Anchovy and Walnut Ketchup!

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The word 'ketchup' comes from the Chinese Ké Tsiap. Dutch and English sailors brought this spicy, fishy and very tomato less concoction back home with them from Asia. Europeans then added nutty ingredients like... walnuts!


A ketchup recipe in 'The complete Housewife,' published in 1727, called for anchovies, shallots, vinegar, white wine, sweet spices (cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg), pepper, and lemon peel! A tomato was finally popped into the mix in about 1801. Mmmmm..pass the fries!

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Vintage Postcard Bicycle and LightLane

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Camille Bagot would have adored LightLane. It's a concept safety gadget that paints a bike lane around your bicycle with laser light as you pedal through the night.

The system projects a virtual bike lane on the ground providing drivers with a recognizable boundry that they can easily avoid! (found on Boing Boing)

I have 210 bicycle vintage postcards in my CPAPHIL.COM shop - keyword 'velo.' Come browse through history!


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17, 177 Paris Vintage Postcards

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I love this old kooky souvenir style vintage postcard from Paris:)

Have you heard of Davey's Dance Blog? He boogies in front of famous landmarks around the world! Here he is rocking out to the song Après Moi in front of the Eiffel Tower :) It's worth a click!

I have 17,177 Paris vintage postcards in my CPAPHIL.com shop. Come browse through history!

The Wright Brother's Toys - Vintage Postcard

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In 1878 Orville and Wilbur Wright's father, who traveled often as a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, brought home a toy "helicopter" for his two younger sons. The device was based on an invention of French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse Penaud. Made of paper, bamboo and cork with a rubber band to twirl its rotor, it was about a foot long. The brothers played with it until it broke, then built their own. In later years, they pointed to their experience that toy as the initial spark of their interest in flying

I wonder what Orville and Wilbur Wright would have said about this Playmobil security check point toy?
I have 9 Wright brother vintage postcards in my CPAPHIL.COM shop. Come browse through history!


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Sock Monkeys Heart Vintage Postcards

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Hoorah for this funky sock monkey! Everybody needs a Hindu goddess in sensible elasticized wool:)

Editor: This is a vintage postcard blog. Cough up an image pronto. Stop monkeying around!

Marie: Take that you stickler! You've just been kitsched!


Bibi found these especially groovy sock monkey links!

www.craftinthecity.co.uk/a-pair-of-sock-monkeys/

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The Wonder Woman sock monkey at rarebirdfinds is Fabulous!


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Humming 'Sur le Pont D'Avignon'

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Every French child sings the beloved song 'Sur le Pont d'Avignon - On the Avignon Bridge' in nursery school and wants to dance on it!


The bridge's construction (1171 - 1185) was inspired by a local shepherd boy who was commanded by angels to build a bridge across the Rhone river. He was ridiculed until he dramaticaly 'proved' his divine inspiration by miraculously lifting a huge block of stone!

I have 55 Pont D'Avignon Vintage Postcards in my CPAPHIL.com shop. Come browse through history!

Here's a kitschy French Jean Sablone singing the song for you:)

Poisson D'Avril Vintage Postcard

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Jeanne Dupont loved fish and her son so much that she knit him this sweater. He subsequently changed his name, disowned Maman, and moved to Tahiti. The sweater was burned.


I have 41 similar vintage postcards in my CPAPHIL.com shop:)

These beautiful and fishy cards were sent out for the French holiday Poisson d'Avril!


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Vintage Postcard Shrimping - Pecheuse de Crevettes

The Shrimp by Ogden Nash

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A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp
Could catch no glimpse
Not even a glimp.
At times, translucence
Is rather a nuisance.

Shrimp are feisty 10 legged crustaceons who were certainly no match for this proud woman's net!

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Polly's Vintage Postcard Valentine

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I had an African Grey Parrot as a child who could say my name! He usually did it at night and in a spooky fashion. Mariiiiee! Mariiiiiie! Mariiiiee! Yep. I was fowl - y terrorized. He was not my Valentine:)


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Basilique du Sacré - Coeur de Montmatre in Paris Vintage Postcard

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This is the bell from Basilique du Sacré - Coeur de Montmatre in Paris. It is the largest bell in France. It weighs in at 19 tons and has a diameter of 3 meters! This is one of my favorite cards. I feel like I live and breathe history through it:)


Here is a modern photo of the church but.... I have 581 Sacre Coeur cards in my cpaphil.com shop. Have fun browsing through history:)


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