You must not know any homebrewers. Most of us collect commercial beer bottles, clean & sanitize them, and use them for our own brews!
NZ Cheddar is also pale yellow… as Cecil said, grass fed cattle rather than grain fed.
The first time I was served orange cheese in the US I was puzzled – I thought it was grated carrot and that it was an odd thing to accompany Fajitas. 
How about the click of cell phone cameras? It’s feedback… and also serves the purpose of allowing others to know when a photo has been taken… but it’s an added sound as there is no mechanical release.
People buy white pines as Christmas trees somewhere?? I can’t think of a worse possible Christmas tree considering they have so few branches. Around here most people don’t even bother trying to decorate them as they grow in their yards.
Yes. They look pretty bushy, actually: http://www.madison-christmas-trees.com/white-pine.php
Maybe a different species with the same common name, or a different growing environment.
Maybe not, but reusing bottles can be cost effective, it seems, since that’s what happens in Québec. When you buy beer you pay a deposit of 10 cents, and you can return them to the dépanneur/grocery store and get the deposit back. The bottles are washed, returned to brewers and reused. It’s a system that was put in place by the major brewers themselves, according to this cite (in French, sorry!) Though it seems the deposit will increase after next year, to cover costs.
That same cite says that 95% of bottles get returned and reused up to 15 times, and says that if the system didn’t exist there’d be an additional 1.4 billion bottles to melt/recycle or in landfills. Impressive, actually!
I always thought it was for privacy, so people can’t take upskirt photos. That’s why you can’t turn it off.
I think you used to be able to turn it off, but these days it’s been made unkillable as anti-pervert measure.
I’ve got the sound off on my HTC Hero and I can take a picture without the shutter noise. Maybe it’s part of the whole sound package instead?
Snopes says this is an urban legend.
(Bolding mine)
That’s why the lawmakers demanded the sound to be added: due to smaller size of cell phones, people (esp. in crowded Japanese subways, but also elsewhere) started taking photos of girls up their skirt in a crowd or of women over the stall of the toilet and similar “fun” :mad:
Cracked has an interesting list of unusual ingredients here that’s somewhat relevant.
Short version:
- Audio cables contain copper and other wire, nothing else, the rest is marketing hype
- Whitening toothpaste contains grit or other abrasive material (which is why it’s a bad thing).
- OxiClean, the great Bill Mayers product (which I learned about from that one South Park ep.) contains sodium percarbonate, which you can buy in bulk cheaper
- Head on - relieving headache by smearing a stick over your forehead - contains wax and nothing else (it’s a placebo, or in other words, a scam)
- Antiperspirants contain alumn (I think this was discussed here)
- Energy drinks contain sugar and less coffeine than a normal cup of coffee (we just discussed this)
- Gatorade is kool-aid with salt (okay, that’s simplified - the amount of salt matters to get a saline solution that’s still drinkable, avoiding too little and too much salt, and probably adding - hopefully! - a few rare minerals, too.
My father served in the Navy in the early '50s and has tales to tell of breakfasts made with powdered eggs. Not good. And my experience is that powdered milk and powdered eggs still don’t taste like “normal” fluid milk or eggs, whether you’re using them on their own or in a recipe. “Housewives felt they weren’t cooking if they didn’t add an egg” may be part of the explanation for why baking mixes so often require an egg or three, but I think the taste of the finished product was likely to be part of it as well.
Cake mixes also often require oil to be added (or did - I haven’t used a cake mix, let alone an American cake mix, in yonks), although clearly the fat can be added to the powder - witness Bisquik. Again, I think it has to do with the finished product. The cake is somehow more pleasing to the home baker when cooking oil and fresh eggs are added than when a powdered equivalent is included in the mix.
What about oxygen-free copper? I see that on some cables and I thought that made a difference.
This predates airplanes. The first carriages on the London Underground had only a few windows, quite high up, since the developers realized that there would be nothing to see during most of the ride. Passengers didn’t like that. Even if the only thing outside of the carriage was dark tunnel, they felt more secure being able to see it.
If the input is digital (a cd or mp3) it won’t make any difference. And I doubt it makes a difference for analog input.
It has to be one of the two, because, well, look.
Weights in phones and docks are actually pretty practical. You don’t want to move the phone when you pick up the handset. The old Palm dock had a hefty weight in it and it was great and never moved. My iPad dock doesn’t have a weight and it inevitably gets lifted up when I try to undock it.
That’s what duct tape is for!
I thought Head On had menthol in it. It’s supposed to be homeopathic, but they’ve been renounced by homeopathic organizations for actually having an ingredient.
Also, different cables have different connectors, although they are right about the quality once you get past a certain (rather low) point.
And I think you mean Billy Mays.
Supermarkets here have started selling meat in oxygen impermeable vacuum packs*- yes the meat is brown/purple, but it pinks up if you leave it in the air for 5 minutes and it tastes the same.