ALASKA TRIVIA
According to the USDA there are 680 farms in Alaska.
Alaska has a land area of about 366 million acres, with 86,238 acreas of cropland and 737,746 acres of pastureland. There are 442 acres of certified organic cropland.
Alaska Strawberries: This is a facetious nineteenth-century American euphemism for 'dried beans', which need some work to make them an into appealing meal.
The largest private industry employer in Alaska is the seafood industry.
Most of America's catch of salmon, crab, halibut, and herring come from Alaska.
During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.
A single Alaskan King Crab can yield over 6 pounds of meat. They can have more than a 6 foot leg span.
Hooch or hootch is an American slang word popular during prohibition for illegally produced alcoholic liquor. It is also a colloquialism for cheap liquor.
The word originated in the late 19th century in Alaska. A small Tlingit tribe, the Hutsnuwu (Hoochinoo) Indians lived on Admiralty island, south of Juneau, and were distilling their own alcoholic liquor from molasses in the late 19th century (they probably learned the distillation process from American trappers). The product became known as 'hoot-chinoo', 'hooch' or 'hootch', and a 'Report on the Population of Alaska' published with the 1890 U.S. census, stated that the cause of 'nearly all the trouble in this country' was 'hoochinoo' or 'hooch'.
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