Not as weird, but no less distinctive, are the beer festivals held nearly every month (and almost every week in the summer), which include celebrations of specific types of beer, like organic, sour, rye and fruit.About 40 minutes southwest of Portland, you can find McMinnville’s UFO ...
Ecuador. The act of writing brings happy memories to the forefront of my mind. One such memory is of all the exotic fruits we got to know while living in Loja. I do not exaggerate when I say that every single week when we went to the open air market we encountered a new food (frui...
The durian is rather a notorious fruit – it has become known as the world's stinkiest and has been banned in various public locales throughout southeast Asia. Naturally, someone thought that a fruit with these accolades would make an outstanding wine and a group of students in Singapore did...
where they recognized it and everybody smiled and nodded, so I guess it's a Vietnamese fruit. In many ways it's similar to durian, with the weird lobey yellow items inside a frightening, huge, spiney pod, but it's a different pod, bright green instead of brown like durian, and the...
In a bonus piece of evolutionary weirdness, aardvarks supplement their diet with a single type of fruit, a cucumber which has now become entirely reliant on hungry aardvarks for its continued existence. The plant flowers above ground – as plants do – but thenpushes itself into the earth...
This is what happened.Picture 1 The fig tree produces small fruit, called figs. These figs are often eaten by birds. In this picture we can see a bird eating a fig.Picture 2 The birds drop the seeds onto the branches of other trees. They will start to grow 58、 there. Here we can...
opens blood vessels and therefore would improve oxygen intake and deliver a better performance from players not accustomed to playing at high altitudes. Viagra was served to basically the entire team, none of whom knew they were taking, because it was crushed and put in their fruit drinks. It...
on the Top of my beak that I used to knock down Fruit. I also use my horn to fight and sometimes to attract a mate. I bring food to my mate when she sits on our eggs. If you think my horn looks weird, you should see my eyelashes, I A...
Truth told, I had never read Andersen before, discounting him as simply a moralistic fairy tale writer. And while that’s partially right, it overlooks the heaping fruit-loopy tower of psycho-sexual WTFry he offers. John is a good protestant boy left alone in the world after the death of...
to work better than the laxative psyllium at relieving constipation – but at the time this report was written, it simply would not have been accurate to say that, based on the body of available evidence, prunes were any better at keeping you “regular” than any other sort of fruit. ...