Gotta say, if you’re going to feed mind-altering drugs that create susceptibility to certain specific trigger-words to the general public, putting it in everybody’s PB&J is pretty much the smart way to go.
There’s actually a website dedicated to pointing that stuff out in brandnames and brand logos. Exxon-Mobile has the Knights Templar cross turned sideways to form the ‘x’s for example.
Its called Rheology and its a real thing. We used to use little calibrated slopes to see how sticky jams are. Now we measure the torque taken to spin a Plate with jam on it.
I know just enough about rheology to be able to see why it matters, know that it factors into regulations about food manufacture & marketing, and understand Fardin (2014).
[M.A. Fardin, “On the rheology of cats”, _Rheology_Bulletin_, July 2014, which a web search will turn up a PDF of.]
Um, the spinning plate test … is it that less-sticky jams let the plate spin more easily because shear means you don’t have to accelerate all the thickness of the jam at once?
It’s subliminal. Her nose tells her that it’s strawberry jam, but she doesn’t want to know that, so the only piece of info getting through her willful blindness is that it’s red.
But since it’s niggling at her head that there’s Something about those blobs, she foolishly asks and can no longer ignore the truth.
With a name like Smuckers, it *has* to be a conspiracy.
It tastes like … clandestine.
I knew something was amiss when they removed that from the label not that long ago…
Gotta say, if you’re going to feed mind-altering drugs that create susceptibility to certain specific trigger-words to the general public, putting it in everybody’s PB&J is pretty much the smart way to go.
Smuckers is for schmucks.
There’s actually a website dedicated to pointing that stuff out in brandnames and brand logos. Exxon-Mobile has the Knights Templar cross turned sideways to form the ‘x’s for example.
Smuckers probably owns all those brands anyway. Still mad they bought up the Knotts Berry Farm jam rights and then stopped making it.
Might not be an evil conspiracy, but I sure didn’t like it.
I guess they did bring it back, or sold it to someone who did. But still!
Nah, they’ve got competition from the Sauer’s brands and Monarch.
Its called Rheology and its a real thing. We used to use little calibrated slopes to see how sticky jams are. Now we measure the torque taken to spin a Plate with jam on it.
What the neck kind of lab do you work at? And are they taking resumes?
I know just enough about rheology to be able to see why it matters, know that it factors into regulations about food manufacture & marketing, and understand Fardin (2014).
[M.A. Fardin, “On the rheology of cats”, _Rheology_Bulletin_, July 2014, which a web search will turn up a PDF of.]
Um, the spinning plate test … is it that less-sticky jams let the plate spin more easily because shear means you don’t have to accelerate all the thickness of the jam at once?
I never cease to be amazed by the things I learn in this forum! 🙂
So who won? Which was the stickiest?
Silly Sweetheart, you can respect the uniqueness of people without having to actually respect them.
Maybe they can call the guys who join the Biomass a bunch of biomassholes…
but how are they going to get past the reality blindness?
they’re aiming the message at the non-human community, which presumably are unaffected by a reality blindness drug aimed at humans.
So is it _more_ or _less_ sticky that indicates evil at work?
I imagine things in both extremes are the work of nefarious conspiracies.
I’ve always thought there was something evil about jam that slid too easily out of your PBJ when you tried to eat it!
Whereas I’ve always thought it evil when the jam is stickier than the peanut butter. Or worse yet, chunkier than the peanut butter.
One needs to pick the sweet (heh) spot on the jelly-jam-preserves spectrum.
Chunkier the better if you are Nailing Jelly to a Tree.
If it’s super runny (i.e. didn’t set), there’s probably not enough pectin in it.
If it’s mixed-fruit, it’s evil. You know it’s evil because the low-calorie version actually tastes better.
Speaking of blindness, how does Sweetheart know that the splotches are red? Or is being able to see colors part of her enhancements?
It’s subliminal. Her nose tells her that it’s strawberry jam, but she doesn’t want to know that, so the only piece of info getting through her willful blindness is that it’s red.
But since it’s niggling at her head that there’s Something about those blobs, she foolishly asks and can no longer ignore the truth.
I’ve never seen that expression taken so literally before.