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00:23
The recently-closed question asking people for their opinions on a piece of smut was, I'm pretty sure, almost certainly an attempt to troll or otherwise mess with people
I flagged it since I refuse to believe that this was intended as a legitimate question
01:00
@alphabet Er, I just stated above that that example's fine in standard GB! ;-)
@Araucaria-Him Wait, what?? I didn't know that in BrE you could use do transitively like that.
Of course, "He did X, and I did that also" is fine
@alphabet It appears you can (and you can have non-finite forms of auxiliary do too. Both pro-verb and auxiliary DO ae different in UK/US English.)
Huh. I knew that in BrE you could have sentences like "He's cleaning the house, and she's doing also"
@alphabet Erm, don't know why (haven't analysed it), but that's crook in BrE!
I guess "He's cleaning the house, and she's doing the yard" works, but that's in the sense of "do" where it just means "handle"
@Araucaria-Him Ok now my head really hurts. I assumed that the use of doing in sentences like that meant something like doing so or doing that
01:08
@alphabet It can, but it appears it doesn't have to. "He's been feeding that cat's fish, as I've been doing the sharks" is fine for us Brits.
@Araucaria-Him Huh. That...kind of works, but only if you interpret "doing" in the same sense found in "He's doing the laundry"
What about sentences like: "His mistakes are becoming a problem, and her mistakes are doing a problem also" ?
Although it.s potentially ambiguous
For some reason, to me that sounds wrong even with primary forms of do: * "His mistakes became a problem, and hers did a problem also"
@alphabet No, but there's a few complicating factors there. Firstly, become doesn't take a DO
@Araucaria-Him How so?
01:12
@alphabet Well, they're normally considered PCs
@Araucaria-Him Ok, that must have something to do with it
Which is the main reason you can't say "The problem was become by the mistakes".
But all the different DOs are very weird, and no less so in BrE!
I guess another example would be * "Diamond can scratch sapphire, and sapphire can do emerald"
@alphabet Yes. It seems to me, without thinking too hard, that all the examples we've come up with are constructions which allow gapping - i.e. comparatives or coordinations.
@Araucaria-Him Does the "Diamond..." one sound incorrect to you also?
01:22
Actually scratch that, these kinds of do's all involve eliipsis because they're auxiliaries or preforms.
@alphabet Yes, but it's not elegant
Got to go to bed. Up early doing breakfast for the sprogs tomorrow
Ciao!
Ciao.
01:49
Looks like the question I flagged got successfully nuked
Who do those flags actually go to, out of curiosity? Like, who approves them?
Can be moderators.
Or the question is automatically deleted when it receives a certain number of flags and/or no up-votes?
@tchrist That quiz was fun. I think I got most of them correct
@Mitch Pop or soda?
@CowperKettle can't you find podcasts? Or is it that you want to hear a natural conversation?
@tchrist Soda.
@Mitch That merges with so dumb is my dialect.
01:57
Pop is what poor people or Dr. Seuss call their dad
You poor wetcoaster.
Working class, not poor.
Pa is for poor people
Would you like a dry one? I need to replace your sopping wet doily now anyway, so might as well.
@Mitch You're that guy they named the bird after, aren't you?
"Soft drinks"
The famous bird of solidarity.
02:00
Question: is orange juice, technically, a soft drink?
Yes
The common goatsucker or midge muncher:
The eastern whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus; also called "whip-o-will", "whip o' will", etc.) is a medium-sized (22–27 cm or 8.7–10.6 in) bird within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, from North America. The whip-poor-will is commonly heard within its range, but less often seen because of its camouflage. It is named onomatopoeically after its song. == Description == This medium-sized nightjar measures 22–27 cm (8+1⁄2–10+1⁄2 in) in length, spans 45–50 cm (17+1⁄2–19+1⁄2 in) across the wings and weighs 42–69 g (1+1⁄2–2+7⁄16 oz). Further standard measurements are a wing chord of 14.7 to 16...
Is gatorade? In fact: can we be honest and just start calling gatorade a "non-alcoholic soda"?
WE POOR WILL OVERCOME!
Fruit juices are in that category, along with effervescent drinks that have no alcohol.
