Showing posts with label Trivias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trivias. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Did You Know?
Did
you know?
That honey is the only food that does not
spoil. Archaeologists found honeys in the
tomb of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh King Tut has been tested and found
edible.
The reason is that honey has sufficient high
sugar content, and sugar does not spoil.
Another reason is because of osmosis.
Being honey a concentrated sugar solution, any bacteria coming in
contact with it will have it water sucked out by osmosis.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Breakfast is Dinner?
Did you know that the word “dinner” used to mean
“breakfast”.
The English word “dinner” comes from a French
word “disnar”, which means “breakfast.”
Traditionally, dinner (meaning ‘breakfast’) was the first meal of the
day, eaten around noon. It also happened
to be the biggest meal of the day, with a lighter meal coming later known as supper.
Eventually, more meals started being added to the day with people eating
meals before large noon meal of dinner. Rather
than calling these earlier meals that broke the fast by the word that means
breakfast (dinner), the name “dinner” now stuck as meaning the largest meal of
the day. As time has passed, in most
cultures that use these words to describe their meals, the largest meal of the
day gradually got moved later and later in the day until its meal time was
around the time we used to have supper (which used to be a light meal).





















