Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 20, 2021

Smames Jith

Nowadays you can call Pizza Hut and have pizza delivered within the hour.

May the Lord be with you.

just saying, but by now, the child of Chicha (and Poncha) should be 21-years-old

Raffaelle Esposito is credited with “inventing” the “modern” pizza!!

“And now, you know the rest of the story!” (With thanks to Paul Harvey Aurandt)

Just cleaned out my fridge and found one of this “modern” pizzas – I only wonder if it’s worth a thing…(PS: “modern” doesn’t necessaryly mean “fresh”, huh, as I can tell from one bite)

Chicha is the name for traditional inca corn beer. so what are they telling us (if anything)?

Ergo, it wasn’t for another 70 years after the invention of the modern pizza that a black man became a doctor in England or the US – and another 170 years before a Disney character got knocked up.

The Romans would line a hole with leaves and water and flavoring in the desert to make slushies or Italian ices. The temp would drop so fast the water would freeze.

And my fresh pudding dessert can go from hot to cold in less than the time it takes to eat it.

Take care, may famed patissier Pierre Fuaniorremord be with you, and gesundheit.

I would not call 1760 modern.

The first African American to earn a medical degree – from Scotland? Not making sense here. Who was the first AA to earn a medical in the USA? The first woman? The first AA woman? Curious minds want to know.

i heard Minnie Mouse was pregnant in one of her early roles

So, up until 2000 Disney practiced safe sex? Who knew??

Happy Fathers’ Day to all.

I thought Bambi’s mother was the first pregnant character, giving birth to Bambi, and then the next year, Bambi impregnates Faline, who then gives birth to twins at the end of the movie.

I don’t know what people in Naples thought of tomatoes at the time. But, supposedly, in 1760 a lot of Europeans believed tomatoes were poisonous.

Tomatoes in Italy – were first called “love apples” and came in yellow.

Chicha was also that rare Disney mother who was not dead or killed off.

You mean, the first one who was ‘showing’…?

Wasn’t Tarzan’s mother pregnant at the beginning of the movie?

Have there been more pregnant Disney cartoon women since?

However being a doctor in 1830 didn’t require any special aptitude. The education was rudimentary, and more on empirical observation then science. It wasn’t one of the better paying professions at the time.

until 1760 they were using rotten tomatoes on ancient pizza…

And someone ruined pizza, by putting pineapple on it. YUCK!