trivia 9/21
DID YOU KNOW...
Cleopatra lived closer to the time Pizza Hut was founded than to when the
Egyptian pyramids were built.
1. How many Stories constitute the Empire State Building ?
a. - 82
b. - 92
c. - 102
d. - None of these
2. What was the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box ?
3. What is the nickname of the Seattle team of the National Basketball
Association?
4. In what city was Michael Jackson's public funeral held?
a. - Detroit
b. - Los Angeles
c. - Las Vegas
d. - San Francisco
5. Who Am I ?
When I was at Navy, I won the Heisman Trophy as a junior. I also won 2 Super
Bowls...
6. What's the name of the 113-mile road carrying U.S. Route 1 through the
Florida Keys ?
7. What is Malapropism ?
8. There are two American holidays in the month of November; one is
Thanksgiving... what's the other ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Baby carrots, sold in produce outlets, are NOT baby carrots.
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1. - c
2. Bingo
3. Supersonics
4. - b
5. I am Roger Staubach
6. Overseas Highway
7. The misuse of words
8. Veteran's Day
TRUTH !!
Mike Yurosek, who died in 2005 at age 82, was generally agreed to be the
man responsible for the "baby carrot," buffed carrot stubs that became
ubiquitous in lunch boxes and on hors d'oeuvres trays.
Small carrots were not, strictly speaking, a new thing. Boutique farmers had
grown tiny carrots for use in TV dinners since the 1950s, but schemes to
market them fresh to consumers had failed. Maybe it was because lifestyles
had changed or maybe it was dumb luck, but Yurosek's miniatures were the
biggest thing to happen to carrots in the industry's memory, according to
Jerry Munson of the California Fresh Carrot Advisory Board.
Starting with their wide-scale introduction in the early 1990s, baby carrots
sparked a high-tech revolution in the carrot industry and vastly increased
demand for the root vegetable.
Yurosek started out as a large-scale truck farmer on his family's farm in
Santa Clarita, Calif., growing cabbages, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, lima
beans, and carrots. Later, the family moved to nearby Lamont, in Kern
County, the carrot center of California. He launched his Bunny Luv brand in
the mid-1960s. His wife, Sue, drew the sexy lady bunny on the package.
Yurosek developed the baby carrot almost by accident. Among the largest
carrot farmers in California - and probably the world - his packing
operation produced 400 tons of daily cull, damaged and misshapen carrots
that wouldn't fit into bags.
Some of the cull was used for carrot juice concentrate and some for animal
feed, but demand was limited. You can feed cows and pigs just so many
carrots, Yurosek told USA Today last year. "After that, their fat turns
orange."
Experimenting with an industrial potato peeler and green bean slicer,
Yurosek produced the first versions of today's baby carrot in 1986. The
first ones were a bit ragged, but he bagged them and sent them to Vons, a
large West Coast supermarket chain. "I said, 'I'm sending you some carrots
to see what you think,'" Yurosek told USA Today. "Next day they called and
said, 'We only want those.'" The rest, as they say, is history.
..much more to learn here;
http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/mike-yurosek-82-farmer-who-invented-baby-carrots/16046/
DID YOU KNOW...
Cleopatra lived closer to the time Pizza Hut was founded than to when the
Egyptian pyramids were built.
1. How many Stories constitute the Empire State Building ?
a. - 82
b. - 92
c. - 102
d. - None of these
2. What was the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box ?
3. What is the nickname of the Seattle team of the National Basketball
Association?
4. In what city was Michael Jackson's public funeral held?
a. - Detroit
b. - Los Angeles
c. - Las Vegas
d. - San Francisco
5. Who Am I ?
When I was at Navy, I won the Heisman Trophy as a junior. I also won 2 Super
Bowls...
6. What's the name of the 113-mile road carrying U.S. Route 1 through the
Florida Keys ?
7. What is Malapropism ?
8. There are two American holidays in the month of November; one is
Thanksgiving... what's the other ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Baby carrots, sold in produce outlets, are NOT baby carrots.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. - c
2. Bingo
3. Supersonics
4. - b
5. I am Roger Staubach
6. Overseas Highway
7. The misuse of words
8. Veteran's Day
TRUTH !!
Mike Yurosek, who died in 2005 at age 82, was generally agreed to be the
man responsible for the "baby carrot," buffed carrot stubs that became
ubiquitous in lunch boxes and on hors d'oeuvres trays.
Small carrots were not, strictly speaking, a new thing. Boutique farmers had
grown tiny carrots for use in TV dinners since the 1950s, but schemes to
market them fresh to consumers had failed. Maybe it was because lifestyles
had changed or maybe it was dumb luck, but Yurosek's miniatures were the
biggest thing to happen to carrots in the industry's memory, according to
Jerry Munson of the California Fresh Carrot Advisory Board.
Starting with their wide-scale introduction in the early 1990s, baby carrots
sparked a high-tech revolution in the carrot industry and vastly increased
demand for the root vegetable.
Yurosek started out as a large-scale truck farmer on his family's farm in
Santa Clarita, Calif., growing cabbages, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, lima
beans, and carrots. Later, the family moved to nearby Lamont, in Kern
County, the carrot center of California. He launched his Bunny Luv brand in
the mid-1960s. His wife, Sue, drew the sexy lady bunny on the package.
Yurosek developed the baby carrot almost by accident. Among the largest
carrot farmers in California - and probably the world - his packing
operation produced 400 tons of daily cull, damaged and misshapen carrots
that wouldn't fit into bags.
Some of the cull was used for carrot juice concentrate and some for animal
feed, but demand was limited. You can feed cows and pigs just so many
carrots, Yurosek told USA Today last year. "After that, their fat turns
orange."
Experimenting with an industrial potato peeler and green bean slicer,
Yurosek produced the first versions of today's baby carrot in 1986. The
first ones were a bit ragged, but he bagged them and sent them to Vons, a
large West Coast supermarket chain. "I said, 'I'm sending you some carrots
to see what you think,'" Yurosek told USA Today. "Next day they called and
said, 'We only want those.'" The rest, as they say, is history.
..much more to learn here;
http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/mike-yurosek-82-farmer-who-invented-baby-carrots/16046/