By In an effort to try and keep this blog a wee bit interesting I'm going to start a new trivia feature. I'll try and post some trivia at least every other Friday and might even manage to post trivia every Friday.
I will start off with some Mongolian Trivia:
- The Mongolian ruler Ghengis Khan imposed the death penalty for urinating in water because water was so precious in the Mongolian desert.
- Mongol leader Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405) executed anyone who told him a joke he had already heard.
- Tamerlane was also reputed to play polo using the skulls of enemies killed in battle.
- In the 1800s, Mongolian prisoners were fastened into a wooden box little larger than a coffin where they were left to die. Some were given food for years, but never allowed out.
- In Mongolia, camel or horse milk is stored in a cleaned horse stomach or hide bag and hung up in the ger (tent). Everyone who passes the door has to stir or hit the bag. It slowly ferments into a slightly alcoholic, cheesy, yoghurt drink which everyone drinks, even children.
- It is said that the dish steak tartar came from Mongolian warriors keeping a piece of beef under their saddles so that it is pummelled until tender as they ride around all day and then eating the steak raw.
