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Vegi Tales

Bonus unsolved riddle

Originally published on August 20, 2010

 

Of all vegetables, typically only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. Most other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the two vegetables that are most commonly considered perennials?

 

Imagine you’re on “The Voice” singing your heart out, and NO CHAIRS TURN. [...]

Eggzactly

A science teacher told his after school class, “Whoever can get this egg into this smaller glass bottle will win no homework for a week! The rules are: the egg has to go into the bottle in one piece, and you can’t break the bottle. You can also use anything in the science lab. So, [...]

Mystery Food

Susan needed to go to the store to buy some ingredients to cook with. She started writing them down:
Butter
Milk
Eggs
Baking Soda
Cashews
Oranges
Vinegar
Lemon Juice

What was Susan making?

Pizza Party

If Giuseppe can make one pizza in 15 minutes and Gaetanno can make one pizza in 12 minutes. How many pizzas will they accumulate in a day if they work together?  Bearing in mind that Maximus takes 20 minutes to eat a pizza and he eats all day long!

Time to Make the Donuts

At the donut factory, two bakers can bake six donuts in three hours. By this same reasoning, how many bakers will it take to bake 22 donuts in 5 hours?

Cooking Catastrophes

Welcome to Crazy Cooking Catastrophes.
Today our host has decided to mix up an Antipasto Creature Feature…
Please follow these instructions carefully to unscramble [pun totally intended] the answer.

Cooking Tips:
Words like add, combine, stir in, sprinkle, garnish etc mean to add those letters to the mix.
Words like remove, drain, none left over, give, etc. mean to remove [...]

Eggzactly

There was an old lady carrying eggs in a basket on her head. Suddenly she collided with a gentleman and all the eggs were broken. The man was ready to pay her compensation for her eggs. He asked how many eggs there were. She said I am illiterate and I cannot count, but when I [...]

Coke Wars

John sells two types of coke – regular coke at $0.90 a cup and diet coke at $1 a cup. Two customers came and each bought a cup of coke within 5 minutes of each other. Both asked for “One cup of coke, please” and both gave $1 to John.
After receiving the money, John had [...]

Dozen Eggs

If eggs are 12¢ a dozen, how much would it cost for 100 eggs?

 

Eggsactly

You are a cook in a remote area with no clocks or other way of keeping time other than a four minute sandglass timer and a seven minute sandglass timer. (The kind you turn over – hourglass shaped) You do have a stove, however, with water in a pot already boiling. Somebody asks you for [...]