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Here is the question, in terms of both safety and taste. Can you cook or fry with salad dressing? I know you can marinate with some oil type salad dressings (alot of folks use italian salad dressing to marinate chicken, steaks and pork chops, etc). However, can you actually fry foods using say, creamy salad dressings? Like creamy italian or ranch style dressing? Or, also a weird but strange question, if you are eating something and pour creamy style dressing over it, can you put it into the fridge and reheat (probably via microwave) later on and eat it again,...

Shipwreck Yields World's Oldest Salad Dressing Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News June 20, 2008 -- Olive oil infused with fragrant herbs has been identified in an ancient Greek ceramic transport jar known as an amphora, along with another container of what could be the world's oldest retsina-type wine, according to a recent Journal of Archaeological Science paper. It is the first time DNA has been extracted from shipwrecked artifacts -- the two large jars were recovered from a 2,400-year-old wrecked vessel off the Greek island of Chios. If the second jar indeed contained a retsina-like wine, which is preserved and flavored...

Thousand Island dressing stirs Muslim row Website calls on Israeli Arabs to avoid dressing after consumer discovers it contains alcohol Roee Nahmias Published: 04.13.08, 10:28 / Israel Culture No dressing for you – another product banned by MuslimsPhoto: Dana Kopel A website affiliated with the northern branch of Israel's Islamic Movement warned its readers to avoid a brand of Thousand Island dressing produced by a well-known Israeli company. The warning was issued after a local Arab discovered that the dressing contains alcohol. The Palestine 48 website called on its readers to stay away from the dressing after being approached by...

PALM BAY, Fla. -- A Palm Bay woman claims her fast-food lunch included the head and front half of a frog and she snapped a cell phone photo to prove it. Michelle Arndt, 32, told Local 6 News partner Florida Today that she ordered a salad with fried chicken strips and found the frog after eating about half of the salad. Local 6 and Florida Today have not named the restaurant where the salad was purchased. "I think it's totally disgusting," Arndt said. "Where is the other half of the frog?" Arndt said a manager took the salad and her...

Genetic analysis has revealed the contents of an ancient shipwreck dating back to the era of the Roman Republic and Athenian Empire. The cargo was olive oil flavored with oregano. Beyond discovering ingredients for Italian salad dressing on the sea floor, such research could provide a wealth of insights concerning the everyday life of ancient seafaring civilizations that would otherwise be lost at sea. An international team of U.S. and Greek researchers investigated the remains of a 2,400-year-old shipwreck that lies 230 feet (70 meters) deep, roughly a half-mile (1 kilometer) off the coast of the Greek island of Chios...

I have long been perplexed by the greenies who refuse to eat meat because they believe they would be murdering the animal. This same group of people has lobbied for decades to prove that plants are living creatures. They then eat the plants, which they say are alive, while refusing to eat meat because the animal is alive. Hypocrisy, I know. Furthermore, I remember hearing these people talk about how you are "hurting" or "torturing" trees and plants if you pull off a branch or leaf. They often equate it with pulling off one of your fingers, or limbs. With...

Source: Society of Chemical Industry Date: June 25, 2007 Potato Salad May Help the Immune System Science Daily — It has long been known that eating potatoes is good for bowel health, but new research suggests that they may also have a beneficial effect on the whole immune system. Especially if eaten cold or in a potato salad, Anne Pichon reports in Chemistry & Industry. Spanish researchers found that growing pigs fed large quantities of raw potato starch (RPS) had a healthier bowel. Not a surprise, but they also found that RPS pigs had decreased levels of white blood cells,...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) -- A judge has ordered a 17-year-old to pay a $750 fine and perform 120 hours of community service for contaminating salad dressing with semen and returning it to a suburban Chicago high school's cafeteria. DuPage County Judge Terence Sheen also placed Marco Castro on two years probation Wednesday and ordered him to write a letter of apology to Wheaton North High School officials. Castro must complete his community service work for an agency that works with AIDS patients.

A CUSTOMER says she found a dead frog in a pre-mixed Caesar salad bought from a Brisbane supermarket. Julie Lumber, of Springfield in Brisbane's west, today said she was preparing for a barbecue when the green intruder dropped out of a Caesar salad "with the works" bought from Coles at the weekend. "I opened up the bag and the frog fell out on the side of the plate. "I just went 'oh my god' and then we had a laugh about it. "I couldn't stomach French food with the frogs legs and snails and I wasn't about to try it...

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"…though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view."--William F. Buckley, National Review, Jan 11, 1956. On March 31, 900 students, faculty and community members gathered in a Western Michigan University lecture hall to hear Pat Buchanan talk about immigration and the culture war. The conservatives on campus, led by Young America's Foundation (YAF) supporter Matt Hall, had worked tirelessly to bring Buchanan to their campus. They had a track record of hosting and organizing many successful events featuring YAF speakers and...

Salad-dressing thrower a student who reads a lot Saturday, April 02, 2005 Barbara Walters The Paw Paw man who threw salad dressing over the head and shirt of the conservative political figure Pat Buchanan at Western Michigan University Thursday makes his living as a prep cook at an "upscale place" in Kalamazoo, he said. Samuel Mesick, 24, also is a full-time student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College with no declared major, according to school records. A 1998 graduate of Paw Paw High School, Mesick faces a misdemeanor charge for disturbing the peace when he is arraigned April 14. Western police...

PAGE ONE advertisement Crucial Ingredient As Border Tightens, Growers See Threat to 'Winter Salad Bowl' Yuma, Ariz., Relies on Muscle From Illegal Immigrants; Security vs. Economics A Job Americans Won't Do By MIRIAM JORDAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 11, 2005; Page A1 YUMA, Ariz. -- Shortly before Thanksgiving last year, Tom Nassif did something few law-abiding citizens would ever think to do: He called the U.S. Border Patrol here and suggested agents stop manning a highway checkpoint intended to keep illegal immigrants out of the country. A former U.S. ambassador and currently the president of a...

AURORA, Colo. -- Aurora police have reviewed a weekend incident in which a man accused of stealing salad from a Chuck E. Cheese salad bar was hit with a stun gun twice by officers and said that proper procedures were followed. The incident began at 4:05 p.m. Sunday when officers were called to the restaurant on a report of a larceny in progress. Police talked to the Chuck E. Cheese manager, who told them that a customer had refused to show proof that he had paid for food. The manager said the man was seen "loading" his plate at the...

FDA: Outbreaks May Be From Salad Packages May 22,2004 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators are alerting consumers that raw basil and spring mix salad may be linked to food-poisoning outbreaks that reportedly sickened more than 90 people in Illinois and Texas. The Food and Drug Administration issued the alert late Friday. The agency has been working with the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to determine the source of the outbreaks of cyclosporiasis, an infection in the small intestine. Cyclosporiasis can cause flu-like symptoms such as diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, muscle aches and fever. Signs of infection usually develop...

Meet Joe Dirt Stuart K. Hayashi In 2001, comedian David Spade came out with a movie titled "The Adventures of Joe Dirt." It now appears that the film was about Joe Conason, the author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" and an editorialist for the liberal-biased Salon.com. In the person of Brad Pitt, you've already Met Joe Black. Now Meet the Real Joe Dirt. His book purports to expose how right-wingers harness the corporate media to brainwash society. Instead of demonstrating such, however, Joe is too busy flinging his Dirt around. In two...

<p>TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — Too little food at a dinner party can leave a bad taste in the mouths of your guests.</p> <p>So, apparently, can too much salad.</p> <p>A couple abruptly ended a Memorial Day bash they were throwing for a few guests after Sandra Garner complained her husband, Darryl, made too much salad.</p>