2007 was a great year for learn2serve.com, and we are looking forward to another great year of serving our clients with the most comprehensive and reasonably priced training and certification services available online.
As always, we are constantly expanding our services to better serve all 50 states and are proud to announce that we now offer NEHA certified Pennsylvania Food Safety Training online.
To kick off 2008, we’re going to do something a little more fun this month in the “what’s new” section:
As always, we are constantly expanding our services to better serve all 50 states and are proud to announce that we now offer NEHA certified Pennsylvania Food Safety Training online.
To kick off 2008, we’re going to do something a little more fun this month in the “what’s new” section:
• Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
• Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments.
• William Sokolin paid $519,750.00 for a bottle of 1787 vintage wine which supposedly had been owned by Thomas Jefferson, then later accidentally knocked it over, breaking it and spilling the precious contents on the floor.
• Of Texas' 254 counties, 79 are still completely dry seven decades after the Repeal of Prohibition.
• McDonald's restaurants in some European countries serve alcohol because otherwise, parents would be less willing to take their children to them.
• Many high school cafeterias in Europe serve alcohol to their students who choose to drink.
• Early recipes for beer included such ingredients as poppy seeds, mushrooms, aromatics, honey, sugar, bay leaves, butter and bread crumbs.
• Of all the countries with armies stationed in Bosnia, only the U. S. forbade its soldiers from consuming alcohol.
• Federal agencies and departments of the U. S. Government actually discourage public knowledge of the health benefits associated with moderate drinking. For example, the National Institutes of Health funded a study that found moderate drinkers to be less likely to suffer heart disease, but refused to allow the Harvard researcher to publish the results because it considered them "socially undesirable."
• While in some countries the penalty for driving while intoxicated can be death (yes, death), in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving. "Please believe me officer, I really was drunk."
• The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the entire world.
• The Uape Indians of the upper Amazon in Brazil mix the ashes of their cremated dead with casiri, the local alcohol beverage. All members of the deceased's family, young and old, then drink the beverage with great reverence and fond memories.
• The Aztecs of Mexico used a "rabbit scale" to describe degrees of intoxication. It ranged from very mild intoxication (a few rabbits) to heavy drunkenness (400 rabbits).
• The highest price ever paid for distilled spirits at auction was $79,552 for a 50-year-old bottle of Glenfiddich whisky in 1992.
(source: http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FunFacts/WouldYouBelieve.html)
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