@alphabet it's not a soda, is it?
02:01
No, you've confused soft drinks.
That stuff's 90% sugar, plus a few electrolytes that are useless unless you're like running in 90-degree heat.
@Mitch WEASEL!
Just don't drink the mulberry juice, ok? It can leave a Zionist stain on your lips and pretty soon you'll get popped.
@alphabet if you let it sit in the sun a bit longer it might ferment
@alphabet Soft drinks?
The vast majority of Gatorade are not, let's be honest, doing it for any health benefits. It's because they're pervs people who like the flavor "orange but worse" and feel better if it supposedly has some sort of benefit.
02:04
It tastes like football practice?
@Vikas Check the dictionary. Or dictionaries. They disagree about whether (say) orange juice, iced coffee, regular coffee, gatorade, etc. should strictly speaking be included in the category.
Oh I see. Yes coffee and hot tea don't seem to be soft drinks
@Mitch Like you wrung out a sweat-covered towel over a bottle of Fanta.
But iced tea is the canonical soft drink, right?
@alphabet mmm
Maybe? I think people usually use "soft drink" to mean "soda."
02:07
I'm making fun, but Gatorade is pretty good tasting to me
It's decent. Depends on the flavor.
But this convos reminded me of the association with high school football, of which I was very much not a participant.
@alphabet yes.
@alphabet yellow is good too.
What's bad about orange or orange juice? We eat kinnows in winter which is similar to orange.
Green and blue are not my first choices
> Besides the delicious beverage called Bovril (named from the root of the Latin for ox, and Lord Lytton's ‘Vril’, meaning force), the Company sends out numerous other productions.
@Vikas Do you mean orange drinks versus orange juice, or do you mean orange fruit versus orange juice?
02:10
What flavor is blue gatorade sposta be? It just tastes like "blue."
Because the answers to those two questions differ.
@Vikas nothing bad at all. Just they may or may not come under the category of soft drink
@alphabet glaciers?
Hello, people.
@Mitch That is not strictly true, especially for all three cases applying unequally. The answers are somewhat dependent on quantity, frequency or habit, and the state of the consumer's health.
@Cerberus people? Pfft. Just a bunch of stochastic parrots here.
02:13
Or a.i.'s?
@Cerberus what? Where? ducks
I've heard that, if you just mix table salt into your water bottle at the right ratio, it works as well as gatorade (for the rare cases where you actually lose electrolytes). There's no evidence that the non-sodium electrolytes do anything.
@Mitch Who knows?
Really you lose electrolytes not from exercising but from drinking water, which is why essentially all cases of dangerous electrolyte loss have been from people drinking too much water.
@alphabet I keep hearing that, but isn't that a lot of salt?
02:16
Your sweat contains salt, but your blood also contains salt, so sweating doesn't change the salt:water ratio in your blood. Replacing it with water is what reduces salt levels.
Also potassium is a fairly useful electrolyte
Orange drink no one should drink almost ever. Pure orange juice is ok in small infrequent amounts, but in excess can become problematic for blood sugar control and proper fiber consumption. Oranges are fine for nearly anybody because they aren't robbed of fiber and other nutrients. I feel like I vaguely remember that orange juice can be used by insulin-dependent diabetics with dangerously crashing blood sugar as rescue measures before their condition deteriorates further.
@Mitch Gatorade contains the same amount of salt; all the sugar and flavoring just means you can't taste it.
Is "orange drink" another name for "orange soda"?
I think of orange drink as non-fizzy
What is "orange drink"?
02:18
Synthesized orange juice (ie not from oranges)
Abominations that contain things other than orange juice, and may contain no orange juice whatsoever.
@Mitch I seem to recall that there isn't much evidence that it improves performance or health during exercise. Your potassium levels drop, like your sodium levels do, but never to dangerous levels, and there's no evidence that keeping them "normal" helps anything.
They are evil.
They taste great
@tchrist Just orange or orange juice. No versus.
02:19
@Mitch I'm having a hard time imagining this.
@Mitch Are you deaf? Why the fuck do you think they're evil! This is the goal.
As in, water added to concentrate from oranges?
