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| Comments on Tuesday 27 May 2003: |
| Some random new food knowledge, via Holly researching what foods will be available to me when I arrive in Australia. Apparently ingredients containing glycer or stear are bad for me, and lact is apparently often not milk-derived after all (though that's not really relevant since it gives me a cold either way). Also fun is that L-Cysteine, which you'll see often on the ingredients of American breads if you often look at the ingredients of American breads, is most often made of human hair. The L stands for soyLent! I have no problem with eating bread that contains delicious delicious human hair, but the sodium stearoyl lactylate is generally present in those same breads, so alas, no delicious hair for me. [04:19] |
| Eps |
| Don't be too frightened of our forwards ways, they differ a bit from the American standard "backwards way". The only thing you have to watch for is beetroot on your hamburgers, the dropbears love that stuff. Moral : Don't eat an Australian hamburger under a tree. (I'm talking about _real_ ozzie hamburgers here, not that crap fast food junk. Available from all patriotic corner stores that can fry a meat pattie!) -eps |
| Tom |
| I would be gubuzzled if I were to see Raven eat a hamburger of any type. I expect the only recourse would be to steal his boots. Don't you know how to bake bread? Mix up flour, yeast, warm water. Beat it up. Leave it alone. Hit it with a stick. Bake. I bake bread at least weekly, and given my explodable hair I would imagine that some makes it into the mix. You can, nay must, eat Vegemite. Otherwise you will be deported. Somebody somewhere recently did experiments that seemed to indicate that milkiness leading to colds/mucus/etc was a psychological thing. Sprayed a number of volunteers with cold virus, half were allowed to eat milk based products, half weren't. The half that were allowed to eat milk based products felt more conjested, though they produced no more conjestive juices than the people not allowed to eat milkiness. |
| RavenBlack |
| Not a very sound conclusion, though - perhaps the milk people produced *thicker* congestive fluids, thus being more congested despite the volume remaining the same. And, of course, much like the "gives me a cold either way", it doesn't really matter since feeling congested is the annoying thing, whether it's truly the case or not. |
| rpm |
| The L doesnt stand for soyLent , dunno if you were being serious or not. The L or D stands for the optical isomer of the amino acid in this case cysteine. Which funnily enough is found in hair and skin. http://www.nidlink.com/~jfromm/chem301/chem302r.htm |
| RavenBlack |
| Of course I wasn't being serious. |
| Tom |
| Don't worry, it's just another broken rpm. |
| rpm |
| np just trying to spead the gosple of science to the masses. Its hard to know whether people are serious sometimes . Some people have funny ideas and usually cant be bothered finding out if they are rght or not. but hey ignorance is bliss sometimes :P . I didnt want to say har har thats funny only for you to say "what u mean thats funny" im serious :) . U know they use the slime off the outside of some seaweed to stop ice cream going hard in the freezer. |
| RavenBlack |
| So what does the 'U' stand for? |
| KJB |
| Agar (the seaweed stuff) is also found in some toothpastes. It's crazy, some of the stuff that's in food (and not an actual food itself). |
| RavenBlack |
| Agar is in foods too. Why does agar warrant a mention? |
| sd |
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