inc@fluke.UUCP (Ensign Benson, Time Cadet) (08/01/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** >> I can at least vouch for the often amazing longevity of donuts. I once had >> a standard sugar-glazed one a girl gave me in H.S. in my locker, as a small >> experiment in food preservation, for the whole year. Didn't get moldy at >> all. Sure got hard though. > In college, we kept a bowl of jello with ``whipped cream'' around for an > entire school year. The jello hardened into a cloudy lump, but the topping > remained completely unchanged, either in consistency or color, for the > duration of the experiment. Makes you wonder what it does when you eat it. A guy I used to work with bought a sandwich from a cafeteria line -- it came on a plate covered with Saran Wrap. When I first saw it, it was already 5 years old, and was a continually changing micro-panorama of color. Ther was absolutely no way of telling that the thing had once been a sandwich. In all that time, the molds had never settled into entropy, but must have been waging intense war for supremacy. He called it his pet, and when I left there it was 8 years old and still going strong. -- Ensign Benson -Time Cadet- _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-The Digital Circus, Sector R-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_