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Pasta purists insist on plonking dry spaghetti into the boiling pot whole, but should you rebel against convention and try to break the strands in half, you'll probably end up with a mess of scattered pieces.
[...] It wasn't until 2006 that a pair of French physicists successfully explained the dynamics at work and solved the mystery. They found that, counterintuitively, a spaghetti strand produces a "kick back" traveling wave as it breaks. This wave temporarily increases the curvature in other sections, leading to many more breaks.
[...] This isn't just fun and games for the sake of idle curiosity (not that there's anything wrong with that). A collaboration between Audoly and Columbia University computer scientist Eitan Grinspun led to developing an Adobe paint brush that bends and moves, introduced in Adobe Illustrator 5 and Adobe Paint Brush 5. The MIT scientists say their new work could be used to better understand how cracks form and spread in similarly structured materials and brittle structures—bridge spans, for instance, or human bones. The secret could lie in the pasta.
Source: MIT scientists crack the case of breaking spaghetti in two
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 17 2018, @05:10AM (4 children)
They all had a hard time accepting that Americans really did regard them as "tacos".
Every last one of them said American tacos are really nasty.
I saw the vid on Facebook, perhaps it's also on YouTube so you can keep your precious self-righteousness intact.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 17 2018, @03:10PM (2 children)
Funny thing about nasty tacos. I have access to the "real thing", but every once in a long while, I feel like I want a Taco Bell taco. There's something about that paste - it has a flavor you don't find anywhere else. I mean, seriously, I don't even regard them as Mexican - barely even regard them as food. But a taste of that paste is good, maybe once a year.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday August 17 2018, @04:23PM
I impress upon my wife, that if she insists on eating meat. To actually eat meat. Not that Taco Bell "meat" product.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday August 18 2018, @08:55AM
- Menu.
To "Order Off The Menu" is to ask for a dish that the menu doesn't list. High-end restaurants are often heavily into that but TACO BELL?
She's a single mother of a disabled child so she's as poor as a churchmouse. Whenever I visit I take her to dinner. Sometimes she wants Taco Bell.
The last time she started ordering a whole bunch of different stuff, all of which could easily be prepared from the ingredients that Taco Bell actually uses, none of which was on the menu.
"Miss! We can't do that," the manager protested in desperation.
I held a twenty before his eyes. "Give this woman what she wants!"
Ann got what she wanted.
I loves me some Taco Bell, I mean I really do.
But I don't regard it as Mexican Food. Taco Bell is an ethnic cuisine all unto itself.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @11:37PM
You mean Taco Bell tacos? Everyone knows those are nasty. Hard shell tacos are just an easier to eat variation of tostadas, which every mexican probably knows about.