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- From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
- Subject: X-Industries product sighting
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.024048.29383@netcom.com>
- Summary: Rim Dweller On the Road
- Organization: t.b, t.p.d, & a.d
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:40:48 GMT
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- Prologue:
- I visited friends in SF last night, in the neighborhood north of Golden
- Gate Park where my brother used to live. (What's that section called,
- anyway? Nemmine.) They showed me their souvenir of San Diego.
-
- Hot-Lix -- tequila-flavored lollipop, with worm.
-
- "Hot-Lix [tm]
- "Ingredients: Hydrogenated vegetable starch hydrolysate,
- Insect larva, natural and artificial flavors and colors."
-
- Some points to consider:
- 1) I particularly like the correct use of the singular "larva";
- 2) I have never heard of "hydrogenated starch hydrolysate" before,
- despite my being an inveterate reader of ingredients lists;
- 3) I did not taste it -- it remains neatly wrapped;
- 4) We jointly came up with the slogan "How many licks does it
- take to get to the insect larva center of a Hot-Lix pop?
- The World May Never Know" [tm You Know Who];
- 5) The lollipop was well-nigh perfectly transparent, so those
- natural and artificial colors must have fallen outside the
- unaugmented human visual range.
- (I'm guessing on this, as I don't use augments or cybernetic visual
- implants myself; they seem sort of puerile and passe' these days.)
-
- -- Clifton
-
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