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Subject: BS: For the green jello fans out there From: Wolfhound person Date: 19 May 12 - 04:49 AM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-18116830 Paws |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: John MacKenzie Date: 19 May 12 - 05:08 AM Oh Danny boy, time for your sea sickness meds. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 19 May 12 - 05:57 AM Not sure if this will be just a visual experience, or will it wobble and give the visitors a feeling of being on the sea? As you say, John, sea-sickness tablets required! If there's a hot day, it will all melt and flow off the display in a smelly green puddle. Honestly, these artistic types get dafter and dafter! |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 May 12 - 08:13 AM Green jello or no green jello, I'm enthralled by the ingenuity of the glass "sea" surrounding the ship. For those as curious as myself, the ship is dry-docked, not afloat, but the hull was still corroding due to high humidity. The glass surface seals off the area below the waterline so that the relative humidity can be maintained at 22%. Presumably, the area above the waterline is still in good enough shape to not need the extra conservation measures. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,olddude Date: 19 May 12 - 08:18 AM OH the Humanity .... its the Devil ... Devil don't look, you will go blind |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: JohnInKansas Date: 19 May 12 - 08:40 AM "we're setting the ship afloat on a sea of lime green jelly," he said." Doesn't he mean "slime green jelly?" What color will it be after a couple of days in Bristol? (I haven't been there, and it's probably different than Philadelphia.) Very rough estimates of the area (based on approx height of specatators for scale) suggests an initial jelly layer of about 1 inch. In a very few days the jelly will be a sheet of sticky rubber, probably less than a half inch thick, almost completely insoluble in water and - in my experience - very difficult to scrape out of the pot. I rather doubt it will be particularly easy to sweep the inevitable trash off it if it's left more than a few days, but of course all the volunteers who mixed it are commited to help with the cleanup after the event - or aren't they? No matter. It's ART! John |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Joe Offer Date: 19 May 12 - 08:46 AM "Afloat on a sea of lime jelly" sounds poetic. Is there a song in that? A sandwich? Can we pretend it's mint jelly and serve it with lamb? But no, I almost feel a song coming on.... -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bobert Date: 19 May 12 - 08:46 AM I don't eat no pig and jello is pig... Pass... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,olddude Date: 19 May 12 - 10:41 AM Bobster is a gentleman and a scholar .. Unlike you Jell-o peddlers :-) the Horror of it all |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: JohnInKansas Date: 19 May 12 - 11:43 AM Recent reports claim that people who eat "red meat" (i.e. beef) daily die ten years sooner than those who eat "the other white meat." (At least that was the headline a few days back.) Looks like Bobert should switch to soy beans. He's old enough to tolerate the pseudoestrogen, and prob'ly can't be much further emasculated....! John |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 May 12 - 03:22 PM Those who think green Jello is the ultimate abomination have obviously never tried blue Jello. Green Jello at least attempts to taste like lime. What blue Jello is supposed to taste like is a mystery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: John MacKenzie Date: 19 May 12 - 03:33 PM What does a mystery taste like? |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: JohnInKansas Date: 19 May 12 - 07:10 PM John Mc SPAM? John |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Rapparee Date: 19 May 12 - 09:42 PM Obviously a mystery tastes like blue jello. Sheesh, I gotta do ALL the logic around here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 May 12 - 09:55 PM Come to think of it, I've tasted blue Popsicles, blue Sno-cones, and blue sports drinks as well as blue Jello, and they all taste similar. But I still have no idea what natural flavor any of them are attempting to mimic. It's certainly not blueberry. Maybe it's some mad chemist's idea of what something blue should taste like. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bobert Date: 19 May 12 - 10:01 PM Not to worry, John, ol' Bobert don't eat no 4 legged creatures... Haven't going back, ahhhhhh, a long time... Like mid-60s... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Rapparee Date: 19 May 12 - 10:01 PM I think Jello add-ins should be the same color as the Jello: green beans in green, blueberries in blue, cinnamon candies in red, banana skins in yellow and so on. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: frogprince Date: 19 May 12 - 11:37 PM Greeen Jello, Drives Dan 'round the bend, It's the last thing he wants to see... |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Geoff the Duck Date: 20 May 12 - 05:08 AM Bobert - the jelly is made from seaweed not gelatine from pigs, so your only objections should be on grounds of taste and decency. Should be a few possible song in here. I'm just a Lime Jelly Sailor A life on the Rolling Slime. Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 20 May 12 - 06:33 AM "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, Drink took some and the jelly took the rest, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: David C. Carter Date: 20 May 12 - 06:58 AM Big Dan lives in a Jello submarine Jello submarine,Jello susmarine Big Dan lives in a Jello sumarine His favorite's slime lime green. I'll get me coat |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: David C. Carter Date: 20 May 12 - 07:01 AM Ps.Anybody know what a "susmarine"is? Or a "sumarine" |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 20 May 12 - 08:19 AM David, it's because Big Dan evacuated his submarine for the latest underwater craft, the Susmarine. The Mark 2 version, the Sumarine, was developed later, and used a more advanced type of jelly. No need to get your coat just yet! |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bert Date: 20 May 12 - 08:26 AM ...I'm just a Lime Jelly Sailor... LOL Geoff |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: David C. Carter Date: 20 May 12 - 12:44 PM Thanks Eliza.I'll stick around then! Cheers |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bert Date: 20 May 12 - 01:22 PM Wonderful! two great British heroes Brunel and Captain Cook, rolled together in a project befitting The Mudcat Tavern. The giant squid will be delighted. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: olddude Date: 21 May 12 - 09:35 AM I am taking names here ... arrgh .... the humanity |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Becca72 Date: 21 May 12 - 10:38 AM I hear tell that the "blue" stuff is supposed to be Blue Raspberry...never seen a blue raspberry, myself.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 21 May 12 - 01:22 PM "Blue raspberry" is probably a flavor made up by chemists. They must have been trying for blueberry, but when that flavor proved too elusive, said, "Well, we're not gonna get blueberry, but this batch here tastes a bit like a cross between blueberry and raspberry. Let's just say it's 'Blue Raspberry' and call it quits. Sure, there's no such thing as a blue raspberry, but if there was, this is what it would taste like. Trust me." |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: ranger1 Date: 21 May 12 - 03:09 PM "What the hell is blue raspberry?" is a common topic in our abode. We don't eat or drink anything claiming to "blue raspberry", if I can't identify it, I don't eat it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: frogprince Date: 21 May 12 - 08:37 PM Maybe we should just be glad that they don't make brown jello. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: JohnInKansas Date: 21 May 12 - 09:04 PM "Blue Raspberry" as the name of something isn't really too far fetched. Most raspberries turn from green to red to purplish as they ripen, but my grandpa had a couple of bushes of a variety that almost completely skipped the red and went pretty much straight to a true blue, and the "squeezins" actually were "just plain blue." Since the flavor wasn't noticeably different than the red/purple ones, a "blue raspberry flavor" doesn't tell much though. The "blue" variety grandpa grew might have had a more distinctive flavor when grown in a better - or at least different - climate. Kansas has pretty fair soil, I guess; but the climate isn't necessarily all that wonderful for a lot of plant life that grows more easily "around the corner and down the road a way." John |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Bert Date: 21 May 12 - 10:11 PM We once bought some Blue Raspberry juice concentrate 'cos the grandbaby loves berries. All went well until she pooped blue poop. Not only that, it stained her poor little bum for days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: David C. Carter Date: 22 May 12 - 04:25 AM DAN...DAN....Take note of what Bert just said! And remember....NEVER trust a fart! |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Becca72 Date: 22 May 12 - 01:42 PM LOL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Geoff the Duck Date: 22 May 12 - 05:42 PM I think these three Wikipedia links answer the Blue Raspberry question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_raspberry_flavor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_leucodermis (Blue Raspberry - Fruit) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Blue_FCF (Colouring Used in Food) What they don't do is write the Lime Jelly Sailor song... Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Desert Dancer Date: 23 May 12 - 03:44 PM Geoff - if the package says "gelatin" or "gelatine", it's processed collagen, an animal product (refined "hide glue", basically!). Agar-agar (from seaweed) is a vegetarian alternative, but not as commonly used, and certainly not in "Jell-O". Gelatin, or more specifically, Gelatin dessert "Alternatives to gelatin include non-animal gel sources such as agar-agar (a seaweed), carrageenan, pectin, konjak, and guar gum." Agar-agar You may have a larger presence of non-gelatin jelly in the UK nowadays since the BSE (bovine spongiform encephalitis) crisis, however, according to this article from the BBC (from 2000), "Since March 1996, all British-derived gelatin has been banned. All ingredients for gelatin have been imported from abroad by law." Green is the scourge of the Jell-O line, as far as I'm concerned. Blue, is just wrong. The ship looks pretty in shiny green, though. You Brits can get pretty serious about your jellies, though... (Put your cursor on the images there and more will scroll by. Dan, put on your seatbelt.) Click on "Explosion Service", too... ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Desert Dancer Date: 24 May 12 - 11:28 AM seriously - check that last link of mine for more jello/jelly creativity. ~ B in T |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Hollowfox Date: 24 May 12 - 11:58 AM Long ago when I worked in a hospital lab, some med students made a batch of lime jello and inverted it on a plate. Then they wired it up as though for an eeg. When the jello jiggled, they got readings. THus they prooved that green jello is alive. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Geoff the Duck Date: 24 May 12 - 12:02 PM B in T - I fully understand the difference between animal and vegetable gelling agents - In an earlier posting I pointed out for Bobert's benefit that the boat in question was not surrounded by an animal product. The line from the news report read as follows :- Artist Harry Parr, from jellymongers Bompas and Parr, said the mixture used sodium alginate derived from seaweed, industrial dye and a lime flavouring. I notice that the link you put a couple of posts above this was to the firm responsible for the boat floating green jelly. Quack! GtD. Oh the Lime Jelly Sailor, He lives without fear. He pulls on his socks, then he drinks down his beer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Geoff the Duck Date: 24 May 12 - 04:43 PM When first we moored at Bristol Quay 1`q` We're a Lime Jelly ship with a Lime Jelly crew. She really goes "Squelch" When we pull her through. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Geoff the Duck Date: 24 May 12 - 05:51 PM Typing error above Verse should have read When first we moored at Bristol Quay Green lime, green slime. We got stuck in green jell-ee And we're bound to Bristol shore Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,olddude Date: 24 May 12 - 06:01 PM I hate you all ... the horror the horror :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Desert Dancer Date: 25 May 12 - 02:19 AM Thanks, Geoff, I didn't realize what you were referring to. Floating the boat in seaweed jelly makes perfect sense. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 25 May 12 - 06:05 AM Desert Dancer, what a scream having 'funeral jellies' and models of Buck Palace and St Paul's. The funniest thing was their promise to send a 'Jelly Technician' along to set up the displays. Now imagine you meet an interesting chap at a party, ask him what he does for a living and he replies, "I'm a Jelly Technician'. You'd edge away tactfully wouldn't you? |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: ChanteyLass Date: 25 May 12 - 03:29 PM Can you imagine seeing "jelly technician" in the Help Wanted ads? I wonder how much the job pays and how one qualifies for it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Desert Dancer Date: 26 May 12 - 03:01 AM Technician, heck, there's a management opening at Bompas & Parr: Work with Bompas & Parr About their "Explosion Service" that I mentioned earlier: Wedding cakes can be brutally stodgy. Blowing the cake up spares the stomach after a heavy meal and is a good way to wake guests up for the speeches. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 26 May 12 - 04:51 AM Now I'm getting excited, imagining meeting a guy at a party who says, "I'm a Wedding Cake Explosives Detonator!" I'd definitely want to know more! (What exposes it all as a spoof is the mention of the MoD and the word 'powerful' for the explosives. Very funny though!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Desert Dancer Date: 26 May 12 - 11:31 AM I believe it's entirely serious, Eliza! ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 26 May 12 - 01:09 PM Your link didn't load Becky, but I'm amazed if all this jelly business is true! I'd quite like an exploding Buckingham Palace for our Wedding Anniversary, and I'm sure after I'm gone, some funeral jellies would cheer up my grieving friends no end! |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Desert Dancer Date: 26 May 12 - 01:23 PM Sorry - I'm getting more broken links nowadays since Firefox is skipping the "http://" part of addresses in the url window. When I copy & paste, it's processed to automatically prefix it with "mudcat.org", which don't work. :-( Trying again... Link to Google search results on the explosives info, showing other news reports about the service and to relevant MoD regulations... clicky ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: For the green jello fans From: Desert Dancer Date: 26 May 12 - 01:30 PM There are lovely high speed photographs of their exploding jellies here. And a broader Google search here. ~ Becky in Tucson |