What is that orange drink powder created for astronauts?
@Cerberus No, that's not what these poisons are. Let me find you some.
@Mitch Tang™ is...something else.
Or just some random soda with orangey flavour?
02:20
@Mitch If you mean Fanta: does that stuff even contain anything orange-derived?
What adult drinks soda...
@Cerberus no, water added to powder with sugar and orange food coloring
And citric acid to make it tangy
Sounds like random soda?
@tchrist Tang!
Yes. Tang.
@Cerberus These are mostly just orange kool aid. Some are fizzy, but many are not.
02:21
Tang is the powdered (and obviously noncarbonated) stuff, right?
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What is kool aid?
More random soda?
@alphabet I don't know how they make fanta but it seems identical to carbonated Tang
@Cerberus ...many? Probably not in the Netherlands.
Or random sweet artificial drinks, then?
@alphabet Oh, the underclasses drink it here.
Americanisation.
02:23
But people like you and me?
@tchrist Looks like random soda.
I drink Diet Coke. Not constantly, but certainly it's not only for the underclasses.
@Cerberus Kool Aid is grape drink. You're changing the conversation from orange to purple.
Unless you're like a level 10000 snob, in which case maybe you think soda is beneath you.
@Cerberus It has no carbonation.
02:24
@Mitch I have no idea but surely you wouldn't drink those random unhealthy drinks.
@Cerberus American Cultural Imperialism at work.
Or Diet Mountain Dew. Yes, aspartame maybe gives you cancer, but the sugar kind is way worse.
@alphabet At least it is not unhealthy except the acidity against your teeth. But why would you drink that as an adult?
There's no pop to the fizz. These are 14 that go pop. All are evil, because sodapop is nasty.
@tchrist OK random unhealthy sugar drink, then.
02:25
@Cerberus Because it's delicious. And has a tiny bit of caffeine.
@Mitch And capitalism at work, pushing food upon people that is the very cheapest to make.
@Cerberus it's really good for adding to Neutral yet, in order to purge you entire GI tract in anticipation of a colonoscopy.
I've heard.
Kool-Aid is mostly for kids, of course, or ritual suicide.
@alphabet I don't think it causes cancer.
@Cerberus Exactly.
@Mitch no no no use Pedia Lite!!
02:26
@alphabet I'm not going to comment on this, then.
@Cerberus Yeah, I think the evidence is fairly questionable on that front. Still there's probably some reason it's bad for you.
@Cerberus the people's choice
Stupid poisons.
I don't know anyone who would drink soda on a normal day. Maybe in a café when you want to order something non-alcoholic.
Or in a cocktail.
@Mitch The people's pour choice.
02:27
@Cerberus We tax all these evil things highly here in my city. We're trying to get people not to drink them so much.
@tchrist I really wish they did that here.
There is always talk about it.
@Cerberus it's most likely a direct cause of adult onset diabetes (if used everyday)
@Mitch "Most likely"?
@Mitch Who says adult? It's causing childhood type-2 diabetes!
@Cerberus everything is a probability
02:29
@Cerberus Yeah, sometimes I drink it when other people are drinking alcohol and I want to drink something that isn't water. Since I usually avoid alcohol.
It's a deadly epidemic.
So we tax the heck out of it.
The more you drink daily the more likely a future diagnosis.
This does seem to help a little. But not enough.
But not a necessary consequent.
I definitely don't drink it daily. And I avoid the kind with actual sugar.
02:30
Lots of people smoke into their nineties with no lung disease.
@Mitch That is why quantity is so important in these assertions.
@tchrist that's a recent (past 20 years trend)
The sugar kind gives you diabetes. The sugar-free kind probably isn't great for you, but you won't die.
@Mitch Yes. And?
@Cerberus many times the definition of 'many' or 'most' or a lot is unspecified because those are not clear details.
02:32
Whenever they give us lunch at work for some event, they always put out those little mini cans of regular and/or diet coke for some reason. And the one-pint water bottles that waste a ton of plastic.
@alphabet convulsions, if I remember correctly.
@Mitch But there are numbers in studies.
In rats
I also have a somewhat unhealthy relationship to energy drinks, which probably is actually dangerous.
