Terrible foodBack when I was a student, we had a "clear out the fridge" party. Everyone brought what they had left and the idea was to make a big meal out of it.
The stew/casserole/whatever was going surprisingly well until someone added the tin of mackerel in tomato sauce they'd been hoarding all year.
What's the worst thing you've ever cooked or eaten? Who's the worst cook you've encountered?
[and yes, we've asked this before, but way, way back before we had the fancy QOTW pages]
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chthonic, Thu 17 May 2007, 10:23)
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Glowing gherkinsThe gherkin thing may indeed be due to sparks, but it is possible to make a laser out of tonic water. All you need is a resonant cavity (a tube with parallel mirrors at each end, one half silvered) and an excitation source, for example a flashlamp. The quinine in the tonic water will fluoresce and if you get your cavity right, will actually lase.
And if you're really careful, you can empty it into your gin and drink it afterwards!
Sorry. I'm getting way too scientific and off-topic this week.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 23 May 2007, 13:24,
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