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Edible? Yes. Appetizing? Not always. This week, Tidbits cooks up some unusual foods that you might not eat if you knew what they were!

• Is it offal or awful? Maybe both! Offal is the term chefs use to refer to the entrails and organs of animals, such as brains, hearts, kid-neys, liver, tongue, pancreas and glands.• When you hear the word “sweetbreads,” don’t think banana or pumpkin bread. It’s actu-ally the culinary term for the thymus glands of a lamb, pig or calf, located in the throat and neck. Most often, the glands are soaked in salt water, then poached in milk, after which they are fried. • Head cheese isn’t really cheese at all, but rather a mixture of the meat and tissue found on a pig’s skull, set in gelatin. • Remember the old advertising phrase, “There’s always room for Jell-O”? How about a gelatin mold made with meat stock? Add cold pork, chicken, hard-boiled eggs and some vegetables, and you’ll end up with a concoc-tion known as aspic. Although some cooks add unflavored gelatin to the mix for a firmer mold, traditional aspic uses the coagulated broth remaining after boiling an animal’s head and bones. • Another place you’ll see slimy gelatin cover-ing a chunk of meat is when you open up a

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EDIBLES (continued):can of SPAM. This little tin contains chopped pork shoulder and ham meat, hence the name, Spiced Meat And Ham. First manufactured in 1937, the luncheon meat was a popular staple for soldiers during World War II. Since its invention, more than seven billion cans have been sold. • At holiday time, many Norwegians fix a traditional dish known as Smalahove. This yummy dish is prepared first by torching the skin and fleece of a sheep’s head, removing the brain, then boiling the head for about three hours. Arrange some rutabagas and potatoes around it on a platter, and there you have your Christmas feast!• You’re not getting dessert when you order black pudding after a meal. Rather you’ll be served a sausage made up of animal blood, fat, rolled oats and spices. Depending on where you live, that blood could come from a pig, cow, sheep, duck or goat. Some recipes add chestnuts, sweet potato or barley to the mix. A yummy Asian snack, the pig’s blood cake, combines blood with sticky rice, fries it and serves it on a popsicle stick.

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• The process of making Polish blood soup is a tricky one. The head of a live duck must be chopped off and its blood collected in the cook-ing pot. Throw in some vinegar, onions, celery, parsley, sugar and some dumplings, and there you have it! Some cooks like to add dried fruit, such as prunes, pears or apples. • When folks down South talk about eating chit’lins, they are referring to chitterlings. This lip-smacking dish is the small intestines of pigs, boiled for several hours, then battered and fried and served with vinegar and hot sauce on the side. • Ask for a plate of menudo, and what you’ll get is an order of beef tripe, made from the rubbery lining of the stomach of a cow, sheep, goat, pig or deer. Your favorite Mexican restaurant might garnish it with jalapeno peppers. • No matter what you call them — Rocky Mountain oysters, cowboy caviar, Montana tendergroins or bull fries — it doesn’t change the fact that they are bull testicles, coated in flour and deep-fried. The people in some states love this “appetizer” so much, they hold entire festivals around them, such as Eagle, Idaho’s “World’s Largest Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed” and Montana’s “Testicle Festival.” • Not all tacos are created equal! Lengueta de la vaca are tacos made with cow tongue, while Tacos de Cabeza include all parts of the cow’s head, including eyes and lips. • The French have a beautiful name for a par-ticular variety of hot deli sandwich —langue de vache. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s cow tongue. • If you order geoduck off the menu, don’t expect to get an exotic poultry dish. It’s actu-ally the largest burrowing clam in the world and is considered a delicacy in Asian countries, selling for as much as $30 per pound. It’s one of the animal kingdom’s longest-living crea-tures, at an average of 146 years, contributing to the amazing quantity of eggs produced by the female during her lifetime — five billion! The geoduck has a long meaty siphon it uses to suck in plankton when feeding. That portion of this mollusk is usually cooked fondue-style and dipped in soy or wasabi sauce.• Folks in Sardinia, Italy, may change the way you think about cheese. Their casu marzu starts with a sheep’s milk Pecorino cheese but with one variable. Whole cheeses are left outside so that the Piophila casei or “cheese fly” can lay its eggs inside the cheese, as many as 500 eggs at one time. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae eat their way through the cheese, and their acidic digestive juices break down the cheese’s fats, resulting in a very soft cheese. There are usually thousands of little white worms in a casu marzu cheese ready for the market. It’s up to the indi-vidual diner whether to scoop out the maggots before eating. • If your plate is filled with the Bosworth, Fal-staff or Bedford Fillbasket varieties, you’ll soon be eating one of the most disliked vegetables, the Brussels sprout. This vitamin-rich crucifer-ous veggie belongs to the same family as the cabbage, collard greens, broccoli, kale and kohlrabi. Brussels sprouts were first brought to North America by French immigrants settling in Louisiana around 1800. • The Scottish regularly cook up a dish called haggis, which is a sheep’s stomach stuffed with a mixture of the liver, heart, lungs, rolled oats and a variety of spices. Some fast-food restau-rants in Scotland even have this item on their menu, deep-fat fried or as a burger on a bun. For those who don’t care to eat it, there are

