john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (08/16/85)
The other day my mother came across a half-eaten chocolate easter bunny. Rather than even considering eating it, she put it out on the driveway right under the bird feeder figuring that the squirrels or something would eat it. The last two days have been 90+ with this piece of chocolate siting on an asphalt driveway. Not only has nothing eaten it, it hasn't even shown any signs of melting! One wonders what they put in chocolate to keep it from melting. -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 222-6600 x366 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john Disclaimer: Monmouth College is a mecca for diverse opinions. It is, therefore, highly unlikely that the above opinions are those of anyone but me. Silly quote: Around here we don't have cuisine. We have EATS.
al@psivax.UUCP (Al Schwartz) (08/20/85)
In article <468@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes: >The other day my mother came across a half-eaten chocolate easter bunny. >Rather than even considering eating it, she put it out on the driveway >right under the bird feeder figuring that the squirrels or something would >eat it. > >The last two days have been 90+ with this piece of chocolate siting on an >asphalt driveway. Not only has nothing eaten it, it hasn't even shown any >signs of melting! > >One wonders what they put in chocolate to keep it from melting. > As the ad says: "It melts in your mouth but not in your driveway". -- Al Schwartz Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA {trwrb|allegra|burdvax|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|sdcsvax|aero|uscvax|ucla-cs| bmcg|sdccsu3|csun|orstcs|akgua|randvax}!sdcrdcf!psivax!al or {ttdica|quad1|scgvaxd|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!al ARPA: ttidca!psivax!al@rand-unix.arpa
vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (08/26/85)
> In article <468@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes: > >The other day my mother came across a half-eaten chocolate easter bunny. > >Rather than even considering eating it, she put it out on the driveway... > > > >The last two days have been 90+ with this piece of chocolate siting on an > >asphalt driveway. Not only has nothing eaten it, it hasn't even shown any > >signs of melting! > > > >One wonders what they put in chocolate to keep it from melting. > > Wax, usually, (see Sandra Boynton's scathing remarks on "Tropical Chocolate") but that doesn't account for this... -- Ephraim Vishniac [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, harvard, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!vishniac vishniac%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay
fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (08/28/85)
> From: vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) > Newsgroups: net.bizarre > Subject: Re: Re: More on food longevity > > > In article <468@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes: > > The other day my mother came across a half-eaten chocolate > > easter bunny. Rather than even considering eating it, she put it > > out on the driveway... > > > > The last two days have been 90+ with this piece of chocolate > > siting on an asphalt driveway. Not only has nothing eaten it, it > > hasn't even shown any signs of melting! > > > > One wonders what they put in chocolate to keep it from melting. > > Wax, usually, (see Sandra Boynton's scathing remarks on "Tropical > Chocolate") but that doesn't account for this... That was a REAL RABBIT! No wonder it didn't melt. Where did your mother come across it, and what had been eating it, slugs maybe? -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred