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The tightly wound immature fronds, called fiddleheads, are also used as a cooked vegetable, [13] and are considered a delicacy mainly in rural areas of northeastern North America. [14] It is considered inadvisable to eat uncooked fiddleheads. [13] [15] Brown "scales" are inedible and should be scraped or rinsed off. [5]
The fiddleheads of certain ferns are eaten as a cooked leaf vegetable. The most popular of these are: Bracken, Pteridium aquilinum, found worldwide (Toxic if not cooked fully) Ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, found in northern regions worldwide, and the central/eastern part of North America (See health warning)
Formed from "terra" (earth), the term is meant to invoke the ignorance and lack of "class" implied by American English terms like "yokel," "hayseed," "hillbilly," etc. Tico (Central America) A person from Costa Rica. Tripeiro (Portugal) A person from the city of Porto. Derives from the legend that the people from the city offered all its food ...
Boys' names, on average, are more traditional than girls' names, and are less likely to be currently fashionable. This trend holds true across racial lines. There is a much quicker turnover within girls' names than boys'. Parents of girls are much more likely to demonstrate their creativity in the naming of their daughters than their sons.
The name was further popularized by the 1965 hit Beatles song "Michelle". The name peaked in usage for American girls in 1968, when it was among the five most popular names for newborn girls. The name has since declined in popularity but remains in regular use in English-speaking as well as French-speaking countries. [3] [4] [5] It is also a ...
Because of this power -- and this "closeness" -- fans have started to give themselves collective names. Some of them, surely, you're familiar with: Lady Gaga's Little Monsters, Justin Bieber's ...
It is called gobi (고비) in Korean, zenmai (ゼンマイ; 薇) in Japanese, and zǐqí or juécài (紫萁 or 蕨菜) in Chinese. [2] It is a deciduous herbaceous plant which produces separate fertile and sterile fronds. The sterile fronds are spreading, up to 80–100 cm tall, bipinnate, with pinnae 20–30 cm long and pinnules 4–6 cm long ...
While the argument for “best band on the planet” is obviously highly subjective, it’s damn near impossible to put a list together of the best punk/post-hardcore bands without including ...