contests for “haggis hurling,” a sport that has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The current record-holder threw a 1.5-pound (.68-kg) haggis a distance of 180 feet, 10 inches (55.12 m).

THAT’S SO CHEESY!Most of us eat cheese several times a week but might not know what we’re really eating. This week, Tidbits brings you some facts about the process and a few different poular types. • Even though the United States is the world’s leading producer of cheese, (Wisconsin and California are the leaders in production), Greece and France consume the most per capita. The United States also doesn’t have the most distinct varieties. Great Britain produces about 700 different cheeses, and France and Italy produce about 400 each.• The flavor, color and texture of a cheese var-ies by type of milk used, the bacteria or acids used to separate the milk, the length of aging and the addition of certain herbs or particular molds. Most cheese is made from the milk of cows, sheep or goats, although the milk of yaks, horses, buffalo, camels and even reindeer can be used. One type of Mozzarella cheese comes from the milk of a water buffalo. A very rare cheese comes from a Swedish farm that raises three moose. Because the lactation period of a moose lasts only three months, this farm’s moose produce only 660 pounds (300 kg) of cheese per year, and it sells for about $2,000 per pound ($1,000 per kg). • If you want true Roquefort cheese, look for a red sheep on the foil label. This means it has been aged in limestone caves near the village of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in the south of France. France’s King Charles VI gave sole rights for making this cheese to the village in 1411. Made from sheep’s milk, its distinctive blue veins come from the mold Pencillium roqueforti, which is injected into the cheese and grows within as it ages.• The holes in Swiss cheese are bubbles of carbon dioxide gas produced by bacteria in-troduced to the cheese. The CO2 builds up at weak points in the curd, forming bubbles. • If you’ve ever smelled Limburger cheese, you’ll remember its unpleasant odor. That’s because the bacteria that is introduced to the goat’s milk is the one found on human skin that contributes to body odor. Produced pri-marily in Germany and the Netherlands, there are only two makers of this pungent cheese in all of North America. • J.L. Kraft was responsible for introduc-ing processed cheese (often called American cheese) to the marketplace in 1915. It consists of melted cheese with added milk and butter. • What exactly was Little Miss Muffet eating as she sat on her tuffet? During the cheese-making process, the milk is separated into solid curds and the liquid whey by adding an acid (such as vinegar) or a starter bacteria to sour the milk, followed by heating. Curds are really a raw or unprocessed cheese, such as cottage cheese. • Do you know which cheese goes with which wine? A mild goat cheese is a good match with a light, fruity wine such as Sauvignon Blanc, but a strong tangy goat cheese goes best with a Burgundy. Pair up a strong-flavored cheese such as Provolone with a robust red wine like Chianti. Serve Zinfandel or Cabernet Sauvi-gnon with a mellow cheese like Gouda. The soft Brie cheese is best served with cham-pagne.

