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19 October 2002
Filed under:Interesting facts at12:48 pm

… and if you are American and just had an “Argentinian” steak – guess what? It was almost certainly from Australia or New Zealand. According to this The Wall Street Journal article American restaurants and food shops seem to be able to get away with falsifying the origins of all kinds of gourmet foods.

Wasabi? “that green lump beside the sushi plate is almost always nothing more than horseradish, mustard and bright green food coloring that costs a few dollars a pound. Made from a gnarled root that is tough to cultivate, true wasabi costs about $70 a pound. ”

Key lime pie? “almost never the real thing. Because real Key limes are yellow, a true Key lime pie isn’t even lime green.”mortgage credit loan 125 secondmortgage nationwide home loans 1st20 loan home 80 20 calculator20 loan 80 calculator mortgageeducation payday 29 loan 20in 2004 advance cash loanloans 24 7 easy cashin 2nd loan california mortgage Map

Filed under:Gadgets at12:20 pm

New Scientist (who I used to write for) reveals that Philips is working on a smarter alternative to DataPlay’s little recordable discs. These “SFFO” (Small Form Factor Optical) discs would store 4Gb each (instead of the DataPlay 250Mb per side) and will be available in players costing as little as £70… if you can wait two years. Whether they would include copy protection schemes as standard is as yet unclear…credit card accept major allmoney credit accept personal cardaccredited degree services humanapplication credit aapartmentline accept credit payment cardcredit free card no amateurs pornaccept amex card creditmortgages credit bad 2nd Map