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American Entree FRITO PIE IN A BAG INGREDIENTS 2 green onions 1 pound ground beef 1 30-ounce can chili beans (no meat) 1 10-ounce can diced tomatoes and green chiles 6 1-ounce bags Fritos(tm) 6 […]
A burrito of burrowing owls How in the world did someone come up with the idea of calling a flock of crows a murder of crows? Were they pickled to the gills? Why not call […]
Dear Budleigh, So Barbra Streisand cloned her dog? Seriously? They can do that? Does it cost a lot? How much lightning is involved? Is the clone exactly like the original dog or more of a […]
Sometimes you just have to know where you came from. But we don’t have the money for that, so instead we decided to find out where our dog came from. So Emily found a doggie […]
According to the latest scientific findings, almost everyone outside of Sub-Saharan Africa has some Neanderthal in their DNA. I sent my DNA to The National Geographic’s Genographic Project, and, according to my results, I am […]
I recently got my DNA tested by National Geographic’s Genographic Project. Since I am a female, they could only do a really deep analysis of my mitochondrial DNA, going way back to prehistoric times. This […]
You know that show on PBS where the host has different celebrities do a DNA testing, then sometimes tells them they are related to some famous person from the past, such as Abraham Lincoln or […]
Because of the reaction to my first piece revealing some interesting aspects of my family history,* I have decided to continue with a couple more colorful revelations. Did I ever tell you about my cousin […]
So much attention is now being paid to tracing our lineages through DNA. Ancestry.com even offers deals on DNA testing. In the spirit of this new trend in extending our extended families, I would like […]
I know my roots. I am second generation American. My grandparents were among the hoards of immigrants who came to the US in the early 1900s from Europe. They settled in Little Italy New York […]