It’s fairly recent, at least here…maybe the last 2-3 years. I used to eat at a White Castle when I was doing work in the New England region, so I got some to try out…but they weren’t very good. Nothing like I remembered the real place being anyway.
-XT
I think the frozen ones are a pretty close approximation to the real ones. The ones from the restaurants are hardly gourmet quality but I like them both.
There’s an extensive listing here.
As referenced n the brilliant song by The Wonder Stuff,** I Wish Them All Dead** from their album Construction for the Modern Idiot, arguably their last brilliant track.
Milk Bars were inventedin Sydney Australia in the 1930s as a place for people to go, as all the pubs closed at 6pm. They served milk shakes primarily, but did become the 7-11s of their day as they tended to be open longer than the traditional stores.
As noted, not Ireland. And some countries in the Commonwealth have no English-speaking heritage at all, viz Mozambique which despite having an entirely Portuguese colonial history and Portuguese being the only official language, joined the Commonwealth in 1996 as all the surrounding nations were in it.
How carefully did you actually read that article? It’s flagged as “Status: False”, and confirms that:
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… carrots are a good source of vitamin A (which is important for healthy eyesight, skin, growth, and resisting infection), eating them won’t improve vision. The purported link between carrots and markedly acute vision is a matter of lore, not of science. And it’s lore of the deliberately manufactured type.
In World War II, Britain’s air ministry spread the word that a diet of these vegetables helped pilots see Nazi bombers attacking at night. **That was a lie **intended to cover the real matter of what was underpinning the Royal Air Force’s successes: Airborne Interception Radar, also known as AI.
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Speaking of which, this is one of my favorite episodes, but it wasn’t until my second or third viewing that it dawned on me that AWESOM-O is real.
How carefully did you read Morbo’s post? He said his dad’s assertion was real, which jibes with snopes.
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God Bless You.
My wife was startled to find out the narwhal was real, but that’s kind of understandable.
I thought that the writers of The Big Bang Theory invented the game Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock, but then I learned that the game predated the show by over a decade.
Perhaps I’ve misunderstood his post … when he said
I understood him to be saying that carrots did help eyesight, but perhaps by “that one” he meant his dad’s debunking of that rather than the original UL. If so I apologise.
This just happened to me. I was looking over the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s schedule and saw an entry for guest violinist Hilary Hahn. I didn’t realize she is a real person, and not just a made-up character in 9 Chickweed Lane.
Yes, that’s what I meant. One of his stories, that “carrots helping eyesight” was WW2 propaganda, was actually true.
But I can not not see why you would not get what he meant when he said that carrots not being good for you was not not false. 
Another one I’ve just remembered, is Truckasaurus from an early episode of The Simpsons. I thought that was too over the top to have a real-life equivalent.
So that’s where his other leg is. I swear I looked all over for it. Though I still content if you look at his left foot and look at his waist and shoulders, that position is, if not impossible, certainly downright uncomfortable. Try it yourself.
They’re all looking at her like she farted - a noisy stinky fart.
Those people never saw The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, then.
Mystery Date…
Are you ready for your Mystery Date?
Don’t be late, It could be great.
So open the door for your [sigh] Mystery Date…
That was for the hamburger recipe…
I saw that movie, but didn’t remember the song.
A slightly different take on the OP…
I saw an ad for a cheesy SyFy movie, “MegaPython vs Gateroid”, starring Debbie Gibson and Tyfany. The plot involve genetically modified pythons fighting steroid pumped alligators in Florida. I thought, “That would never happen, pythons wouldn’t attack alligators, at least not full grown ones.” Then someone linked a picture showing it was true - a carcass where a python had swallowed an alligator, then had burst its gut and died. :eek:
Well, I dunno about shoes, but they give Transformers characters various personalities, and the one they were giving this character pretty much made him out to be a spaz (in the American usage) so the name made perfect sense.
In Pirates of the Carribean III: At World’s End, the council of pirate lords is a multi-ethnic assembly of rogues and villians from all over the world, including Mistress Ching.
Mistress Ching was a real person, commander of perhaps the largest pirate fleet ever assembled. The Chinese government was forced to grant her forces amnesty on generous terms because their navy was outmatched by her fleet. Fascinating stuff.
In Gene Stratton Porter’s novel A Girl of the Limberlost, one character recommends a tea of red clover bloom for another character who has cancer. I thought it was just a folk remedy, but apparently it’s actually used for this, or at least it was mentioned as useful on an episode of House.