Energy drinks?
02:34
@Cerberus I seem to recall that ours came about as a result of a citizen petition that had gathered enough signatures to get on a ballot, which then passed.
More random sugar drinks?
@alphabet what should they put the water in?
Maybe aluminum too?
@tchrist Excellent.
But I suspect this would need national law here.
@Cerberus they change. 'A lot'
@Cerberus Basically soda, usually sugar free, but with absurd amounts of caffeine.
02:34
@Cerberus "Energy" drinks are still worse. There have even been deaths, although extremely rarely. They jack you every which way but down.
@alphabet Why would you drink all of that stuff...I just don't get it.
They contain high doses of caffeine and other stimulants.
@alphabet eg Gatorade?
@Cerberus they taste good
Like for kids
For kids, yes.
Who crave sugar.
@Mitch I'd be cool to listen to a conversation as it's ongoing, and maybe join it now and then
02:37
Yes
Energy drinks originated as legal club drugs to mix with vodka and who knows what.
@Cerberus So I can be the high-energy, ultra-alert raccoon you know and...well, know. (Actually, probably 90% caffeine dependence.)
So you see them a lot in dance clubs and other pickup joints of that ilk.
Rave material.
@alphabet Sounds bad.
@CowperKettle I'm pretty sure there are podcasts on those subjects with more than one person, and also possibly interviews, questions and then responses back and forth...
02:39
> Energy drinks are considered bad for you primarily because they contain high levels of caffeine and sugar, which can lead to increased heart rate, blood pressure, anxiety, sleep disruption, and potential health complications, especially when consumed in large quantities or by individuals sensitive to stimulants; additionally, some energy drinks contain other ingredients like taurine and guarana which can further exacerbate these effects.
But scientific talk tends to speak in paragraphs rather than shorter single sentences.
Yeah doesn't sound good.
It really is not. These all have scary metallic tastes. I forget why.
Tastes like you're drinking chemicals. Every. Single. Time.
I mean, the sugar kind, like Monster Energy (well, most flavors of it), are bad for you in that respect. But I think Monster Energy is mostly for the teens, if anybody.
Which of course you are, no matter what you drink apart from stillwater. :)
02:41
@tchrist like glucose and electrolytes and citric acid
<having candy as we speak...>
Mmm, artificial lemon-lime flavoring.
There are medications that leave you with a nasty metallic taste in your mouth after they get into your system. These are just like that, but it's at the moment you drink them not a process of metabolizing them.
@Cerberus omnomnom
Wait, do adults eat candy? I mean, decent-quality chocolate, yes.
@alphabet No...
@tchrist and Postprandial Endothelial Dysfunction
I only have candy because it contains far fewer kcal than other unhealthy food.
@alphabet I have a funny feeling that is not so terribly artificial. Dried lemon and lime taste like that.
@Cerberus Lemon drops? Hard toffee to suck on? Werther's Originals? :)
02:44
@tchrist Nop! I want soft candy.
Those Lindt truffles are good.
@CowperKettle Oh really? That's interesting!
@alphabet that's not candy! They just put the chocolate for adults in that area of the grocery store by mistake.
They have a fancy-sounding name, therefore they are for adults.
@tchrist Yes. I think that what's happens to me
02:44
What are those soft mint things from the cinema called?
It's my hypothesis, one of them..
I've noticed that I feel mentally worse after high carb meals
@CowperKettle same with music (some people can't 'play' music in their head.
I don't know what the fancy word for that is .
JUNIOR MINTS
@Mitch Amusia?
@alphabet I would say chocolate is not really candy, would you?
02:47
@CowperKettle So yes, I do too, and I think most people do. When I was just out of college and we would go out for lunch as a group, there were too many buffets. We were certain Indian food contained soporific chemicals. Only sashimi and sushi without too much rice left you mentally sharp postprandially. Carb loading induces naps.
@Cerberus ...wait, what kind of candy? Aren't those usually way more calorie dense than anything else?
@tchrist I don't remember ever noticing such effects in myself.
I get sleepy because of sleep deprivation and alcohol, those have a strong effect.
@Cerberus You do not habitually overeat.
@alphabet No, fat is by far the densest. Candy doesn't really contain much fat. What I would call candy.
@tchrist Oh, there have been times.
Gummy goopy chewy things.
02:49
@CowperKettle hmm...that doesn't sound like what I thought I heard but could well be it.
@Cerberus I'd say it is. I mean, those bars of Hershey's they sell next to all the other candy definitely count.
Smarties don't make you.
@alphabet I would separate that from candy, really.
Sweet tarts.
To me, candy is high sugar but not really chocolate.
02:50
Which are not what they sound like.
Cookies and tarts I don't consider candy.
@Cerberus What then is chocolate? Dessert? :)
@Cerberus Often they're fairly high in fat. Or what do you mean by candy?
@Cerberus Yes, they aren't. That's why the brand name is a lie.
@CowperKettle anauralia?
Google for that
02:51
SweeTarts (; officially stylized as SweeTARTS) are sweet and sour candies invented under the direction of Menlo F. Smith, CEO of Sunline Inc., in 1962. The candy was created using the same small basic recipe as the already popular Pixy Stix and Lik-M-Aid (Fun Dip) products. Pixy Stix are currently manufactured by Ferrara Candy Company, a division of Ferrero. == History == In 1963, SweeTarts were introduced with the same flavors as the popular Pixy Stix: cherry, grape, lemon, lime, and orange. Taffy products are also produced with the SweeTarts brand. Sunline, Inc., became a division of the Sunmark...
@tchrist It is chocolate!
@alphabet Not what I would consider candy!
Anything that is mainly sugar but not fat.
I usually associate the term with things like Twix bars, which apparently contain 25g of sugar and 12g of fat.
So a lot of both.
@alphabet Oh, that's not what I would consider candy.
I don't have those things.
As I said, I want low fat because of the calories.
That's pretty much the only thing I'd use the term "candy" for, it's the kind of stuff you get at Halloween as a kid, and that they sell at child height under the counter at CVS.
Chocolate, if not exactly candy, is definitely candy-adjacent.
02:54
The Candyman!
Candies are the things sold at candy shops.
@Cerberus when was the last time you had candy from a souk in Damascus?
Yes, those are candies.
02:55
Hershey's chocolate bars are candy. Ritter bars are somewhat candy-adjacent. Those Taza dark chocolate things they sell at Whole Foods are not candy.
@Mitch Oh I grabbed some on my evening stroll today.
@alphabet candy-two-doors-down
@Cerberus nice stroll
We had a candyshop at the corner of the other end of my block across the street when I was very little. You could get any number of N-for-a-penny/nickel/dime candies there. You could even get enormous lollipops or jawbreakers for a quarter.
Is Damascus safe nowadays?
These are the things I buy when I want sweets but without fat. Regular standard candy.
@Mitch I believe somewhat.
02:57
Gummy anything counts as candy. What's actually in gummy worms, other than sugar? Based on the texture, maybe silicone sealant?
@tchrist any chocolate things?
@alphabet Gummy steak is more of a main course.
@tchrist My chemist has a pick-your-own candy aisle. You can fill a bag and pay by the gramme.
@Mitch Maybe chocolate kisses or M&Ms?
With gummy gravy.
Mmmm
@alphabet Probably mainly some starches and artificial gum.
02:59
Have you seen those 1-pound Hershey bars? When I was a kid I think I saw them being given out as a prize for some competition or something. Prize for "most likely to die of diabetes."
@tchrist so some chocolate is definitely in the candy category, but dark or semisweet chocolate is not because kids won't eat that adult stuff.
It's not for me to say.
@alphabet ugh
@Cerberus Huh. I have seen places like that but not often.
Definitely not in, like, ordinary convenience stores.
@alphabet I think the big chemist chains all have it, but probably also many independent ones.
03:00
Also Hershey's may well be popular and have the label chocolate...
But it literally tastes like vomit.
@Cerberus Huh. Here everything they sell is individually wrapped, or sold in large bags/boxes.
@Mitch No idea what it would be like.
@Cerberus we should check with our local expert in these matters. @M.A.R.?
@alphabet They also sell those.
Candy bars were normally a dime when I was a kid.
