If you like pasta with tomato sauce (e.g. Neapolitan style) you may have asked yourself, ‘Which factors affect the suitability of boiled pasta with tomato sauce for eating?’ If so, a new paper from the Japanese Society of Food Science and Technology could be of interest. “Physical properties of the pasta boiled for the shortest […]
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The tomatoic under-arm odour of J.C.M. Stewart
J.C.M. Stewart conveys an unusual kind of information in this medical paper: “Tomatoes cause under-arm odour,” J.C.M. Stewart, Medical Hypotheses, vol. 82 (2014) pp. 518–521. (Thanks to Jean-François Sauvé for bringing this to our attention.) The author, in Downpatrick, Co Down, Northern Ireland, explains: “I was more than usually aware of my AO [armpit odor] […]
Goldfish no golder when fed tomatoes
“Color of aquarium fishes has an important role in preference of consumers. Insufficient coloration reduces economical value and not meet consumer demands both.” In other words, the ‘golder’ a goldfish is, the more valuable it might be. A team from the Fisheries Faculty at Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey (motto: “The university which brings illumination and […]
The dread tomato addiction
THE DREAD TOMATO ADDICTION by Mark Clifton This essay originally appeared in the February 1958 edition of Astounding. The dates in this version have been modified (all dates plus 50 years). Ninety-two point four per cent of juvenile delinquents have eaten tomatoes. Eighty-seven point one per cent of the adult criminals in penitentiaries throughout the […]
Linguistics lesson: English pronunciation
Linguists quarrel, sometimes fiercely, about how to pronounce certain words. This 1937 film clip shows one such argument about how to pronounce, among other things, the word “tomato”: