Basil's the correct answer but my favorite pesto is made with garlic scapes. I can't wait for my hardneck garlic plants to send up their curled scapes in spring. It is really good roasted on salmon or chicken breasts.
I cut them when they first curl and they are still tender then. Occasionally one of the smaller ones is fibrous, but I mix the pesto in the food processor which takes care of that. They are also good stir-fried and pickled.
Having just Googled it, I can honestly say I have never heard that before, and I think I watched every game in that WC. It mustn't have made it across the pond, or else the British radio/tv stations rightly rumbled it as dreadful and didn’t play it.
It's probably just not rationed anymore ,-). After all, as Churchill said, the traditions of the Royal Navy are "rum, sodomy, and the lash", and the British are always oh so proud of their traditions!
southernmost capital...happy to accept Wellington, but is the Falkland Islands counted as a state? Or is it a bit of another State? As a British Overseas Territory, it is completely self-governing, has its own currency, laws and tax system, like Gibraltar, and Bermuda, only having the Queen as their Sovereign... but Britain looks after their foreign affairs, and Falkland Islanders are British citizens... Would Port Stanley then be the furthest south... I dont know the answer, the average guy in the street would say Gibraltar and Bermuda were seperate states, only asking as I write quiz for a couple of local pubs and that has been bandied around
The Falklands are definitely not a nation, a nation-state a sovereign state or independent state by any measure. As you point out, they have a lot of the trappings of a nation, but so do Hong Kong and Macau, and they are definitively not nations. I think the places included in the 'Countries of the World' quiz on this site is a pretty comprehensive listing, and amongst those countries Wellington is indisputably the world's southernmost national capital. And besides, if we do wish to count British Overseas Territories, King Edward Point in South Georgia is more southerly than Stanley.
I was grateful that 'rugby' was accepted as an answer to the Waka Waka question but it probably shouldn't be - it's like accepting Netball when the answer's Basketball.
Thanks for the endless amusement this site provides though.
The drink ration discontinued by the Royal Navy in 1970 was not rum, but rather “grog” which was a mixture of rum and water (about 1:3) and occasionally included lime juice (hence, British sailors were called “limeys.”) The name derives from the nickname of its inventor Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon, who was known as “Old Grogram,” which itself was a reference to the grogram fabric from which his cloak was made. All details from Wikipedia
I would've never gotten that question if she hadn't lol
Thanks for the endless amusement this site provides though.