Finding Agent Orange/Kidney Cancer Link

Researchers at the Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Shreveport, La., have been taking a close look at the correlation between Agent Orange exposure and kidney cancer. They pulled the records of nearly 300 patients who’d been diagnosed with kidney cancer, and of those, 13 had been exposed to Agent Orange. There was exposure documentation on 10 of them.They’re calling the research “preliminary” as it hasn’t had a peer review, but at this point, other VA medical centers will be pooling their data as well.This is how the process begins to have an illness declared a presumptive connection to Agent Orange exposure. It will be a long haul and will include much more research, reviews and finally (one can hope) a posi-tive outcome with claims resulting in benefits.If you have kidney cancer and were exposed to Agent Orange in any of the locations where it was used or stored, make sure your paperwork is in order with the VA medical folks. File your claim. Then, down the road, you won’t have to rush to file.To see the long list of locations where Agent Orange was used in Vietnam, go to www.publichealth.va.gov, and then click on Agent Orange-Related Diseases. Then click on “exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides. If your exposure was elsewhere, there’s a link down near the bottom titled “Herbicide Tests and Storage Outside Vietnam.” Yes, this chart is buried on the site.If you want your free Agent Orange Registry Health Exam, call your closest VA hospital and ask for the VA Environmental Health Coordinator. This is not the same as a disability compensation exam, and you don’t have to be enrolled in the VA’s health-care system.

completely by waiting to have your immunization until your granddaughter gets her chickenpox immunization at 12 months; you don’t have to be immunized on the day you turn 60. Or you can be immunized before your granddaughter gets her chickenpox vaccine, and then wait to hold her and care for her for two or three weeks after you have the shot.Shingles is the bane of older people. The booklet on this illness describes it in detail and how it is treated. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 1201W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 78-year-old woman with a torn rotator cuff and arthritis in my left shoulder. My doctor says nothing can be done short of a complete shoulder replacement. Is this true? Should I get a second opinion? -- E.W.

ANSWER: The rotator cuff is a “cuff” (much like shirt cuff) of four tendons that arise from four back muscles. Those tendons swing around the shoulder joint to hold it in place. Small rotator-cuff tears heal on their own. Large tears require surgical correction. Some tears call for shoulder joint replacement, especially when the joint itself is arthritic.More than 23,000 Americans will have their shoulder joints replaced this year. Almost all will have gratifying results. They’ll be able to move their shoulder without pain. The shoulder has an excellent blood supply, so healing this joint is much faster than healing a knee or hip replacement. Furthermore, the shoulder, unlike the knee or hip, doesn’t have to support body weight, another point in its favor.A second opinion is always worthwhile. If the second doctor agrees that you need a new joint, I say go for it.

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In this high-tech world, who would have thought that a scammer could steal from people with a glue gun. Here’s how it works:At your neighborhood bank’s ATM, where you’ve gone many times to withdraw cash, you might find one day that the machine seems to be defective. Some of the keys aren’t working correctly. Specifically, after you’ve entered all your numbers, including your PIN, the “enter” button appears to be stuck. Same for the “cancel” button. They’ve been glued in place.Meanwhile, your card is stuck in the machine mid-transaction. When you go into the bank for help, the thieves appear from around the corner and either ham-mer the keys loose and complete your transaction, grabbing the money, or they use the touch-screen fea-ture, which you probably didn’t even know about.If this happens to you:--Try pressing the screen. Many locations have in-stalled touch screens. You might be able to complete or cancel your transaction and get your card back.--If you’re carrying a metal nail file or a pocketknife with gadgets on it, try to loosen the “cancel” key.--Use your cell phone to call the bank to tell them

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 59-year-old female who had a severe case of chickenpox as a child. It has been recommended that I get a shingles vaccination after my 60th birthday.However, my husband never had chickenpox, and I have a 1-month-old granddaughter. Are my husband and granddaughter at risk for becoming infected when I get the vaccine? -- J.Z.

