Choppers show Farm Science Review visitors sometimes it's about 'new chrome'
LONDON, Ohio — There were three machines at this year’s Farm Science Review that definitely had people talking — and you can’t use them in the field.
Showing the farm show gawkers that new chrome can be just as exciting as new paint, three custom-built motorcycles drew a crowd at the Beck’s Hybrids and DeKalb exhibits at the Review.
Anniversaries
DeKalb commissioned Paul Teutul Jr. , part of the father/son team made famous in the Discovery Channel’s American Chopper reality TV show, to create a custom-built bike for its 100th anniversary.
An online auction for the bike will begin in January, and the winner will receive the chopper at the 2012 Farm Progress Show in Iowa. All proceeds generated from the online auction will be donated to the American Red Cross.
Beck’s Hybrids is celebrating its 75th anniversary with not just one, but two, choppers built by Paul Teutul Sr.
One is a unique “reverse trike” motorcycle, meaning there are two tires in the front, and one in the rear. According to Teutul, CEO of Orange County Choppers, it’s the first reverse trike motorcycle in his company has ever created.
More Proof French Kids are Better Than Ours: Less Ketchup
But here’s the thing – whether you agree that the French are more sophisticated, with this ketchup ban it seems as if they have a good point. Or at least half of a good point. Which is that without ketchup, kids will probably be less inclined to eat certain junk foods.
The new government decree also means schools have to “encourage” foods like spinach and broccoli, which is a good thing, of course. Bread will also be served in unlimited quantities, which is good, I suppose, unless your last name is Atkins.
The part about keeping kids connected to their cultural heritage by banning ketchup?
“Canteens [cafeterias] have a public health mission but also an educative mission,” Christophe Hebert, chairman of the National Association of Directors of Collective Restaurants, said to Fox News . “We have to ensure that children become familiar with French recipes so that they can hand them down to the following generation.
Embedded on t-shirts. Under fingernails. Ketchup is about American as, well, ketchup. I mean, zut alors — ketchup couldn't be more American if it was what Betsy Ross used to stain the stripes in her flag. Under the new French rule, ketchup in school
