Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 13, 2013

Yeah, I’ve heard of hákarl before… on the Icelandic episode of Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.”

I think we may need a new definition of “edible.”

Simpsonfan….There are a lot of foods about which I’ve thought the same thing…. How many died figuring out which mushrooms were edible, for instance….Or that acorns and olives could be eaten after long soaking with lye….Cashews and coffee are only usable after roasting… and then there’s fugu….etc I’m sure.

Hunger prevailed, I suppose.

Gweedo, no! I’m in Marin right now!

Not that I’ve seen a pot plant in a zillion years….

I don’t wear pajamas. TMI?

I don’t own a pair of pajamas, officer, that wasn’t me that was reported, I sleep in the nude…..er….oh oh…maybe I shouldn’t have said that.

Pajamas are the PERFECT clothes. They’re modest, comfortable, warm, and inexpensive. The Chinese may be on to something.

PJ’s cover up a lot more than some clothes people wear out in the public!

If as much money and effort went into methods of preserving life as does into methods of destroying life, then this world of man would actually be a decent place to be.

JK and Bob … the cashews sold as “raw” are not raw.

I said “roasted” when I should have said “cooked.”

“Roasted” nuts have been either fried or baked, which browns them.

“Raw” cashews have been steamed, or sometime just slightly heated, which does not.

Before that, cashews contain urushiol, which is also the “poison” found in poison ivy…. they are quite dangerous to eat, and also cause rashes, etc, in cashew pickers.

It is not legal to sell completely raw cashews in the US.

It also used to be illegal for “raw” sugar to be raw….. it was refined white sugar with molasses added back…. as is brown sugar.

Not sure of the current status of that, as some sugars are labelled so as to make me think they are actually unprocessed.