I'm surprised this hasn't been used yet for any shenanigans yet...
Only today! Best burger with 100% organic meat patty!
(* 100% sourced from the Henry Organic Memorial Ranch)
Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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Re: Things Unexpectedly Named After People
#292The most surprising one to me is MySQL, which is named after Widenius's daughter, My. My is a Vietnamese name and it's pronounced like English "me", so maybe we've been pronouncing MySQL wrong this whole time!
Re: Things Unexpectedly Named After People
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not so much you might, but you most likely would have used Baker's chocolate: Mr. German, the baker/chocolatier, worked for Baker's chocolate when he invented his dark chocolate formulation, and German's chocolate was sold under the Baker's Chocolate brand. All this took place over 150 yrs ago. The cake made from German's chocolate was invented by a housewife in the 1950's and the recipe published in a newspaper; Gen…
This sounds like one of those explinations for how they make Starbursts so juicy.
except it was just a factual description of history, condensed, but taut and clarifying of possible misconceptions, and nothing about recipes or flavors or any other organileptic properties.
Re: Things Unexpectedly Named After People
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds like one of those explinations for how they make Starbursts so juicy.
except it was just a factual description of history, condensed, but taut and clarifying of possible misconceptions, and nothing about recipes or flavors or any other organileptic properties.
I get the impression that my comment came across as an insult. If so, that was not my intent.