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Feb 2014
1:37pm, 27 Feb 2014
6,301 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I was watching th eprogeam about Hormones on BBC4 last night.
That insulin initially came from Dogs' pancreas, and that a Capon is a cockerel without testicles, more tender meat apparantly, which explains why my mum was always pleased with her Capon for sunday lunch.
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Feb 2014
3:41pm, 27 Feb 2014
2,314 posts
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minardi.
[we've had capon for the last 2 Christmas lunches - delicious]
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Feb 2014
3:46pm, 27 Feb 2014
630 posts
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jacdaw
I didn't think capon was available in the uk any more; it's illegal to castrate them chemically / hormonally and fiddly (and therefore expensive) to do it surgically, so big producers don't bother.
Sometimes big hens are sold as capons, I think.
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Feb 2014
3:48pm, 27 Feb 2014
2,315 posts
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minardi.
[We get ours from our local butcher who orders them in specially]
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Feb 2014
5:46pm, 27 Feb 2014
16,730 posts
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Night-owl
Tunnocks Caramel choccie bars 5 million are made and sold every week
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Feb 2014
8:03pm, 28 Feb 2014
168 posts
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buttscratcher
Wooly mammoths were still walking the earth when the pyramids were being built
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Feb 2014
8:05pm, 28 Feb 2014
169 posts
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buttscratcher
France was still using the guillotine when starwars was released
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Mar 2014
5:18pm, 3 Mar 2014
29,094 posts
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Velociraptor
Booths does a free-coffee-every-day card like Waitrose does. And most of the uptake in Keswick is the teenagers from the school.
(This matters. It might swing Tink's school choice in the direction we want it to go.)
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Mar 2014
11:42am, 4 Mar 2014
8,406 posts
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Dvorak
The highest building in Sweden is called the Turning Torso and it situated in Malmo. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava (most famous for his work in Valencia) and has the highest residential accommodation in Europe.
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Mar 2014
2:25pm, 4 Mar 2014
1,572 posts
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Jerboa
That it would be sunny and I would get my bike out for the first time this year 
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