Scathach posted:

Gridlocked posted:

Return of the #wifematerial loose corn, wet mashed something and really pink meat.

Crow Jane posted:

Would, but wouldn't try to convince myself it was bread.

Data Graham posted:

Though (as the dangerous chemistry thread noted when this came up last), the US military/NASA experimented with using it as a rocket propellant, because of course they did.

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All sorts of efforts were being made, during the late 50's, to increase propellant densities, and I was responsible (not purposely, but from being taken seriously when I didn't expect to be) for one of the strangest. Phil Pomerantz, of BuWeps, wanted me to try dimethyl mercury, Hg(CH₃)₂, as a fuel. I suggested that it might be somewhat toxic and a bit dangerous to synthesize and handle, but he assured me that it was (a) very easy to put together, and (b) as harmless as mother's milk. I was dubious, but told him that I'd see what I could do.

I looked the stuff up, and discovered that, indeed, the synthesis was easy, but that it was extremely toxic, and a long way from harmless. As I had suffered from mercury poisoning on two previous occasions and didn't care to take a chance on doing it again, I thought that it would be an excellent idea to have somebody else make the compound for me. So I phoned Rochester, and asked my contact man at Eastman Kodak if they would make a hundred pounds of dimethyl mercury and ship it to NARTS.

I heard a horrified gasp, and then a tightly controlled voice (I could hear the grinding of teeth beneath the words) informed me that if they were silly enough to synthesize that much dimethyl mercury, they would, in the process fog every square inch of photographic film in Rochester, and that, thank you just the same, Eastman was not interested. The receiver came down with a crash, and I sat back to consider the matter. An agonizing reappraisal seemed to be indicated.

cash crab posted:

cash crab posted:

Scathach posted:

WHY.

cash crab posted:

Puntification posted:

Same it looks really nice and I like all the things involved but calling it bread makes me quite irrationally angry.

Puntification posted:

Same it looks really nice and I like all the things involved but calling it bread makes me quite irrationally angry.

Scientastic posted:

Neither of those belong in this thread

DrBouvenstein posted:

April 1st, so...you know.

GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:

Picnic Princess posted:

Everything posted lately looks slimy.

Hogge Wild posted:

chitoryu12 posted:

But what color was your poop

atholbrose posted:

Trip report: Angriest Whopper

cash crab posted:

It photographs weirdly well, but the bun is just sort of unsettling. Still would.

Sakurazuka posted:

It looks like the top of a poisonous toadstool

FFT posted:

looks like rice, green and red bell peppers, and chicken in some sort of "gravy"

bet it's delicious even though the rice looks like maggots in the picture

Scientastic posted:

Neither of those belong in this thread

RareAcumen posted:

Tony Bologna posted:

Tony Bologna posted:

cash crab posted:

This bothers me on a really deep, visceral level. Like, I know what it is, but it's loving horrible to look at.

atholbrose posted:

Trip report: Angriest Whopper

One of the worst fast-food meals I've ever had was on a road trip; out of desperation, unable to find a decent-looking diner or anything, I stopped at a Burger King and had an Indy Whopper. (Yes, this was when Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull had just come out.) I was frustrated and tired, and the burger was really bland and bad, despite having "Cajun mayo" and pepperjack cheese and the like. So when someone posted an image of the Angriest Whopper, I thought: well, I wonder how different that is? And what in the world will that red bun be like?

So I went.



The burger has some impressive verticality when wrapped. I'm used to the actual burgers at a place being sad, squashed versions of the ads, but this one looked like it might actually be a bit like it.



Opened up, it looked far more like the promo image than I expected it to. I was sitting next to a window with a sticker/poster for the Angriest Whopper, and looking back and forth, I could see the same ingredients in the same order. And yes, the bun really is THAT red. Inside and out.

As for taste? I know it's the thing to do to be all hyperbolic about things in this thread, but, hey, it was pretty good. When you get a bite that has all of the flavors working together, it's nice; a bit spicy, a bit salty, a bit beefy. I find that the flame-grilled flavor at BK tends to come and go, but it was there today. I tried some of the bun on its own, and it did have a slight spicy taste in and of itself. Somewhat oddly, though, the best-tasting bits of the burger were the ones where it tasted most like a plain ol' Whopper.



I didn't know if I was going to post this possibly-gross picture of a half-eaten burger, but what the hell. You can see how violently red the inside of the bun is, there.

So, yeah, there's that. The only real thing wrong with this lunch was that, for the amount I spent, I could've gotten one of the crazy-good patty melts at the local diner with hand-made-to-order potato chips, or a huge plate of pad thai with hot and sour soup, or a basket of Dr. Insano wings and salt-and-pepper fries from the other diner, or hand-breaded clams and chowder at the new seafood joint, or or or... there are just so many good meals to be had around here in this price range that it feels weird to have gone to Burger King and had something that was, yeah, all right, but nothing extra-special.