Hard to keep that promise considering he left the presidency in 1933.
You are right. For corn (maize) grown in the U.S. , about 40 percent is used for ethanol production, about 40 percent for animal feed. Only a small amount is eaten directly by people, much of it in the form of corn sugar.
Almost certainly a typo for '28. Hard to imagine a candidate making promises in a non-election year.
Another member of the very rare name club here.
Here is the list of living people with my last name that I have met: my wife, my son, my brother, his wife, their children.
Here is the list of living people that I have met that used to have my last name: none.
Here is the list of deceased that I have met with my last name: my father and his sisters, my mother.
The name isn’t (so far as I’m aware) a variant, mistranslation or a misspelling; it’s just rare.
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I traced a family name back in the records. There are two living individuals with that name: one octogenarian and one childless woman in her 50s. It is possible that my great-great-great-grandfather’s brothers had male-line descendants, but also possible that they didn’t. Certainly there’s no one with that name who’s closer than a fifth cousin, and certainly no one in the USA or Canada. It goes back in the records to the 1500s, but was never common and is now largely gone.
My family name is fairly common in England, and very common in Prince Edward Island where my ancestors landed when emigrating from the old country in the early 1800s. My given names have been in the top 10 English men’s names for several centuries, and show up repeatedly in the same combination in pretty much every generation for as far back as the family history has been traced. While this gives me a warm sense of belonging, it also means that any Google search is going to be overwhelmed with hits that are not me, which potentially helps my privacy.
I think my surname is in the top 100 or so. There is a product line with my surname on it, though it is not one at the top of its market. There is one somewhat well-known movie actor who shares my surname (and a briefly famous athlete has my first name as well).
And yet, when a random person hears it and writes it down, a large fraction of the time they get one letter wrong. Sometimes two. The one-letter-difference spelling is nowhere near as common, but somehow people gravitate toward it. Near as I can figure, my speaking is mushy or something.
I am the only one in the history of the world with my first name/last name combination. There was one guy who died decades ago who had my last name and my first name with an alternate spelling. There are a couple common spellings of my first name. Different middle names in any case.
My first name has an unusual spelling thanks to my dads sense of humour. For decades it was pretty much unique and I never found anyone else with that spelling. But about 10 years ago it started to be used as a girls first name and that has led to some confusion online.
And back in 1995, chicken wings were still a regional dish made from the cheapest part of the chicken that was usually thrown away. The notion that the wings would become a national dish and increase greatly in price because chickens couldn’t grow more than two per would have been dismissed even by enthusiasts.
See also “city chicken”, a dish made from pork and/or beef that was meant to mimic the more expensive chicken (it doesn’t, but it’s good in its own right). It’s served on a skewer that’s supposed to be like a chicken drumstick.
I’m still not sure why chickens weren’t raised more in cities, though. They’re really easy to raise, even with a small amount of space.
Maybe they aren’t as economical if you have to provide most of their food because they can’t forage like barnyard chickens can?
No, even then. My mom raises chickens on her city lot, and what she spends in feed is a tiny fraction of the value of the eggs she gets.
Definitely for eggs. But is it economical for eating the bird? Do you normally eat an egg bird after some time?
That’s the traditional response to a hen who’s stopped laying, yes. Which they do after two or three years (and then usually die of old age about a year after that).
This is sometimes called “henopause”.
Not normally, layers tend to be quite skinny so only really good for soup. You can try to fatten them up, but it’s usually not worth the effort compared to a bird that’s been raised for meat from the start.
On my father’s poultry farm we sold the chooks who stopped laying eggs as “boilers”, which I guess meant they were only suited for making soup stock.
To the best of my knowledge my first name/last name combo is unique. I base this on the fact that whenever I do a Google search with my name in quotes the only links that come up are references to me.
Of course, I cheated. Back when I was thirty I legally changed my name and, totally by accident, chose a last name which is apparently unique, or at least not ever connected to my chosen first name.
Yeah, layers will get eaten as soup, not as quality fried chicken, but get eaten they will.
My mother’s maiden name was very rare. Her dad was the only member of his family who emigrated, so it was only his kids who carried it on. My mom said she saw some politician running for some local office in Orange County in the 50s with that name. She wrote him, but he never wrote back. Apparently, my grandfather was estranged from his family, and my mom wondered if this guy was related but didn’t want anything to do with her dad’s family.
I never see the name anywhere (except for my cousins).