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Just for donna #3

spotweldersfriend — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:07:36 GMT

How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick in metrics please?

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j*oono — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:16:37 GMT

Was it an imperial peck or a US peck?

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lakeland27 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:19:50 GMT

a bushell and a

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spotweldersfriend — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:24:57 GMT

Imperial,and while you're at it what's the air speed velocity of an unladen European swallow please

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j*oono — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:33:31 GMT

I don't believe it but you can find the answer on google!

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j*oono — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:35:18 GMT

"Although a definitive answer would of course require further measurements, published species-wide averages of wing length and body mass, initial Strouhal estimates based on those averages and cross-species comparisons, the Lund wind tunnel study of birds flying at a range of speeds, and revised Strouhal numbers based on that study all lead me to estimate that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour."

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spotweldersfriend — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:59:07 GMT

😄

I'll wager monman supplied the answer:-D

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the*scarlet*pimpernel — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:00:39 GMT

@spotweldersfriend wrote:
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick in metrics please?

How can you pick a pickled pepper? Surely you would have to pick the pepper first and then pickle it.

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*crikey*mate* — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:43:40 GMT

@spotweldersfriend wrote:
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick in metrics please?

At first the author of that verse claims that Peter picked a peck, but later questions if Peter ever did pick a peck and then ponders the whereabouts of that peck, implying that Peter's peck didn't exist, in which case the answer is 0.

But, if Peter's peck does exist and we can accept that it is impossible to know how the peppers were packed into that peck, (all in together, or portioned into little jars? was there additional packing materials in the peck around the jars? were the jars round or square?....) and are happy to go with the theory that all the peppers were packed into the peck together after they were pickled, cos that's how pecks were packed back then, then the answer is 54.

One peck equates to a bit over 9 litres liquid capacity.

1 litre of water/pickling juice weighs 1 kg.

There would be approximately 700g of raw weight peppers per kilo of pickled product.

The average size of an English pepper in 1813 (the year the verse was published) was 120g.

This means there were approximately 6 peppers per kilo of unpackaged pickled peppers.

So, I reckon, that if Peter had a peck and if that peck was full, then the peck of pickled peppers that peter Piper picked, possessed 54 pickled peppers.

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*crikey*mate* — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:01:31 GMT

@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:
@spotweldersfriend wrote:
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick in metrics please?
How can you pick a pickled pepper? Surely you would have to pick the pepper first and then pickle it.

The verse only says that Peter picked a peck, it never said he picked pickled peppers. It's really irrelevant what was in the peck, only that Peter may have picked a peck comprised of pickled peppers.

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jimmy*part4 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:37:03 GMT

@spotweldersfriend wrote:
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick in metrics please?

Pickled peppers Peter Piper picked, presuming peppers picked are possibly prepickled, are packed per parcel on palettes.

Equals 1/900th of a meter.

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*crikey*mate* — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:53:34 GMT

another male who would have us believe that ==> . <== is equivalent to 6 inches....

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Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:46:54 GMT

lol. you always go so on with it.