RRT Pot-Pourri
Nichole Martz from PA has been speeding around the Northeast on this motorized vehicle with skis on the bottom since she was 10 years old.
What is a snowmobile?
One unverified origin story of this guiding principal credits the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan and his "Khan Rule" for food that was too special to be spoiled by a brief moment on the floor.
What is the 5-second rule?
This picky eater's diet consists mainly of gum leaves, a less-common name for a plant that's toxic to most other animals.
What is a Koala?
PA RRT Coordinator, Kelly Kline, has two dogs that share their names with these two Muppet characters named after common laboratory items.
Who are Bunsen and Beaker?
In 2003, a disgruntled supermarket employee in Grand Rapids, MI contaminated 250 pounds of ground beef with an insecticide containing this active ingredient, causing over 92 reported illnesses.
What is nicotine?
The entire Maryland portion of this 2,200-mile trail has been hiked by Erin Kafka of MD.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
Enteric disease epidemiologists Shannon McGinnis and Bevin Durant Fidler attended the same university with this animal as their mascot. The great horned variety is one of the skunks only natural predators.
A sausage made from this internal organ contributed to a widespread outbreak of Listeria in grocery stores across the Northeast last year.
What is liver?
Erik Bungo from VA interned in the food safety lab in this state's Department of Agriculture, long before he would have been a colleague of Angie, Mike, and Eli.
What is Pennsylvania?
Sebastian might be sad (or not) to hear that the most common food allergen among Americans is this.
What is shellfish?
This June, AnneMarie McKenzie of MD is getting in shape to hike Mt. Bierstadt, a 14,065-foot mountain in this state.
What is Colorado?
Caroline Wilkinson of VA loves these treats commonly associated with the state of Pennsylvania and its German heritage (locally known as PA Dutch). They are called by many names throughout the US, but we are looking for the Pennsylvania name for a sandwich cake filled with frosting.
What is a whoopie pie?
Along with a bearded dragon, a cat, a rabbit, a lizard and fish, these spiders from the family Salticidae make up part of the diverse personal menagerie of Phil Harchack of PA.
What are jumping spiders?
This agriculturally-related term involving a quadruped refers to a confusing, disorganized situation often attributed to or marked by human error.
What is a goat rodeo?
manifatturi, maltagliati, mostaccioli
What are manifatturi (factories)?
guanti, gigli, girandole
What are guanti (gloves)?