What? How? Who?

[mme_hardy]

Deep-frying foods in vegetable oil seems like a modern American craze, but it was an ancient cooking tradition in West Africa, and one that we have inherited from enslaved people.

Akara sounds pretty tasty, but that's a bizarre sentence up there.

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[legionseagle]

This one's a doozy, too:

When Shakespeare was writing and performing in Britain, black-eyed peas were a staple crop for West African people.

"My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun/Nor her pea fritters kin to Mama's make..."

[mme_hardy]

When Adam delved and Eve span, who then put oils in a pan?

[legionseagle]

"Veggie? Or not veggie? Fat is the question."

[executrix]

If the Levellers had been in a position to have a television station, I'm sure they would have called it EveSPAN.

[legionseagle]

Oh, sorry, I forgot to wish you an - um - intense Gauda Prime Day. Your icon reminded me.

[executrix]

Why, thank you! B7--the show that reminds us that it doesn't matter if the days are lengthening if you're all dead.

[legionseagle]

It's not so much the death, it's the way one goes.

Oh.