So I was grocery shopping the other day, and I was buying seedless grapes and oranges. Got to thinking..."How can they keep growing these things if there are no seeds???"

Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmm"

Anyone know?

I believe they take a cutting of a tree and get it to root.

Seedless grapes, oranges, watermelon, etc. are hybrids of different varieties of seed producing plants. The hybridization of the two different plant varieties masks or turns-off the gene that produces seeds in the "offspring". Just like mules... mules are completely sterile ("seedless") animals and cannot reproduce. So where do mules comes from? Mules are the result of the cross breeding (hybridization) of a horse and a donkey.

Good question!

When I was in my 20's, my local grocery store ran it's weekly specials. And if they had pork on special, don't even THINK about having chicken that week, because they didn't have any in the entire store!

So on chicken week, they'd have name brand chicken breasts "on sale" (like Tyson or something). Off to the side was the throw-the-chicken-in-a-plastic-bag chicken ... what I called store brand. In the store-brand section was whole chicken, chicken legs, chicken thighs, and chicken wings but no chicken breasts!! The only breasts they had were the "sale" name brand (read EXPENSIVE) ones! Even tho' I was a kid (early 20's), I'm standing thinking "Hmmmmm..... Tyson has chicken that ONLY have breasts .... and some farmer is raising store brand chickens with NO breasts!" Hmmmmmmmm!!

And why do drive-up ATM's have instructions for the blind?

And why do drive-up ATM's have instructions for the blind?

EXACTLY!!!!!! I've always wondered that myself.

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Lol! Never thought about it!

While we're at it, when I was younger, I asked my Dad why they had to have a bell ring when the gates go down at a railroad crossing. I thought the big red flashing lights and descending gates would be enough. He told me it was so the blind drivers could be warned...... (my family has a very sarcastic sense of humor)

Sad thing is, I believed him and didn't get it for years afterward. One day I was stopped at a train and was like "Oooohhhh....." *facepalm*

Oh, another one! My SIL asked my brother why there are "bumps" on the steering wheel (you know, where your fingers go) he told her it's Braille for the blind drivers...and she believed him!!!

(Oops! It won't let me edit my above post. I meant to quote her point about the ATM machines, lol)

I've always wondered about the TV set, too!

One of the ladies at work was having trouble with her jeep, I work at the post office and at the time we had to provide our own vehicle. I asked her if she had a four or six cylinder motor, because I might have parts for her, she said she didn't know. My boss walks by and tells her to just count her lug nuts to check, and she believed him!

I always liked that McDonald's used to have a sign, or maybe they still do, that read, "Picture menus available upon request." How do you know if you can't read that they're an option?

omg, it's MCDONALDS!!!! We all know the menu! WHo needs to actually READ one!?

Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavors and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

If you can't drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?

Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called "rush hour"?

Why do we drive on "parkways" and park on "driveways"?


And why doesn't Buick rhyme with quick??

Why can't they make the airplane out of the same material they make the little black box?

Shouldn't we call them "teethbrushes"?