chemistry trivia
Nov. 6th, 2004 07:27 pmApparently if you drink alcohol and consume food with vinegar, the two will combine with the hydrochloric acid in your stomach to produce ethyl acetate, better known as nail-polish remover.
Have some wine with that salad... I just had a beer with my garlic mashed potatoes (which are liberally dosed with vinegar).
(Not that it hurts you at all, but isn't it disturbing to contemplate the totally weird things that happen in your stomach?)
On a similar note, the following is just gross enough for me to put behind a cut, as it involves poop, but funny enough for me to bother blogging it in the first place.
One evening after a tasty dinner of hamburgers, Dave came out of the bathroom and stood in the door of my bedroom. "I just had a really gross thought in there," he said.
"Oh?" I asked, a little warily.
"I was pooing, and it suddenly occurred to me that animals were coming out of my butt."
Man, living with boys is gross.
"That may amuse you," Dave said, just now, when I told him I was writing this, "but I don't think the cow I just ate is going to be too pleased."
Have some wine with that salad... I just had a beer with my garlic mashed potatoes (which are liberally dosed with vinegar).
(Not that it hurts you at all, but isn't it disturbing to contemplate the totally weird things that happen in your stomach?)
On a similar note, the following is just gross enough for me to put behind a cut, as it involves poop, but funny enough for me to bother blogging it in the first place.
One evening after a tasty dinner of hamburgers, Dave came out of the bathroom and stood in the door of my bedroom. "I just had a really gross thought in there," he said.
"Oh?" I asked, a little warily.
"I was pooing, and it suddenly occurred to me that animals were coming out of my butt."
Man, living with boys is gross.
"That may amuse you," Dave said, just now, when I told him I was writing this, "but I don't think the cow I just ate is going to be too pleased."