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In last week’s thread, we discovered that some of our Freeper Friends don’t like lima beans, and joked about doing a thread on ‘despised foods’. Instead, let’s just call it ‘less universally enjoyed’ foods; and here’s my Lima Bean Casserole recipe. I can’t recall where I got it, and the original recipe called for frozen limas; but I learned that canned ones work a lot better in this recipe. Cheesy Lima Bean Casserole 2 pks. frozen lima beans, cooked (20 oz.) Or equivalent canned 1 C. each cottage cheese and sour cream ½ C. finely diced sweet onion 2 cloves...

Why do many food plants contain cyanide? In murder mysteries, the detective usually diagnoses cyanide poisoning by the scent of bitter almonds wafting from the corpse. The detective knows what many of us might find surprising — that the deadly poison cyanide is naturally present in bitter almonds and many other plants used as food, including apples, peaches, apricots, lima beans, barley, sorghum, flaxseed and bamboo shoots.There's a reason that cyanide exists in all these plants, and it is — to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes — evolutionary, suggests Kenneth M. Olsen, PhD, an assistant professor of biology in Arts &...

Source: Association for Psychological Science Date: September 26, 2007 Why Few People Are Devoid Of Racial Bias Science Daily — Why are some individuals not prejudiced? That is the question posed by a provocative new study appearing in the September issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The authors investigate how some individuals are able to avoid prejudicial biases despite the pervasive human tendency to favor one's own group. Robert Livingston of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Brian Drwecki of the University of Wisconsin conducted studies that examined white college students...

Man Likes Name On Car Tags, But Not 666 Christian Plans To Get New PlatesPOSTED: 11:03 am EST November 16, 2005 EAU CLAIRE, Wis. -- Ken Hasenmueller doesn't want the sign of the devil on his red Oldsmobile. He was randomly assigned the Wisconsin license plate number 666-KEN. Hasenmueller said at first he thought it was kind of cool, having tags with his first name. But he said he worries people might think he is a Satanist who had ordered custom plates. His wife, Jean, added that they're a very strong Christian family. DMV officials said people who find their...