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π White Coke
White Coke (Russian: ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠ²Π΅ΡΠ½Π°Ρ ΠΊΠΎΠΊΠ°-ΠΊΠΎΠ»Π°, tr. Bestsvetnaya koka-kola, lit. "colorless Coca-Cola") is a nickname for a clear variant of Coca-Cola produced in the 1940s at the request of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Like other clear colas, it was of the same original flavor, virtually unchanged by the absence of caramel coloring.
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- "White Coke" | 2015-11-26 | 103 Upvotes 24 Comments
- "White Coke" | 2013-07-17 | 478 Upvotes 236 Comments
π Dishwasher Salmon
Dishwasher salmon is an American fish dish made with the heat from a dishwasher, particularly from its drying phase.
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- "Dishwasher Salmon" | 2023-04-16 | 466 Upvotes 371 Comments
π List of common misconceptions
This is a list of common misconceptions. Each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. These entries are meant to be concise, but more detail can be found in the main subject articles.
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- "List of Common Misconceptions" | 2022-07-13 | 21 Upvotes 8 Comments
- "List of Common Misconceptions" | 2020-05-22 | 52 Upvotes 15 Comments
- "List of common misconceptions" | 2018-06-14 | 94 Upvotes 26 Comments
- "List of Common Misconceptions" | 2010-06-27 | 169 Upvotes 53 Comments
π Toast sandwich
A toast sandwich is a sandwich made with two slices of bread in which the filling is a thin slice of toasted bread, which can be heavily buttered. An 1861 recipe says to add salt and pepper to taste.
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- "Toast Sandwich" | 2021-03-12 | 23 Upvotes 9 Comments
- "Toast sandwich" | 2016-11-24 | 39 Upvotes 19 Comments
- "Toast Sandwich" | 2013-12-01 | 178 Upvotes 144 Comments
π Casu Martzu
Casu martzu (Sardinian pronunciation:Β [Λkazu ΛmaΙΎtsu]; literally 'rotten/putrid cheese'), sometimes spelled casu marzu, and also called casu modde, casu cundΓdu and casu frΓ zigu in Sardinian language, is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots). A variation of the cheese, casgiu merzu, is also produced in some Southern Corsican villages like Sartene.
Derived from pecorino, casu martzu goes beyond typical fermentation to a stage of decomposition, brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly of the Piophilidae family. These larvae are deliberately introduced to the cheese, promoting an advanced level of fermentation and breaking down of the cheese's fats. The texture of the cheese becomes very soft, with some liquid (called lΓ grima, Sardinian for "teardrop") seeping out. The larvae themselves appear as translucent white worms, roughly 8Β mm (0.3Β in) long.
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- "Casu Martzu" | 2021-06-19 | 209 Upvotes 175 Comments
π OK Soda
OK Soda was a soft drink created by The Coca-Cola Company in 1993 that courted the American Generation X demographic with unusual advertising tactics, including neo-noir design, chain letters and deliberately negative publicity. After the soda did not sell well in select test markets, it was officially declared out of production in 1995 before reaching nationwide distribution. The drink's slogan was "Things are going to be OK."
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- "OK Soda" | 2020-04-07 | 254 Upvotes 128 Comments
π Open Cola
OpenCola is a brand of open-source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe. It was launched in 2001 by free software P2P company Opencola, to promote their open-source software concept.
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- "OpenCola (Drink)" | 2021-06-19 | 74 Upvotes 7 Comments
- "Open Cola" | 2016-09-21 | 146 Upvotes 66 Comments
- "Open Source Cola" | 2011-01-01 | 69 Upvotes 14 Comments
π Pepper X
Pepper X is a cultivar of Capsicum chili pepper bred by Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper. As of 2023, it is the world's hottest pepper.
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- "Pepper X" | 2023-10-20 | 232 Upvotes 132 Comments
π Atomic gardening
Atomic gardening is a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radioactive sources, typically cobalt-60, in order to generate mutations, some of which have turned out to be useful.
The practice of plant irradiation has resulted in the development of over 2000 new varieties of plants, most of which are now used in agricultural production. One example is the resistance to verticillium wilt of the "Todd's Mitcham" cultivar of peppermint which was produced from a breeding and test program at Brookhaven National Laboratory from the mid-1950s. Additionally, the Rio Star Grapefruit, developed at the Texas A&M Citrus Center in the 1970s, now accounts for over three quarters of the grapefruit produced in Texas.
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- "Atomic Gardening" | 2023-08-11 | 18 Upvotes 1 Comments
- "Atomic Gardening" | 2021-05-21 | 188 Upvotes 96 Comments
- "Atomic Gardening" | 2021-05-03 | 18 Upvotes 1 Comments
- "Atomic gardening" | 2015-05-15 | 22 Upvotes 4 Comments
π ISO 3103: an international standard for brewing tea
ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea, possibly sampled by the standardized methods described in ISO 1839. It was originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980 by the British Standards Institution, and a revision was published in December, 2019 as ISO/NP 3103. It was produced by ISO Technical Committee 34 (Food products), Sub-Committee 8 (Tea).
The abstract states the following:
The method consists in extracting of soluble substances in dried tea leaf, contained in a porcelain or earthenware pot, by means of freshly boiling water, pouring of the liquor into a white porcelain or earthenware bowl, examination of the organoleptic properties of the infused leaf, and of the liquor with or without milk, or both.
This standard is not meant to define the proper method for brewing tea intended for general consumption, but rather to document a tea brewing procedure where meaningful sensory comparisons can be made. An example of such a test would be a taste-test to establish which blend of teas to choose for a particular brand or basic label in order to maintain a consistent tasting brewed drink from harvest to harvest.
The work was the winner of the parodic Ig Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
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- "ISO Standard for Preparing Tea" | 2021-03-07 | 175 Upvotes 130 Comments
- "ISO 3103: an international standard for brewing tea" | 2008-01-06 | 10 Upvotes 7 Comments