Stuff (trivia) that you should have known but didn't...

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At the age of 36 I've discovered that

1. Shirley McClaine and Warren Beatty were brother and sister

2. Camels store fat and not water in their humps.

People I've told about my discoveries have universally responded with 'well yeah, everyone knows that'.

Any other factoids you were well behind the curve with?

If the toaster numbers are minutes then that would also equate to how well toasted it is too, surely? Depending on what it is of course. Bagels are definitely a 1, potato waffles an 11, if it goes up that far.

Yet Walkers have somehow managed to suppress all photographic evidence of these pre 1980s crisp bags? Who knew they had such power.

www.eurotunnel.com/uk/build/ it cost £9 billion

I grew up with Golden Wonder and green should be cheese and onion, definitely and salt and vinegar blue. The weird thing is, DDs have only know Walkers yet they also get confused and think blue = salt and vinegar. I think green is a really cheese and oniony colour.

Eggs are definitely hard when they are laid. Please google it.

Ive just googled about chickens and they only lay soft shelled eggs when the y have been stressed or are short of calcium - so if anyones chickens are laying soft shelled eggs all the time they should be given calcium supplements - HTH 😀

Surely walkers did change their bags. When I was young green was cheese and onion and blue was salt and vinegar. Everyone knows that

No, bacon the 80s walkers were not the dominant crisp manufacture, it was Smiths and Golden Wonder. Golden Wonder and Smiths had green for cheese and onion and blue for salt and vinegar. Walkers had it the other way round.
Then Walkers became the dominant company and everyone got used to the Walkers way round.

I present exhibits A, B and C

Toaster numbers are not minutes.
www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/toasters-are-illuminati-tho?utm_term=.ciw5RbyN7#.yaN0ox81D

bacon = back in

And toaster numbers are not minutes, unless it is a Dualit toaster.

I once timed my toaster in one of these threads just to prove it.

I seem to remember when Walkers came out thinking 'but their colours are the wrong way round. That will be so confusing!'

Exactly Iklboo. Everyone else had it the other way round then. You had to be careful when buying Walkers.

Cows can walk up stairs but cannot walk down.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is female!

Male reindeer cast their antlers before Christmas, so they don't have any antlers at Christmas time.

Females cast their antlers in spring, growing them back in time for winter when they need their antlers to compete with other females over holes they dig in the snow to reach lichens and to provide food for their offspring.

That f-ing Rudolph has been taking the credit for years. The red nosed tw*t!

"I only found out a few years ago that the channel tunnel was under the sea bed."

Similarly, I used to think that the waters of the Mersey were sloshing above the top of and around the sides of the rail and road tunnels when I travelled through them as a child.

I timed my IKEA toaster and it's in minutes, it's not just Dualit

I have forced my mil and sil to time theirs - they agreed bemusedly and will come back to me

Hopefully it sounds like your hens are calcium deficient - I promise you that normal hens' eggs are hard even when being laid!

Cheese and onion definitely used to be green and I was born in '82, so must have changed much later than 1980 for me to recall that.

Also, I used to have chickens. The eggs are soft and harden when exposed to air. Some eggs remain soft-shelled but these are few and far between. All my books regarding chicken keeping say this. Don't believe everything Google says.

Cheese and onion definitely used to be green and I was born in '82, so must have changed much later than 1980 for me to recall that.

No, no they really didn't. You are mis remembering. Look at the pictures up thread. Walkers have always had those colours. Other brands did not. The other brands were the more common.

Our toaster (Morphy Richards)

Setting One: 2 min 4 secs
Setting Two: 2 mins 27 secs

So no it doesn't relate to minutes.

I have always just had my toaster set in the middle. But I don't always use the timer, I pop the toast out about 6 times to see how much it's toasted. I think it's
because everyone except me likes charcoal toast and I've never got out of the habit.

I can't believe there's still a debate about the colour of Walkers crisp packets. I have always thought that Walkers were the only ones who had the "wrong" colours for cheese & onion and salt & vinegar. The other crisp companies had them the "right" way round.
Walkers wanted to be remembered or recognised for being the ones with the "wrong" coloured packets, wasn't it? My mum was born in '60 and always mentions when products have been changed, like Marathon to Snickers. She hasn't once mentioned Walkers changing their colours, ha.

80s walkers were not the dominant crisp manufacture, it was Smiths and Golden Wonder. Golden Wonder and Smiths had green for cheese and onion and blue for salt and vinegar. Walkers had it the other way round.

Absolutely this until the 1980s Walkers were a regional sub-brand mostly sold in the south and the midlands. They were owned by the same people who owned Smiths and Tudor Crisps.

Smiths was the group's big national brand sold across the country Tudor (factory in Newcastle) was the regional brand for the north and Walkers (factory in Leicester) the regional brand for the south and midlands.

In the 1980s the decision was made to use Walkers as the national brand at the expense of Smiths so what people probably remember is Smiths being usurped by Walkers as the dominant brand and/or Walkers being introduced to the market if they lived in the north.

Hopefully - I also say chicken do not lay soft eggs. If your hens eggshells are soft, their food needs looking at. I kept chickens for a number of years until quite recently. If they did lay soft ones, which then hardened, then you'd always have a flat side on an egg ;)

I could just ask dp's grandad as he worked for them in their factory

TeaStory yes it would be very cool! However, just think if that container ship carrying Beemers and Range Rovers etc had crashed into the tunnel when it sank... Not such pretty fish!