03:01
Though not large bags, normal bags.
I have heard that, if you didn't grow up eating Hershey's chocolate, it tastes absolutely awful.
Because I remember being astounded when I eventually noticed them selling for a quarter years later.
@Mitch He lives faaar from Damascus.
@Cerberus if you ever come across it, keep walking past. It'll ruin your idea of how great America is.
@Mitch Oh, no!
That's impossible.
03:03
@alphabet it contains some ingredient which happens to also be present in ...
@Mitch You do remember why they do that, presumably. It's so that it has a longer shelf life.
Wait for it...
Baby vomit.
The vomit of babies.
Some chemical produced a lot in babies' stomachs.
Where does Hershey get this ingredient from?
Hi, guys. Can I check with you these sentences? Do they sound natural enough to say?

1. Do you wanna go see the moon through a telescope?
2. In Afghanistan, a beard is respect.
3. The video has made me want to visit that place again.
4. What are you telling me this for? What do you want me to do for you?
5. Carsharing is basically car rental by the hour.
6. Hey, hop in. Do you hear me? Get in the car! Quick!
Milk.
It's butyric acid.
Ill leave that to your own imagination.
03:04
And the way they process it.
I was wondering if Taza chocolate, since it says it's "Mexican," would somehow be affected by tariffs. It isn't. It's made literally across the river from here.
@tchrist oh.
@MichaelRybkin "wanna" is what you say, not what you write. :)
I thought it was just a convenient way to dispose of excess baby vomit.
Now I know better.
You would lose marks in school for writing it.
03:05
@Mitch Isn't it made from like buttermilk that's been fermented or gone sour or something?
@tchrist nice. I knew it was something rather simple
I'm cross-posting this from somewhere else, but:
The butyric acid stabilizes the milk fats through lipolysis.
I'd like to insist strengthens /stɹɛŋθns/ is actually [stɹɛŋ.θn̩s].
03:06
I'm not convinced that it has only one syllable, I mean.
@alphabet woohoo! All my worries have been dispelled!
You may find this at a chemist or candy shop.
@DannyuNDos Of course it does not have only a single syllable. :)
Of course there will be lots of different kinds of liquorice here.
@alphabet oh sure bring facts and stuff into this.
03:08
A while back I learned that Twizzlers contain no actual licorice, and that too much black licorice can kill you.
@alphabet it's good if you have low blood pressure. It supposedly helps raise it.
Black licorice
Yeah don't eat bags and bags of it.
@MichaelRybkin That all sounds perfectly natural.
Red licorice is a petroleum byproduct and is not metabolized by the digestive system.
Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; IPA: LIK-ər-ish, -⁠iss) is the common name of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is extracted. The liquorice plant is an herbaceous perennial legume native to West Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe. Liquorice is used as a flavouring in confectionery, tobacco, beverages, and pharmaceuticals, and is marketed as a dietary supplement. Liquorice extracts have been used in herbalism and traditional medicine. Excessive ...
03:10
Huh. They actually make black Twizzlers that contain some trivial amount of licorice.
I've only had the red kind.
@MichaelRybkin 'a beard is respect' sounds really off, even if it might be considered grammatically following rules
> Excessive consumption of liquorice (more than 2 mg/kg [0.91 mg/lb] per day of pure glycyrrhizinic acid, a key component of liquorice) can lead to undesirable consequences. Clinically, it is suspected that overindulgence in liquorice may manifest as unexplained hypertension, low blood potassium levels (hypokalemia), and muscle weakness in individuals.
Mmm, Twizzlers.
Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; IPA: LIK-ər-ish, -⁠iss) is a confection usually flavoured and coloured black with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant Glycyrrhiza glabra. A variety of liquorice sweets are produced around the world. In North America, black liquorice is distinguished from similar confectionery varieties that do not contain liquorice extract but are manufactured in the form of similarly shaped chewy ropes or tubes and often called red liquorice. Black liquorice, together with anise extract, is also a common flavour...
You might say 'a beard shiws respect's or better, 'having a beard shows respect'
03:12
Anise tastes like.
I should buy some. Maybe online, so that the folks at the grocery store don't think I'll be using it to bribe kids into following me back to my panel van.