ANSWER: The shingles vaccine Zostavax contains live but weakened virus. Transmission of the vaccine virus from someone who just received it is theoretically possible, but actually is a rare event. Your husband’s chances of catching the vaccine virus are close to zero. Although your husband says he never had chickenpox, 99 percent of adults bear evidence in their blood that they did have childhood chickenpox. Many of these people have no recollection of being sick. That might be because the infection was so mild that they never knew they were infected. Furthermore, all adults, whether they remember they had chickenpox or not, are urged to have the vaccine after their 60th birthday. Your husband can get the shot along with you.As far as your 1-month-old grandchild goes, her chance of catching the virus from a recently immunized person is small. However, you can eliminate the risk

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you’re standing outside at the ATM. When you tell them the keys are stuck, they’ll surely be right out because they’ll suspect what has happened. Whatever you do, don’t leave your card there.--In a pinch, call the police and ask for assistance.The older scams are still in play, however, so don’t let down your guard. These include:--A false front with a sleeve or skimming device in-stalled on the machine. When you insert your card, either your card number is read by a remote device, or the machine won’t let go of your card. As in the previous scenario, when you go for assistance, the scammer takes your card.--The brochure box next to the machine doesn’t just dispense literature, it also might have a camera that records every number you punch in. The thieves, likely sitting not far away, not only grab your card number, but the PIN too.--Even the keypad could be fake. Be vigilant.Remember that ATM machines that have been tam-pered with can be anywhere: the bank, retail stores, gas pumps and fast-food places with checkouts that have you swipe the card yourself.

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Crumb Topping:1 cup all-purpose flour3 tablespoons shortening2/3 cup light brown sugar, packed1 pinch salt1 pinch ground cinnamon

1. For crust: In a medium bowl, mix flour and salt. Cut shortening into flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Gradu-ally add water until combined. Press to-gether to form dough and chill for at least 1 hour or up to overnight. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness; fit into a 9-inch pie pan. Pre-heat oven to 350 F.2. For filling: Combine corn syrup, brown sugar and egg. Dissolve baking soda in hot water, stir into syrup mixture, and pour into crust.3. For topping: In a medium bowl, mix ingredients using your fingers or a pastry blender until combined. Sprinkle crumbs evenly over corn-syrup mixture. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Serves 8.

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? On Sept. 22, 1598, English playwright Ben Jon-son is indicted for manslaughter after a duel. He was very nearly hanged, but his ability to read and write saved him. He claimed “benefit of clergy,” which allowed him to be sentenced by the lenient ecclesiastical courts. Jonson was as famous in his time as Shakespeare.

? On Sept. 21, 1866, H.G. Wells, pioneer of sci-ence fiction, is born in Bromley, England. In 1895, he published his classic novel “The Time Ma-chine,” about a man who journeys to the future. The book was a success, as was “The War of the Worlds” (1898).

? On Sept. 20, 1881, Chester Arthur becomes third president to serve in one year. The year began with Rutherford B. Hayes in office. Hayes served out his term and turned over the reins to James A. Garfield. Four months later, Garfield was shot by an assassin but did not die until Sept. 19. Vice President Arthur was then sworn in as president.

? On Sept. 24, 1890, faced with the eminent de-struction of their church and way of life, Mormon leaders reluctantly issue the “Mormon Manifesto” in which they command all Latter-day Saints to uphold the laws of the nation and abandon po-lygamy.

? On Sept. 23, 1944, President Franklin D. Roo-sevelt is forced to defend his dog’s honor and his own reputation. Critics had circulated a story claiming that Roosevelt had accidentally left Fala behind while visiting the Aleutian Islands earlier that year. They accused the president of sending a Navy destroyer, at taxpayer expense of up to $20 million, to go back and pick up the dog.

? On Sept. 19, 1957, the United States detonates a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel in Nevada. The test was part of a series of 29 nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons safety tests known as Operation Plumbbob.

? On Sept. 25, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor be-comes the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice in history when she is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger. After graduating from Stanford law school in the early 1950s, no law firm in Cali-fornia would hire her because she was a woman.

