Pizza Personality Profile: Beware Of Meat Eaters
Almanac Helps Predict Outcome Of Dinner Dates
POSTED: 11:31 am EDT September 12, 2006
DUBLIN, N.H. -- The Old Farmer's Almanac is on newsstands again now predicting the weather by researching sunspots.
And while it predicts a harsher than normal winter, this year's edition also helps predict the outcome of dinner dates with more down-to-earth research, on pizza toppings. (Click here for predictions about a harsher winter.)
The almanac's pizza personality profile is based on work by the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. It has concluded that people who prefer one meat topping, for instance, are irritable, argumentative procrastinators "who frequently conveniently 'forget' work and home obligations."
It said natural leaders chose nontraditional toppings, such as pineapple, while the pizza with one veggie topping typically is ordered by people who make ideal parents. Such people tend to be "empathetic, understanding, well-adjusted (and) easygoing."
This year's readers can count on the 215th edition of the Almanac to help them name their kids and solve fashion dilemmas.. This edition also offers information on everything from how to impress the opposite sex to growing better vegetables.
Quick tips on making an impression:
Women: lose the shoulder pads. "You can throw them away," Editor Janice Stillman. said. "They are not coming back."
Men and women: "Use the most effective pickup line ever invented: 'Hi."'
Stillman said she laughed out loud at some of the marriage proposal essays in the new almanac. Her favorite was from a woman who wrote that her "Romeo" asked her to "fetch him another cold one" during a TV commercial.
When she delivered the beer, the woman wrote, "He looked into my eyes and said, 'How would ya like to do this full-time?"'
Published since 1792, the Old Farmer's Almanac is North America's oldest continuously published periodical. The little yellow magazine still comes with the hole in the corner so it can hang in outhouses.
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