These cookies are made out of real girl scouts
Andy Rooney thinks they are tasty.
I made a lot of cookies in my lifetime and we don’t have a drop of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in our kitchen. We don’t have any lecithin or niacin either. The Girl Scouts put what they call “reduced iron” in them. How would a girl reduce iron?
I looked up cookies in my Fannie Farmer cookbook and Fannie Farmer doesn’t use riboflavin.
Next time a Girl Scout tries to sell me cookies, I’m going to ask her about partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and about riboflavin.
sage said,
March 11, 2008
Girl Scouts are tasty. Cookies made of them are even tastier.
On ‘riboflavin’, the flavoprotein group always amused me. It’s adding ‘flavo[r]’. Who the heck came up with that name?
shimavak said,
March 12, 2008
On sage and riboflavin, it is actually a funny quirk of how it was discovered. It had a ribityl (I believe) side chain (hence ribo-) and the final compound was found to be very yellow in color. Thus, of course, the two groups who simultaneously isolated it both termed it riboflavin, as flavus is Latin for yellow. Pretty silly, really…
shimavak said,
March 12, 2008
I am accursed by a lack of comment preview!
sage said,
March 12, 2008
Fixed for your pleasure.
I have to say, “I has flavus” isn’t nearly as good as “I has flavor“.
And by the way, “I has yellow” returns pretty much nothing useful on google. That was highly disappointing, unlike other returns from a google search.
Lastly, I think your response here is just like when someone asks “why is the sky blue” and I’m able to answer correctly. No one really cares when you finally tell them…
sloth said,
March 12, 2008
“The sky is blue” is a really stupid statement in this part of the world anyway. It’s blue like what, 5% of the time?
Why is the sky dingy gray is a more accurate question I think.
Anyway, we all know that the the breakup of the housing areas into urban sprawl of Raleigh, NC is responsible for the color.
sage said,
March 12, 2008
I guess it depends on where you are. Some places the sky is blue a lot. Here… well, not so much.
Not really surprising, but you can directly ask Wikipedia why the sky is blue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_is_the_sky_blue and it will tell you. Children of the future, rejoice - when you have questions don’t ask your stupid parents who just make stuff up, read the intertubes.
narnianelf said,
March 12, 2008
Ugh. I do not approve this post. Or this thread. I do not come to abodes for learnings. I come to abodes for boobies and LOLs. The only science I want around here comes from those guvmint-funded scientifical studies that tell us stuff we already know, stuff like broccoli is good for you and everything gives you cancer.
sloth said,
March 12, 2008
Sage basically just reproduced my link about Rayleigh Scattering. Chump.
Oh, and if we assume that cancer is bad for you and that, as you say, broccoli is good for you, then everything can’t give you cancer since everything is a set containing broccoli.
Therefore, everything doesn’t cause cancer. It’s mostly things like coconuts and peeps that cause cancer.
narnianelf said,
March 13, 2008
Hey. Thanks for that link. I now know what kind of coconut bra I want for this year’s Buffett tailgating!