Trivia Today - Monday, April 21, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Did anyone color Easter eggs or have an Easter egg hunt over the weekend? My family was never big on egg hunts, but we used to color Easter eggs every year when I was little. Sometimes I miss getting to do that! Is there an age when it becomes unacceptable to still color Easter eggs??

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet."

HINT: (1908-1968), American playwright, novelist, and prolific screenwriter who wrote swashbucklers for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Howard Helmer, former American Egg Board representative, is the Omelet King. Helmer holds three Guinness World Records for omelet making - fastest omelet-maker (427 omelets in 30 minutes); fastest single omelet (42 seconds from whole egg to omelet); and omelet flipping (30 flips in 34 seconds).

The name meringue came from a pastry chef named Gasparini in the Swiss town of Merhrinyghen. In 1720, Gasparini created a small pastry of dried egg foam and sugar from which the simplified meringue evolved. Its fame spread and Marie Antoinette is said to have prepared the sweet with her own hands at the Trianon in France.

It is said that an egg will stand on its end during the spring (vernal) equinox (about March 21), one of the two times of the year when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are of equal length everywhere.

To tell if an egg is raw or hard-boiled, spin it. Because the liquids have set into a solid, a hard-boiled egg will easily spin. The moving liquids in a raw egg will cause it to wobble.

Long before the days of refrigeration, the ancient Chinese stored eggs up to several years by immersing them in a variety of such imaginative mixtures as salt and wet clay; cooked rice, salt and lime; or salt and wood ashes mixed with a tea infusion. The treated eggs bore little similarity to fresh eggs, some exhibiting greenish-gray yolks and albumen resembling brown jelly.

Double-yolked eggs are often produced by young hens whose egg production cycles are not yet completely synchronized. They're often produced too, by hens which are old enough to produce Extra Large-sized eggs.

(www.incredibleegg.org)


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet."

ANSWER: Harry Kurnitz.

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