In the Name of Science!

[gnomi]

As I was putting my challah dough together (it's Thursday night, which around here sometimes means the baking of challah), I noticed this flashy new declaration on the sugar bag:

Oh, Sugar!

C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ without the carbon? Neat trick!

Comments

[bluepapercup]

*rolls her eyes so hard they fall out of her head and go bouncing across the floor*

[madfilkentist]

Domino, if I'm reading the partial label at the top correctly. They've been doing that for the past year.

H22O11 would be ... polymerized water.

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, if Cambridge, MA can declare itself "Nuclear Free!" when they have at the very least 2 (research) nuclear reactors, one in Harvard and one in MIT, everything is possible... :-P

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

Harvard and MIT are considered separate, sovereign territory. Kinda like Vatican City for nerds.

[madfilkentist]

That's disturbingly close to true.

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

But then . . . why is it in the organic section? :)

I remember the night the carbon chains met the hydrogens and the oxygens and they all hooked up. It was so organic. They really had great chemistry.

[fauxklore]

This amused me.

But why are you putting sugar in challah instead of honey?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

But why are you putting sugar in challah instead of honey?

Uh...because that's what my mother's recipe, which I've been successfully making for 25+ years, calls for.