Topic: ¡Science! (Read 61714 times)

Sharkey · « **Reply #640 on:** February 16, 2013, 12:26:44 AM »

It's pretty much what we already knew. The best way to halt global warming is to pick a continent and kill everyone on it. Easy peasy.

Bal · « **Reply #641 on:** February 16, 2013, 06:22:14 AM »

123notit

Sharkey · « **Reply #642 on:** February 16, 2013, 01:00:49 PM »

Nominating Antarctica is cheating. Besides, they've got, like, shitloads of flame throwers.

Everybody's looking at you, Asia.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #643 on:** February 18, 2013, 01:15:01 AM »

Well, China's practically gassing themselves, already...

Mongrel · « **Reply #644 on:** February 20, 2013, 08:58:34 PM »

Extended NYT takedown on the science behind junk foods

Really good and comprehensive piece. Would have been happy to read one that was twice as long. I know "confirmation bias" and all that, but that really does put in concrete terms things I'd vaguely known were happening; that there is a staggering amount of ingenuity and intellect applied to this stuff, to the point where cigarette executives look like pikers.

Also, I almost pissed myself laughing when I learned that Oscar Mayer is owned by Philip Morris.

Esperath · « **Reply #645 on:** February 20, 2013, 09:12:01 PM »

Apparently satisfying crunch is anti-addictive.

NexAdruin · « **Reply #646 on:** February 20, 2013, 09:18:07 PM »

If satisfaction is measured as deviance from perfection, then a smaller deviance would be more satisfying and make the equation work.

Esperath · « **Reply #647 on:** February 20, 2013, 10:39:30 PM »

I can just see the tag lines now:

DORITOS SHOCKBURST: AS LITTLE SATISFACTION AS YOU CAN GET WITHOUT CAUSING A DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR

TA · « **Reply #648 on:** February 21, 2013, 12:22:49 AM »

So, the ideal addictive food is salty, very fatty, not at all crunchy, and pleasant in the mouth.

... mayonnaise?

Esperath · « **Reply #649 on:** February 21, 2013, 12:54:41 AM »

Or a smooth/melted cheese.

TA · « **Reply #650 on:** February 21, 2013, 01:00:44 AM »

Brentai · « **Reply #651 on:** February 21, 2013, 07:02:48 AM »

Blubber.

Mongrel · « **Reply #652 on:** February 21, 2013, 08:09:01 AM »

Quote from: TA on February 21, 2013, 01:00:44 AM

Argh, I was trying desperately to forget the cheese at Five Guys.

No kidding, that was literally the worst cheese I have ever had on a burger. Even McDonald's cheese is significantly ~~better~~ less awful.

TA · « **Reply #653 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:29:46 AM »

... what? Cheese at Five Guys is not canned, it's sliced.

Mongrel · « **Reply #654 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:40:57 AM »

The cheese food product I had may have originally come in slice form, but it was a semi-solid eldritch horror by the time I had anything to do with it.

That shit was fucking nasty. It was like a dollar store cheeze whiz knockoff that had been spread into a square mould, holding its shape just long enough to temporarily pass as a cheese slice. Any melting on that substance's part had little to do with heat.

Brentai · « **Reply #655 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:59:28 AM »

That's the definition of American cheese, yes. I suspect most other places serreptitiously switch out for actual Cheddar when they migrate up North.

Mongrel · « **Reply #656 on:** February 21, 2013, 05:55:34 PM »

I dunno. I know McDonalds is using the same stuff up here that they use in the US.

Thad · « **Reply #657 on:** February 21, 2013, 09:28:36 PM »

I don't know from Five Guys, but Forefathers does the Cheez Whiz thing. I'm led to understand that's an authentic Philly thing.

I was in Philly once. The place I went to did not use Cheez Whiz. I got a chicken Philly at the birthplace of Larry Fine. It had melted provolone.

Kayma · « **Reply #658 on:** February 23, 2013, 10:40:02 AM »

The secret best Philly steaks use provolone instead of cheese wiz. Don't tell anyone.

Classic · « **Reply #659 on:** February 23, 2013, 11:19:17 AM »

I'm just saying this to upset you, but everytime I hear or read "secret best" I now think of Shane Bettenhausen.

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