is that if the Cost of Living Adjustment doesn’t increase, neither will the $104.90 Part B Medicare premium.) For this year, Social Security checks rose 1.7 percent, and we thought that was low. In 2014, it was 1.5 percent. The year before it was 1.7, and in 2012 it was a whopping 3.6 percent. While it looks like we won’t get a COLA increase for 2016, keep your fingers crossed. The final numbers won’t be in until October. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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The French 500 Free Clinic will be held for those who do not have medical insurance, or who are underinsured, from 1 - 4 pm on Thursday, April 30 at 258 Pinecrest Drive in the old Hillcrest Clinic off of Jackson Pike in Spring Valley, next to Arbors Nursing Home. No appointment is necessary. The volunteer medical doctors and nurses are happy to serve free of charge the uninsured residents of Southeastern Ohio and Mason County, WV and beyond, who over the age of 6. Phone 446-0021. The next Free Clinic is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 24th (usually the last Thursday of the month)

Fighting in World War I ceased between the Allies and Germany at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month: Nov. 11, 1918. Congress eventually passed an act to commemorate the occasion, calling it Armistice Day, a legal holiday. Eventually it got around to doing it right and renamed it Veterans Day. Unlike Memorial Day, which ﬂoats around the calendar as a three-day holiday at the end of May, Veterans Day is always on Nov. 11. Here’s an idea to celebrate our day this year: Take a vacation. It’s after the summer (higher) pricing and crowds, and it’s before the holiday (higher) pricing and crowds. Consider one of the resorts in the Sunday River area in Maine. If Mother Nature has provided snow, go skiing. If not, enjoy the pool, restaurants, hiking, fishing, golf and tennis ... and peace and quiet. If you already live in a cold climate and are

Veterans Day Vacations bracing for another harsh winter, consider something along the coast of Florida. YouÕll find fishing, golf, tennis, water skiing, horseback riding, boating ... and beaches. If travel funds are limited, look for something in your own state. YouÕll be able to drive to your destination and still get vacation time for a low cost. If you’re an active or retired member of the Armed Forces, go online to www. veteransholidays.com and www.afvclub.com and click around the links for Military Vacation Deals and Space-A Stays for $349 to $369 for a seven-night week, or call 1-877-772-2322. Be sure to read the fine print for each location you view. Some places donÕt allow children or pets. And to get your discount deal price, be sure to book with AFVC, the Armed Forces Vacation Club. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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