Spotlight:
What's in a banana split? Well, obviously you start with a banana. Split it in half and lay it in an oblong dish. On top of it, plop three scoops of ice cream — traditionally, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. On one scoop, pour pineapple sauce; on one, chocolate syrup; and on the third,
butterscotch topping. Top it all off with whipped cream, crushed nuts and a maraschino cherry. Voilá!
Banana split! There are a few people and places that take credit for the tasty dessert. Some say it was born at a soda fountain in a drugstore in
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1904, and cost 10 cents.
Wilmington, Ohio, also likes to take credit, and to celebrate, they have an annual
Banana Split Festival June 10-11. It's not particularly good for your waistline, but it's a lot of fun!
Quote:
"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream." — Heywood Broun Corruption in Indonesia
The Singapore slink
High-end criminals from Indonesia find it convenient, all too convenient, to slip away into the city-state
Researcher in Taiwan can make flexible e-reader displays out of silk. The material not only allows for
bendy e-books, but the material is also cheap compared to existing tech. The process starts out with “liquid silk”, which is turned ...
bendy [形]（-i・er, -i・est）((略式))柔軟性のある；〈道が〉曲がりくねって；曲がるa bendy bus
連結バス.
An articulated bus (either a motor bus or trolleybus or vestibule bus), is a bus which is articulated, essentially meaning it can bend in the middle. It is usually a single-deck design, and comprises two rigid sections linked by a pivoting joint. This arrangement allows a longer legal overall length than rigid-bodied single-decker buses, and hence a higher passenger capacity, while still allowing the bus to manoeuvre adequately on the roads of its service route.
Around the English-speaking world, articulated buses have acquired several different synonyms that allude to their articulated design, such as tandem buses, bendy buses, banana buses, slinky buses, caterpillar buses and accordion buses[citation needed]. Due to their high passenger capacity, articulated buses are often used as part of bus rapid transit schemes, and can include mechanical guidance[citation needed].
Used almost exclusively on public transport bus services, articulated buses are approximately 18 metres (60 ft) in length; standard rigid-construction buses are usually 11 to 14 metres (36 to 46 ft). The common arrangement of an articulated bus is to have a forward vehicle with two axles towing a rear trailer section with a single axle, although the driving axle can be mounted on either the front or the rear vehicle. Some articulated bus models have a steering arrangement on the rearmost axle which turns slightly in opposition to the front steering axle, allowing the vehicle to negotiate turns in a crab-like fashion, similar to hook-and-ladder fire trucks operating in city environments.[1] A less common variant of the articulated bus is the bi-articulated bus, where the vehicle has two trailer sections rather than one. Their capacity is around 200 persons, and their length about 25 metres (82 ft).
slink
(slĭngk) 
v.,
slunk (
slŭngk), also
slinked,
slink·ing,
slinks.
v.intr.To move in a quiet furtive manner; sneak:
slunk away ashamed; a cat slinking through the grass toward its prey.v.tr.To give birth to prematurely:
The cow slinked its calf.n.An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely.
adj.Born prematurely.
[Middle English slinken, from Old English slincan.]
slinkingly slink'ing·ly adv.
slinky
(slĭng'kē) adj.,
-i·er,
-i·est.
- Stealthy, furtive, and sneaking.
- Informal. Graceful, sinuous, and sleek: wore a slinky outfit to the party.
slinkily slink'i·ly adv.slinkiness slink'i·ness n.
Slinky or "Lazy Spring" is a toy consisting of a
helical spring that stretches and can bounce up and down. It can perform a number of tricks, including traveling down a flight of steps end-over-end as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum.
The Singapore Sling is a cocktail that was developed sometime before 1915[1] by Ngiam Tong Boon (嚴崇文), a bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel Singapore. The original recipe used gin, Cherry Heering, Bénédictine, and fresh pineapple juice, primarily from Sarawak pineapples which enhance the flavour and create a foamy top.
Most recipes substitute bottled pineapple juice for fresh juice; soda water has to be added for foam. The hotel's recipe was recreated based on the memories of former bartenders and written notes that they were able to discover regarding the original recipe. One of the scribbled recipes is still on display at the Raffles Hotel Museum.
Recipes published in articles about Raffles Hotel prior to the 1970s are significantly different from current recipes, and "Singapore Slings" drunk elsewhere in Singapore differ from the recipe used at Raffles Hotel.
The current Raffles Hotel recipe is a heavily modified version of the original, most likely changed sometime in the 1970s by Ngiam Tong Boon's nephew. Today, many of the "Singapore Slings" served at Raffles Hotel have been pre-mixed and are dispensed using an automatic dispenser that combines both alcohol and pineapple juice to pre-set volumes. They are then blended instead of shaken to create a nice foamy top as well as to save time because of the large number of orders. However, it is still possible to request a shaken version from bartenders.
By the 1980’s the Singapore Sling was often little more than gin, bottled sweet and sour, and grenadine. With the move towards fresh juices and the re-emergence of quality products like Cherry Heering the cocktail has again become a semblance of its former self.[2]
Notes
Further reading
- "The Genealogy and Mythology of the Singapore Sling", Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh, in Mixologist: The Journal of the American Cocktail, 2007, ISBN 978-0976093701
External links
Read more:
http://www.answers.com/topic/singapore-sling#ixzz1OnvOxqgh
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