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feargale · 13-10-2018 06:11PM

Rubecula wrote: »

annual overall tea production is 5.2 million metric tonnes however I have no idea how much is black tea, don't worry though as I will look it up in my little black book.

Black tea (no milk) was the bane of bean an tí's life when Lent was strictly observed.

Which, while I think of it, leads me to a question if I may be allowed to act the interloper.

What was a Connie Dodger?

looksee · 13-10-2018 07:19PM

I should know that. The only thing that comes to mind is a kind of suet pudding, but i have no idea why i think that.

looksee · 13-10-2018 07:28PM

According to the UN 'Black tea production is projected to grow at 2.9 percent annually to reach 4.17 million tonnes by 2023' so the figure I have would be somewhat less than that.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-10-2018 12:42PM

feargale wrote: »

Black tea (no milk) was the bane of bean an tí's life when Lent was strictly observed.

Which, while I think of it, leads me to a question if I may be allowed to act the interloper.

What was a Connie Dodger?

It's some sort of Cork thing for lent but I never heard the term used except by older Cork people.

feargale · 14-10-2018 02:34PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

It's some sort of Cork thing for lent but I never heard the term used except by older Cork people.

Half marks. In the 1950s Bishop Cornelius Lucey of Cork announced that during Lent people could have elevenses consisting of a cup of tea and a biscuit. In response a local bakery produced a biscuit as big as a wheel, which was dubbed a "Connie dodger."

Water John · 14-10-2018 02:39PM

Various versions of the story. Catholic rule at the time was one main meal and two coalations each day. Some busy body went to the Bishop to inquire as to what exactly would qualify as a coalation? He said a plain biscuit or scone. So the bakers of Cork made a very generous scone and called it the Connie Dodger.

looksee · 14-10-2018 06:18PM

And in fact he was wrong anyway. A collation is the kind of small casual meal you get when you root everything vaguely edible out of the fridge and stick it on the table with bread - a posher description might be a small meal of salami, olives, tomatoes and bread.

Ted_YNWA · 14-10-2018 06:24PM

looksee wrote:

And in fact he was wrong anyway. A collation is the kind of small casual meal you get when you root everything vaguely edible out of the fridge and stick it on the table with bread - a posher description might be a small meal of salami, olives, tomatoes and bread.

Or how I make an omelette

feargale · 14-10-2018 06:24PM

looksee wrote: »

And in fact he was wrong anyway. A collation is the kind of small casual meal you get when you root everything vaguely edible out of the fridge and stick it on the table with bread - a posher description might be a small meal of salami, olives, tomatoes and bread.

Where I come from there was a collation between Fine Gael and Labour long ago. The neighbouring parish called it a collision

New Home · 14-10-2018 06:34PM

collation (n.)

late 14c., "act of bringing together and comparing," from Old French collation (13c.) "collation, comparison, discussion" (also "a light supper"), from Latin collationem (nominative collatio) "a bringing together, collection, comparison," noun of action from collatus, irregular past participle of conferre "to bring together" (see collate).

The word has had many meanings over the centuries in theology and law. It was the title of a popular 5c. religious work by John Cassian (sometimes translated into Old English as Þurhtogenes), hence the word's general sense "a compilation of lives of the Church fathers." The "light supper" sense is from the meal taken by members of a monastery at the end of the day after hearing readings from the Collation.

and from that, "colazione".

looksee · 14-10-2018 07:29PM

Well however you translate it, it was more than a mingy biscuit!

Edit: It was a term my husband used as he would have a collation on fast days, which he interpreted as a couple of pieces of bread and a non-meat accompaniment. Or a simple veggie sandwich if you like.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-10-2018 09:15PM

I'm not sure if there's an unanswered question outstanding but here's a quick one just in case.

What is Parthenogenesis?

New Home · 14-10-2018 09:19PM

Like Pallas Athena with Zeus, or Zeus with Pallas Athena? (Zeus had a headache, and she was born out of his head). Unless you were looking for something less mythological...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-10-2018 09:41PM

New Home wrote: »

Like Pallas Athena with Zeus, or Zeus with Pallas Athena? (Zeus had a headache, and she was born out of his head). Unless you were looking for something less mythological...

Not mythological at all.

New Home · 14-10-2018 09:47PM

Darn.

Ted_YNWA · 14-10-2018 09:49PM

Going by -genesis.

The beginning of whatever parteno- means

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-10-2018 10:23PM

New Home wrote: »

Darn.

You're not a million miles off though.

New Home · 14-10-2018 10:25PM

Maybe not, but I'm far enough from it not to know the actual definition without having to look it up.

looksee · 14-10-2018 10:31PM

Ok, the black tea answer is 3,200 tons (production per year)
Most tea consumed China
Teabags in their modern incarnation 1907

So I think Irish Zeus got one, Srameen got one and no-one really got the tonnage question, so lets have loadsa questions, one each from the two correct answers

New Home · 14-10-2018 10:32PM

Ok, let's see if I can make even more of a mess of this.

"Part(h)" is similar to the Latin "parturire", which is giving birth, "eno" I'm assuming is a negative, or a "without", "genesis" is beginning, so is it the birth of someone/something who/that wasn't given birth to (like Athena, which wasn't born in the usual way)?

looksee · 14-10-2018 10:34PM

Thumbs up even if you prove to be wrong! I'm impressed

New Home · 14-10-2018 10:41PM

Thanks looksee!

feargale · 14-10-2018 10:42PM

New Home wrote: »

Ok, let's see if I can make even more of a mess of this.

"Part(h)" is similar to the Latin "parturire", which is giving birth, "eno" I'm assuming is a negative, or a "without", "genesis" is beginning, so is it the birth of someone/something who/that wasn't given birth to (like Athena, which wasn't born in the usual way)?

Caesarian?

Ted_YNWA · 14-10-2018 10:45PM

Phantom pregnancy

New Home · 14-10-2018 10:48PM

Mitosis?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlYqh5OfJFk

nompere · 15-10-2018 12:00AM

50 or more years ago, I first saw parthogenesis defined as conception without sex - and it referred to the unlikely story told by the young female tourist following a private guided tour of the Acropolis!

IrishZeus · 15-10-2018 12:02AM

New Home wrote: »

Like Pallas Athena with Zeus, or Zeus with Pallas Athena? (Zeus had a headache, and she was born out of his head). Unless you were looking for something less mythological...

Keep your voice down - if my wife finds out, she’ll kill me!

New Home · 15-10-2018 12:06AM

New Home · 15-10-2018 12:06AM

She probably knows... I mean, with your track record... :rolleyes:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-10-2018 04:30PM

nompere wrote: »

50 or more years ago, I first saw parthogenesis defined as conception without sex - and it referred to the unlikely story told by the young female tourist following a private guided tour of the Acropolis!

I'll have to give it for that. It's asexual reproduction. Aphids do it and a species of lizard also.

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