{"id":625,"date":"2004-05-29T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2004\/05\/29\/625\/"},"modified":"2004-05-29T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-29T11:56:00","slug":"625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NICKNAME TRIVIA:  Back in 4th or 5th grade, the kids in my class had a nickname for <strong>Volkswagen Beetles<\/strong>: \u201cnope-a-diddles\u201d.  I never found out where that name came from or just what it meant.  Was that a widespread thing, or was it limited to my part of Jersey?  I couldn\u2019t seem to find any reference to that name on the big search engines.<\/p>\n<p>I myself never had a Beetle, don\u2019t remember even riding in one.  That was one part of the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s that just passed me right on by.  But I do remember kids in the back of a schoolbus yelling out \u201c<strong>NOPE-A-DIDDLE<\/strong>\u201d whenever a Beetle passed by.  And back then, that was just about every minute!<\/p>\n<p>HOT RECIPE ADVICE: I was looking for something new and interesting to cook the other day, so I opened a recipe book and found something called \u201c<strong>mulligatawny soup<\/strong>\u201d.  It\u2019s basically a spicy lentil soup heated up with cayenne pepper flakes; not bad.  Interestingly enough, one of the main spices in it is <strong>turmeric<\/strong>.  I had some old powdered turmeric lying around; I hardly ever use it because of its bland, earthy taste.  But I read the other day that turmeric may help to <strong>prevent<\/strong> colon cancer, as it helps to reduce inflammation down in the body\u2019s sewer system.  Perhaps that helps to explain the odd combination of pepper flakes and turmeric in the recipe; pepper is obviously an irritant, and perhaps the turmeric helps to counter it.  That won\u2019t be the first time that a food recipe has deep but unspoken wisdom behind it.  The folk who invented mulligatawny soup probably didn\u2019t have access to medical research regarding turmeric; my guess it that over time, the cooks and the consumers of the soup just felt better with it in there, and so turmeric became a traditional ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>HOWEVER<\/strong>: I did check out some other recipes on the net, and a lot of them didn\u2019t have turmeric \u2026 still, it is a traditional Indian condiment, often used in curries).<\/p>\n<p>The next time I\u2019m cooking something hot and spicy like <strong>three-alarm chili<\/strong> (vegetarian, of course), I think I\u2019ll add a tablespoon or two of turmeric.  The chili probably won\u2019t taste any better or worse, but it might get thru my system a little easier.  And at my age, easy is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICKNAME TRIVIA: Back in 4th or 5th grade, the kids in my class had a nickname for Volkswagen Beetles: \u201cnope-a-diddles\u201d. I never found out where that name came from or just what it meant. Was that a widespread thing, or was it limited to my part of Jersey? I couldn\u2019t seem to find any reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}