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creative writing on Wikipedia
most of you probably already know that anyone can edit a Wikipedia page, well most of them at least.
A couple of years ago a friend of mine changed the entry for Chicken Salad to say that he invented it and we've been laughing at it since then.
I was out to dinner with some other friends last night and mentioned it and we all laughed. So today I had nothing to do at work so I edited the
entries for Tuna Salad, Deviled Eggs & Pasta Salad to say that my friends invented them, but I came up with some back story and put in a bunch of
details. You can check them out here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_salad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_egg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta_salad
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and heres just the parts I wrote...
TUNA SALAD:
Tuna salad as first created by Alan Leo Fontaine of Woonsocket, Rhode Island in 1864. News of a new food combination created by Liam Gray, not so far
away in Rhode Island, inspired a young Al to come up with his own concoction. Liam had mixed familiar ingredients like chicken, mayonnaise & grapes to
form what he called chicken salad. Al was inspired by this new taste and set out to come up with something similar using a seafood base.
His first attempts used the natural oils in the tuna as a substitute for the mayonnaise that Liam used in his chicken salad, but eventually Al
realized that he really needed something to hold the 'salad' together and added the mayo. When the first tuna salad was served it consisted of tuna,
mayonnaise, celery, chopped hardboiled egg, garlic and other seasonings. Onions were left out of the initial recipe because he didn’t care for them.
Later incarnations of the dish included onion and occasionally the hardboiled egg was replaced with deviled egg which was first created by his brother
Paul Fontaine.
DEVILED EGGS:
The first Deviled Eggs were created in 1866 by a young Paul Fontaine whose brother, Alan Fontaine had recently created the first tuna salad. Al used a
plain hard boiled egg in his tuna salad recipe but used additional spices to 'kick it up a notch' as he often said. Paul, not wanting to be out done
by his brother, decided to remove the yolk from some hard boiled eggs and began mixing it with seasonings to create a spiced egg. Paul’s recipe went
through many changes, but he ultimately used a combination including the boiled egg yolk mixed with mustard, garlic, finely chopped onion and an
additional seasoning of either Worcestershire sauce or horseradish. The final ingredient has been debated for years and we will probably never know
exactly what the first batch of eggs actually contained.
Paul took this boiled egg yolk mixture and filled the hollowed out 1/2 eggs using a small pastry bag then gave the finished eggs a fine dusting of
paprika. It’s not known for sure but it is widely believed that the snack was dubbed deviled eggs as a tribute to Aleister Crowley who Paul was a
devout follower of. It’s also believed that Paul participated in many pagan rituals and that the 'deviled eggs' were offered as a tribute to the dark
lord as a tainted representation of fertility.
PASTA SALAD:
The first Pasta Salad was created by Leigh Taylor Gilbert of Manville, Rhode Island in 1867. News had spread across the small state about crazy new
foods like chicken salad invented by Liam Gray as well as tuna salad & deviled eggs created by the brothers Alan & Paul Fontaine. With a strong desire
to make his mark on the budding new culinary world Leigh took inspiration from his surroundings and borrowed a page from the large Italian population
of Northern Rhode Island.
Leigh’s first 'Pasta Salad' started with simply cooked al dente elbow macaroni tossed in mayonnaise. Most people were turned off by the simple white
pasta coated in the white mayonnaise, but they did admit that they liked the idea and the taste, but it was missing something. Thinking that he should
'go big or go home' Leigh pulled out everything but the kitchen sink ready to toss it all into the pasta bowl. He finally settled on the pasta tossed
in mayo with chopped onion, celery, pitted black olives, green, red & yellow peppers as well as small cubes of sharp cheddar cheese and a regional
sausage called chorizo as well as salt, pepper and other dry spices.
In order to double his chances of success he also took that same mixture, but used a light oil & vinegar in place of the mayonnaise and topped it with
finely grated parmesan cheese. Leigh went on to work on many other creations including an early adaptation of what would become Funyons, a failed
attempt at strike-anywhere matches that seemed to spontaneously combust and he was one of the co-creators of 'cow chip bingo' but none had the lasting
impact as his pasta salad.
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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BDx13
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I think you got re-edited already!
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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XHonusWagnerX
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yeah I did.. that sucks! I'm gonna put them back up now.
Who the hell checks on that enough to change them!?
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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Also, you might wanna check the text further down the page on the deviled egg entry, as they claim that deviled eggs originated in ancient Rome.
Just sayin'.
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danzig invented deviled eggs
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Johnny_Whistle
Also, you might wanna check the text further down the page on the deviled egg entry, as they claim that deviled eggs originated in ancient Rome.
Just sayin'. |
in my original edit I changed that too, but they fixed it all. I didnt change that back again because I wanted to see how fast they erased my addition
again.
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
check out my post contributions at www.VinylNoize.com
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BDx13
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it's not as though someone is sitting around watching the deviled egg entry, but when edits are made, i'm sure they're put into a queue for volunteers
to review.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
it's not as though someone is sitting around watching the deviled egg entry |
I can imagine that happening. People power tripping over their ability to edit Wikipedia entries.
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