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Thread #39486   Message #561079
Posted By: catspaw49
28-Sep-01 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pancakes
Subject: RE: BS: Pancakes
Say .... Anybody know about the flour that was developed during WWII by George Kistiakowsky (who also perfected the implosive, shaped charge at Los Alamos which made the plutonium bomb work)? Brilliant and humorous character who was a chemist to the soul. He came up with a formula for an explosive that resembled flour and could be baked or cooked or used as you would any flour and you could eat the stuff too! No word on the taste, but it was smuggled into occupied countries as cakes, cookies, brownies, and of course just flour. Worked quite well, although I fear that lighting a fart might uh.......Anyway, it needed a detonator to work but it was used by the French underground a lot.

Spaw