Why is horse radish named as such when it is not eaten by horses ?
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name of a root.\n\nwhy is a snicker doodle name that ? doesnt look like a snicker or a doodle.
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If you like it, and they say it's healthy, eat it. If it's a matter of feelng sorry for the horse, you don't have to eat it cause someone else will. Hey, if I liked it I would eat it.
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Yes, it's required for travel and to protect a valuable animal from harm and if it causes harm or damage --- horses can be unpredictable
601885
Right this is why.... potatoes were a strange food that had never been intoduced before to france, not like now a days when you can have all mannor of strange and wonderful things. Now because it was so unusaual people were a little frightened of them, So they were introduced as being like and apple cause everyone knew what they were and liked them, so it took some of the fear away cause an apple of the earth cant be unnatural!! my french teacher told me that (she was an old french lady too to add to the arthantisity of it all) cause like you i wondered why!! hope this answers your question!
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Horse's natural habitat is grasslands and prairie.  In biome terms, Temperate Grassland
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Just because the people in "America" weren't smart enough to name their horse doesn't mean you aren't. The horses name is Dz Nutz and you LOVE riding it allday everyday.
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Wikipedia gives a few possibilities about where the name came from.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_horse
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For the same reason a prune isn't called a dried plum, as raisins aren't called dried grapes.
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I’ve a vegetarian so I’ve eaten my share of tofu based products.  I have a rule though; it can’t try to be something it isn’t.  Last year a person brought a Tofurkey to Thanksgiving dinner and no animal alive would even dare touch it.
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Some vegetables are fruits but all the fruits are not vegetables.\n*Fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues.\n*Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value, and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective.Any part of a herbaceous plant that humans eat whole or in part is a vegetable, except for culinary fruits and arguably grains, nuts, herbs, and spices. Also, mushrooms are commonly considered vegetables, despite belonging to a different biological kingdom, namely fungi (which used to be classified as plants).\n\nSo,Botanical fruits that are not vegetables are culinary fruits.
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I reckon you are using some sort of rhyming slang for having a poop outdoors but if you are serious Theres loads of urban cowboys near to where I live and they all keep horses in their suburban front/back gardens (Comical I know) they go about in traps all the time. One guy (a nutcase) close to where I live once brought his horse up to the boxroom in his mums house!! The horse used to look out the bedroom window as we walked by pretty crazy huh!!
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I believe it is from the use of rhyming to emphasise something being great! As in "the bees knees". This then became "the mutt's nuts", which translated into non-rhyming is "the dog's bollocks". WHY? I don't know.
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Grasses feed on mineral salts, carbon, and water from soil\nmosses have a kind of mix physiology allowing them to feed on non-organig substratum, and to keep water stored for a very long time span- yet not fully able to feed on their own\ncockroaches are able to eat any kind of organic matter left by other animals -including the snaps of that chestnut pie left on the table.\nbees use mainly sugar from plants and use a lot of energy to collect it within a highly organized system
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Several reasons.\n\n1) Our crop plants have been bred for the traits of being tasty and having large amounts of energy rich material in their bodies. The wild ancestors of our food crops were almost all much smaller plants and contained large amounts poisons to discourage animals from eating them. We bred them to be larger and to have no toxins so that we could eat them easily. That also makes it easy for insect pests to eat them. However things like carrotweed and onionweed for example still retain the properties of the wild forms of carrots and onions and they are very good (or bad) weeds.\n\n2) Wild plants, even weeds, don't grow in large concentrations. You might only get a patch of wild plants a few metres across, or else the plants will be scattered with only one growing every few metres. That dispersal makes it much harder for insects to find wild plants they want to eat. We plant our crops in high density and high concentration which attracts the attention of insect pests and makes them all the more damaging.\n\n3) We alter the environment of our crop plants by keeping them watered and fertilised, removing competing plants etc. That makes garden beds an ideal growing habitat for ALL plants. In contrast the shady, compacted, dry deficient environments of th natural world will only support a limited number of plant species. What that means is that there are potentially millions of species that will grow in a garden bed if they can get their seeds there. IN contrast very few species will grow in any wild habitat. Simple probability means that we are going to have more weeds in a garden bed.\n\n4) The same act of preparing favourable growing beds for crops means that the crops are healthy and lush. That makes them prime targets for insects.\n\n5) Many food and flower species are also weeds. Olive trees for example are serious weeds in Australia and blackberries are a serious weed in New Zealand. Even more flower species have become weeds. Lantana and tea tree, grown originally for their flowers, have become a serious weeds in Hawaii and Florida respectively. So it's simply not true to say that the plants we want to grow require a lot of care. Many thousands of plants that people wanted to grow have become weeds around the world.
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Where did you hear this?  You may have misheard it.  There are a lot of "horse idioms" but nothing like you describe.  Perhaps it is "Wild horses would not play tag on tender hoofs" which would mean "No, I'm not going to do that"\n\nDoes that make horse sense to you, or is it horse feathers?  Either way, remember, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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Why? Because they considered fish not meat... which it is.
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Well, you probably know grasses do not have a "calyx" or "corola;" they do have bracts and glumes.  Do you need more specific info.? I will check back.