Comments on: 20 More Things That Are Not What They Seem

By: Parad0xfool

Parad0xfool — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:35:42 +0000

Pretty cool list!

By: Paris

Paris — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:00:58 +0000

You've got some of the numbers wrong. I've studied it, so i can say that your comment on the whole was right though.

By: Magnumto

Magnumto — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:34:08 +0000

My mother-in-law, who is German, has never yet steered me wrong on any kind of wurst ("sausage" to Texans), and she says head cheese is very good. But I agree with your very apt description and SERIOUSLY doubt I'll ever try it.

By: Magnumto

Magnumto — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:29:33 +0000

Besides the fact that something is a misnomer is the whole point of this list. Jeez JFrater, I know why you can't, but just once I'd like to see you reply to these bozos that if they don't like it, don't read it. Or ask them if they would prefer that you started charging for access to this site.

By: Alisha Crider

Alisha Crider — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:36:48 +0000

I knew at least a quarter of these already

By: Fluffy

Fluffy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:35:13 +0000

Hahaha titmouse XD

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:27:08 +0000

There’s no milk in an egg cream (at least not a brooklyn egg cream)

2 ingredients

Seltzer & Fox’s U-Bet

By: Kristiaan

Kristiaan — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:56:39 +0000

I’m afraid I have to disappoint dre..

I’m from Belgium, and French isn’t the main language. More people talk dutch (bigger population in Flanders than in Wallonia). So Dutch isn’t just “thrown in”.

And indeed, we did invent the delicious french fries! \o/

By: bef

bef — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:22:36 +0000

The photo accompanying your egg roll “fact” is actually of an order of Thai spring rolls. The sauce next to them is mai ploy, a sweet chili past. As others have mentioned, the “egg” part of egg roll is an egg wash applied to the exterior of the doughy wrap. When fried, this adds to the bubbly texture of an egg roll wrapper.

Spring rolls are wrapped in rice paper, and are usually filled with spring vegetables, such as mushrooms. The Thai variety often contain bean thread noodles. When fried, the rice paper wrapper remains smooth, as do the ones in your picture. Egg rolls have a far more varied filling, sometimes including egg.

The reason I generally hate lists like these is that idiots take the whole thing as 100% true, when I’d imagine many of these “facts” are merely recollections of the author. Articles deserve research, and facts deserve citations.

By: katerinaelaena

katerinaelaena — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:14:42 +0000

SO COOL! Thanks again for this list! I didn’t know most of them =)