# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2185
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43686 "2016-05-19T04:38:02Z")
Famous men whose last names are traditional girl’s names 1. Babe Ruth 2. Karl May 3. John Hannah 4. Fred T. Jane 5. Pete Rose 6. Edmund Hillary 7. Percy Bysshe Shelley 8. Ariel Sharon 9. Jack Ruby 10. Bob Lilly 11. Buddy Holly 12. John Lindsay ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43687 "2016-05-19T04:46:40Z")
Famous men whose last names are traditional girl’s names 1. Babe Ruth 2. Karl May 3. John Hannah 4. Fred T. Jane 5. Pete Rose 6. Edmund Hillary 7. Percy Bysshe Shelley 8. Ariel Sharon 9. Jack Ruby 10. Bob Lilly 11. Buddy Holly 12. John Lindsay 13. Bob Shirley Shirley has been a popular woman’s name for generations, but the last name has been around for hundreds of years. Until Charlotte Bronte wrote a novel with a heroine named Shirley, in the 1840s, it was just a man’s name and surname. A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43688 "2016-05-19T04:57:56Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43689 "2016-05-19T11:13:39Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken My Dad hated it, and we never had it. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43690 "2016-05-19T12:41:21Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous Actually, almost everything could go on this list. The rural Mid-western diet in the 1940s was not very exotic. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43691 "2016-05-19T12:53:12Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43692 "2016-05-19T13:00:25Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes For certain values of “enjoy.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43693 "2016-05-19T13:17:57Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes 7. Cheese ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43694 "2016-05-19T13:21:20Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes 7. Cheese 8. Eggs ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43695 "2016-05-19T14:31:05Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes 7. Cheese 8. Eggs 9. Lobster It never came my way…my parents didn’t like it…now I love it ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43696 "2016-05-19T14:37:13Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes 7. Cheese 8. Eggs 9. Lobster 10. Hummus Never heard of it til I was grown. Now they sell it in small town convenience stores. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43697 "2016-05-19T14:51:40Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes 7. Cheese 8. Eggs 9. Lobster 10. Hummus 11. Saag Paneer Indian food in general – didn’t exposed to it until high school at a good friend’s home. But the spinach-based dish is something I especially would not have entertained as a youngster. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43698 "2016-05-19T14:57:59Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes 7. Cheese 8. Eggs 9. Lobster 10. Hummus 11. Saag Paneer 12. Brussels sprouts Salted and roasted. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43699 "2016-05-19T15:10:21Z")
A food you never ate as a kid that you now enjoy 1. Sushi 2. Arepas 3. Chicken 4. Couscous 5. Macadamia nuts 6. Tomatoes 7. Cheese 8. Eggs 9. Lobster 10. Hummus 11. Saag Paneer 12. Brussels sprouts 13. Artichokes The next city to lose famous artifacts due to terrorism ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43700 "2016-05-19T15:51:12Z")
The next city to lose famous artifacts due to terrorism 1. Alexandria I’m surprised the new library there has survived this long. ETA: quiltguy- in case you don’t know, it’s perfectly okay to give the first answer yourself in your own set. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43701 "2016-05-19T17:46:54Z")
The next city to lose famous artifacts due to terrorism 1. Alexandria 2. Istanbul ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43702 "2016-05-19T18:18:46Z")
The next city to lose famous artifacts due to terrorism 1. Alexandria 2. Istanbul 3. Jerusalem ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43703 "2016-05-19T19:54:31Z")
This is kind of a grim category, isn’t it…? The next city to lose famous artifacts due to terrorism 1. Alexandria 2. Istanbul 3. Jerusalem 4. Kabul ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43704 "2016-05-19T20:06:47Z")
The next city to lose famous artifacts due to terrorism 1. Alexandria 2. Istanbul 3. Jerusalem 4. Kabul 5. London ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43705 "2016-05-19T20:23:16Z")
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