1. GEOGRAPHY: Most of the Sierra Madre mountains are located in what country?

2. MATH: What term is used to describe an irrational number such as pi?

3. HISTORY: Before the start of the Civil War, in what city was the Confederacy’s provisional constitution adopted?

4. ART: What was artist Picasso’s first name?

5. TELEVISION: What was the Bionic Wom-an’s name?

6. OPERA: Who composed the opera “The Magic Flute”?

7. SCIENCE: What is the most abundant ele-ment in the known universe?

8. LANGUAGE: What does the acronym GOP stand for?

9. LITERATURE: Who wrote the book “The Naked and the Dead”?

10. MUSIC: What does the musical term “al-legro” mean?

1. In 2010, Arizona’s Stephen Drew became the third shortstop in major-league history to have at least three consecutive seasons of at least 10 triples. Name either of the other two to

do it.

2. Name the last Philadelphia Phillies pitcher before Roy Halladay (21 in 2010) to win at least 18 games in a season.

3. Who set the NFL record for most touchdowns scored by a rookie?

4. Name two of the three men’s basketball coaches who immediately preceded Brad Stevens at Butler.

5. When was the last time before 2011 that the Boston Bruins were in the Eastern Conference finals?

6. How many times was Ronaldo named FIFA World Player of the Year during his 18-year soccer career?

7. Who is the oldest mixed martial arts athlete to win a major championship?

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: During Hurricane Irene, I was kept busy contacting my town’s superintendent’s office on behalf of some of my older neighbors who were worried about evacuating with their pets. The misinformation about evacuating with pets was huge. Fortunately we were spared the flooding that took place in surrounding towns. After the storm, the fire chief told me my neighbors could have brought their pets with them as long as they were crated.Please let your readers know that many states, including Vermont, have pet evacuation laws on the books that specify exactly how and where owners can evacuate with their pets. Owners need to know them, because many emergency centers and local media did not, and citizens often were misinformed. -- S.H., Bellows Falls, Vt.

DEAR S.H.: Thank you for the heads-up! Readers, in 2006 following Hurricane Katrina, the federal government passed the PETS (Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards) Act, which requires state and local governments to include companion pets in their disaster planning and evacuation plans. Laws in each state and municipality are slightly different, so it’s important to familiarize yourself with the regulations where you reside prior to a natural disaster.For example, Louisiana and New York permit pets to ride on public transportation with their owners if an evacuation is declared. Check your state government’s website (go to www.pawscorner.com for a list of links to each state’s site) or contact the emergency planning agency by phone to get details.Of course, it’s also important to include your pet in emergency planning at home. Keep your pet’s travel crate and important documents together, along with a small kit containing food, treats, toys and medications so you can quickly grab them and go if needed.

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• It was Hungarian psychiatrist Thomas Stephen Szasz who made the following sage observation: “If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”

• The world’s most popular fruit is the banana. In the United States, people consume more bananas than apples and oranges put together.

• Thomas Jefferson was an inventor as well as a statesman, but he refused to take out patents on any of his ideas. He believed that inventions should benefit all of humanity, not just himself.

• According to those who study such things, the average American believes the ideal age -- that is, the best year of his or her life -- is 32. And when

30-somethings are asked when old age begins, the majority of men say it’s in the late 60s, while more women believe old age begins in the 70s.

• That iconic symbol of the Old West, the Pony Express, was based on the mail system used throughout the Mongol Empire in the 13th century. However, the Mongol riders often covered 125 miles in a single day, which was faster than the best record held by a Pony Express rider.

• In Nazi Germany, it was illegal to name a horse “Adolph.”

• Unless you’re from Central Florida, you’ve probably never heard of the small town of Ocoee. So you might be surprised to learn that during World War II, Ocoee earned the distinction of sending more men, per capita, to serve in the military than any other town in the United States.***Thought for the Day: “It ought to be plain / how little you gain / by getting excited / and vexed. / You’ll always be late / for the previous train, / and always in time / for the next.” -- Piet Hein

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1. Minnesota’s Zoilo Versalles (1963-65) and Jose Reyes of the New York Mets (2005-08).2. John Denny won 19 games in 1983.3. Chicago’s Gayle Sayers had 22 touchdowns in 1965.4. Barry Collier (1989-2000), Thad Matta (2000-01) and Todd Lickliter (2001-07).5. It was 1992.6. Three times -- 1996, 1997 and 2002.7. Randy Couture was 43 years, 255 days old when he won the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title in 2007.

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