Food and the Body, Organs, Tissues and Cells

 

  • Arm in prayer and pretzels
  • Blood and Red Wine
  • Brain and Walnuts
  • Bones and Celery
  • Cells  and Onions
  • Ears and Pasta (orecchietti – Italian means “little ears.”
  • Eyes and
    • Red-eye gravy – ham drippings and coffee
    • Fried eggs = oua chiuri eggs = eggs that look like eyes.
    • Black-eyed peas
    • Carrots
  • Fingers and Lady finger biscuits
  • Hair and Angel hair
  • Head and cabbage
    • Old North French caboche, “head”
  • Heart  and
    • Tomato
    • Red pepper
  • Lungs and Grapes
  • Mouth
    • France puff pastry filled with creamed seafood is called a bouch’ee = mouthful
  • Nose and Parsons Nose
  • Pancreas and Sweet Potatoes
  • Stomach and Ginger
  • Toes and Garlic
  • Tummy Portugal barriga de freira = Nun’s tummy
      • sweet, eggy stuffed pastry
  • Tongue  Italian linguini = little tongue
  • Uterus and Avocado

Chinese Culture

five main organs: lung (metal), liver (wood), kidney (water), heart (fire), and spleen (earth). The five elements also represent five different colors: white (metal), green (wood), black/blue (water), red (fire), and yellow (earth).

 

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