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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: X-Industries product sighting
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:25:12 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211171425.26@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov17.024048.29383@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.024048.29383@netcom.com> cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
- >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.)
-
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- My sister sent me a box of these from LA.
-
- No, I didn't try one.
-
- They came with a package of salt and a lemon-lime candy slice.
-
- The ingredients also refer to the insect larva as Tenebrio Molitar.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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