> Various liquorice sweets are sold in the United Kingdom, such as liquorice allsorts. Dutch, German and Nordic liquorice typically contains ammonium chloride instead of sodium chloride, prominently so in salty liquorice, which carries a salty rather than sweet flavour.
> The liquorice-root extract contains the natural sweetener glycyrrhizin, which is over 50 times sweeter than sucrose.
Ammonium chloride doesn't sound particularly appetizing.
No, it doesn't, does it?
Like dried fish reeking of lye.
An ammonia cookie is a cookie made with baking ammonia as a leavener. In the United States, they are most closely associated with Scandinavian-American cooking. It is also found in Polish cooking, where it is known as ciasteczka amoniaczki. == References ==
03:14
> Glycyrrhizin can cause potassium levels in the body to fall, triggering abnormal heart rhythms, edema (swelling), lethargy, and congestive heart failure in some people.
"Baker's ammonia" is a real product.
Well that doesn't sound good.
> Before it can be eaten, salt cod must be rehydrated and desalinated by soaking in cold water for one to three days, changing the water two to three times a day.
> Ammonium bicarbonate is used in the food industry as a leavening agent for flat baked goods, such as cookies and crackers. It was commonly used in the home before modern-day baking powder was made available. Many baking cookbooks, especially from Scandinavian countries, may still refer to it as hartshorn or hornsalt
Hákarl (an abbreviation of kæstur hákarl [ˈcʰaistʏr ˈhauːˌkʰa(r)tl̥]), referred to as fermented shark in English, is a national dish of Iceland consisting of Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. It has a strong ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste, making hákarl an acquired taste. Fermented shark is readily available in Icelandic stores and may be eaten year-round, but is most often served as part of a Þorramatur, a selection of traditional Icelandic food served at the midwinter festival þorrablót...
That's what I think of when I hear of ammonia candies. :)
Ugh, is that gonna become a trend here after we annex Greenland?
03:31
@alphabet Why does it have a panel?
@Mitch Is that salmiak?
It's nice, very chemical it must taste to foreigners.
@tchrist I would like to try it, as an ingredient of a dish.
A panel van, also known as a delivery van (United Kingdom), blind van, car-derived van or sedan delivery (United States), is a small cargo vehicle with a passenger car chassis, typically with a single front bench seat and no side windows behind the B-pillar. Panel vans are smaller than panel trucks or cargo vans, both of which use body-on-frame truck chassis.[1] As they are derived from passenger cars, the development of panel vans is typically closely linked with the passenger car models upon which they depend. North American panel vans were initially based upon the two-door station wagon models...
Also known as a "pedo van."
@tchrist Yeah, sour is nice too.
@alphabet Why is this not simply a van?
> There’s a persistence to the sour in Warheads. To prolong the pucker,
malic acid (the stuff that gives apples their natural tartness) is
coated with hydrogenated palm oil, which likely acts as an invisible
time-­release mechanism. As the oil melts, it releases hits of malic
acid. Like citric acid, large quan­tities of malic acid can cause
dental erosion and canker sores, thus the product warning: “Eating
multiple pieces within a short time period may cause a temporary
irritation to sensitive tongues and mouths.”
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@Cerberus No (or few) windows in the back.
Hmm but isn't that standard for a van?
OK so the fewer windows makes it easier to do misdeeds.
Yes. There's the stereotype of pedophiles as offering kids candy if they go back to the van with them.
Where is that stereotype from, exactly? Was there a rash of such crimes at one point?
Oh, there is someone offering candy in his van, where! I need to go there.
Yes, exactly, then you get molested.
But I get the candy.
03:46
Maybe.
For some reason, as kids we're all taught about this specific sort of scenario and the importance of avoiding it.
I remember learning in (I think) kindergarten that, if someone covers your mouth to stop you from screaming, you're supposed to grab their pinky finger and wrench their hand off.
Actually, SNL did a parody of this, literally using the van example:
Recently I watched something about a search-and-rescue effort to find a missing kid. They found him and learned that, since he'd been taught about "stranger danger," he would try to run and hide every time a rescuer came by, which is why he took so long to find.
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