So, inside the little flappy door that covers the opening to the gas tank on my cars, there’s this weird U-shaped fixture.
*It’s for holding the fuel cap while you’re filling up. * It turns out I didn’t have to be putting the fuel cap on the car roof, chasing it when it inevitably rolled off, etc. for those many, many years.
It was… not a good moment for me when this truth suddenly dawned.
Mine is attached by a cord.
Mine has the U-shape thing AND a cord. It’s an A-grade car, I’ve known it all the time.
Not. It’s a seven year old Skoda Fabia, but it’s a fine car.
My last couple of cars have had the cap attached by the plastic thingy but I’m old enough to have had a car where the cap came off and indeed I have chased them around on the ground. Would have been nice to know about the cap holder, although since no one ever told me about it, I’m guessing a lot of other people didn’t know either (I’m looking at you, Dad, and every boyfriend I ever had).
I learned this one day when at a full service gas station. I glanced at my side mirror just as the attendant put cap in the holder. I was flabbergasted!
Dunno - if you’re familiar with the concept of ripe and unripe fruit, it should be sort of obvious. Most fruits go from green to something else as they ripen.
Those seed beans are Great Northern beans. I didn’t know that until I was in my 40s.
I recall this 80s song. Is there some hidden meaning we should be aware of?
I just recently realized why the “top of the hour” and “bottom of the hour” are called that. :smack:
Lots of people in mismatched areas are just hopelessly confused. In my area, it’s even more confusing because school districts are separate and generally do not match any other boundaries, and parents often deal with the schools much more than the city. And property developers will exploit it by naming subdivisions in a lower-status city after the higher-status city where the post office and schools are. So someone will have a Footown address, send their kids to Footown City Schools, and live in a subdivision called Footown Acres, and then when there’s a pothole on their street they call and argue with the folks at Footown city hall…who beat their heads on the desk while trying to explain that the caller is actually in Anyville.
Looked it up – got it. Masturbation, apparently. (From nearly closing one’s eyes at the key moment.)
I would never have even guessed there was a hidden meaning, because of the actual Japanese visual theme of the song’s video. Ignorance fought.
Many older cars don’t have the holders.
According to Wikipedia the songwriter has denied that the song has anything to do with masturbation and said that the phrase “turning Japanese” was basically just nonsense, although the quotes aren’t sourced.
Regardless, this is not an obvious thing about real life you realize after the millionth time.
That’s a whole other song.
I’ve been a big fan of tartar sauce my whole life.
Also, my whole life, when glancing at a spice rack, I often see Creme of Tartar.
I always assumed that Creme of Tartar was a primary ingredient in tartar sauce.
A few months ago I was at a deli and and asked for tartar sauce on my fish sandwich, but the bin that holds the tartar sauce was just about empty. I watched them replenish the bin by putting in a combination of mayo with pickle relish. The sandwich tasted good, just like always. This got me thinking, “What really is in tartar sauce?”. My subsequent investigation of the label on the bottle of tartar sauce in my 'fridge, and further readings on the internet, confirmed that Creme of Tartar has no place in tartar sauce.
:smack:, mind blown, and ignorance fought.
Well, there might be some small amount in the pickles. Alum too, for that matter.
Neither Tartar Sauce, nor Cream of Tartar has anything to do with Steak Tartare. Nor with the Tartar that forms on your teeth. Nor with the tribe of horsemen called Tatars or Tartars (although the dish Steak Tartare WAS named after them.)
heh 
I wondered how long it would take for someone to catch that.
Re green jalapeno peppers:
I’ve encountered several food items which describe themselves as being made with “ripe jalapenos”, or even “perfectly ripe jalapenos”, while showing pictures of green jalapenos / being tinted greenish / containing identifiable chunks of green jalapenos. So I suspect the average person (or at least the average marketing department) has not figured this out yet.
Incidentally, this also applies to green bell peppers: they’re just unripe red or yellow bell peppers.
But other unripe fruits aren’t generally eaten in an unripe condition because they taste awful that way.