[net.consumers] Setting fire to Non-Dairy Creamers

colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (02/20/86)

[The can contains some nondescript susbstance ...]

> The stuff is flammable, too!  A waitress once showed me a trick:  take
> a packet of creamer, light a match, and CAREFULLY sprinkle the creamer
> over the flame from a height of approximately one foot.  Instant flash.
> I almost burned off my hair.  You expect that I will eat this stuff!!???

You can ignite many powdered substances this way.  Some of the worst
fires in Buffalo were caused by explosions in flour mills.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
CS: colonel@buffalo-cs
BI: csdsicher@sunyabva