4 holiday tips to celebrate like the longest-living people in the world
- Make the holidays about connecting with and celebrating family and friends.
- Remember, it’s not just about giving gifts. Blue Zone residents believe that the holiday season is meant to bring people together to celebrate their accomplishments, so gift-giving is not
- Tap into your spirituality during the holidays.
What fruit has the longest name?
- Apples. Shutterstock. You might have noticed that apples don’t tend to go bad too quickly.
- Cabbage. Shutterstock.
- Citrus fruits. Shutterstock.
- Garlic. Shutterstock.
- Pomegranates. Shutterstock.
- Onions. Shutterstock.
- Oranges. Shutterstock.
- Potatoes. Shutterstock.
Melon Cantaloupe Galia melon Honeydew Mouse melon Musk melon Watermelon
- Cantaloupe
- Galia melon
- Honeydew
- Mouse melon
- Musk melon
- Watermelon
These are the some of the common foods packaged to have a very long shelf life:
- Dried beans, 30 years
- Rolled oats, 30 years
- Pasta products, 30 years
- Potato flakes, 30 years
- Dehydrated fruit slices, 30 years
- Dehydrated carrots, 20 years
How big is the world’s largest pancake?
The world’s largest pancake. Size: 49ft 3in in diameter and 2.5 cm (1 in) thick. Weighed 6,614lbs. Where: Rochdale, Manchester, United Kingdom When: 1994 When a pancake gets to be the size of a yacht, it’s not breakfast anymore, it’s construction.
Size: The house was 45ft 6in long, 35ft 6in wide, and approximately 60ft tall. It required 14,250lbs of gingerbread, 4,750lbs of icing, and one ton of candy. Where: Mall of America, Bloomington, MN When: 2006 Robert Pelcher built this lavish and edible house with a team of volunteers. It took them nearly 1,700 hours to build the structure, which spanned 1,500 square feet. To put that in perspective, if this gingerbread house were a Midtown Manhattan apartment, it’d cost you about $10,000 a month to rent.