Learn Something Every Day

Submit a fact to the website Learn Something Every Day and you may see it turned into a brightly-colored poster. There’s a new fact posted each day. They don’t even have to be factual facts, since Mel Blanc was not allergic to carrots. Link -via Everlasting Blort

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“They don’t even have to be factual facts”

Means lies, falsehoods, and mental trash. Still, if people pick up these "facts" and then spout them at meetings and parties, we can laugh at them for being stoopid.
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"They don’t even have to be factual facts"

Uh... Duh?

This has got to be one of the most intellectually insulting and lazy posts I've ever seen on Neatorama. Your standards are really slipping. This post exemplifies why I now check here once a week instead of every day.
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So, Nick, you only use it in bottles with a small opening.
Consumers would like it, but do the manufacturers want less waste? After all, they would end up selling less, not to mention the cost of adding the coating.
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Possible problem: when the bottle is full, you tip it towards your plate and the entire contents slide out, all at once. The ketchup video demo seemed to suggest that would happen. You'd be fine with a squeezy bottle, which can be controlled with the squeezing action, but in open-top bottles the coating seems to be TOO effective.
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Interesting, but according to one UK report, the majority of condiment waste breakdown looks something like this:

out of date: 34%
left over after cooking: 26%
left on plate: 20%
(Don't know about the other 20%)

Condiment/Herb offenders sorted by severity are:

Other sauces: 15.4%
Cook-in sauces: 12.2%
Herbs & Spices: 10.9%
Other condiment, spice, sauce, oil or herb: 10.2%
...
Mayonnaise / Salad cream: 4.6%
...
Ketchup: 2.9%

Proportion of the weight of food items purchased that is thrown away (mixed adult households)

Salad: 38.6%
Bakery: 23.9%
Vegetables: 14.7%
Confectionary: 11.1%
Meat and Fish: 10.4%
Condiments: 9.8%
Dried Food: 9.8%
...

Source: http://www.ns.is/ns/upload/files/pdf-skrar/matarskyrsla1.pdf

So, it kind of does look like it was a pet project that the researchers identified with, and the $17 billion (big scary number) is a rationalization after the initial impulse that was then carried out under the pretext of altruism, when in fact it was probably just curiosity and personal identification with the pet-peeves of condiment use.

Apparently the "Bagged Salad & Dressing" market (UK data) reached $10 billion in 2011 and was expected to grow as consumers become more health conscious. 38.6% of $10 billion is greater than 9.8% of $17 billion. Maybe they should have been working on a way to keep salad fresh longer.
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