Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!ucbvax!mayfield From: mayfield@ucbvax.ARPA (Jim Mayfield) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: refugee donuts Message-ID: <9446@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 16:28:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9446 Posted: Mon Jul 29 16:28:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:30:42 EDT References: <471@h-sc1.UUCP> <9432@ucbvax.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 19 In article <9432@ucbvax.ARPA>, allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) writes: > I can at least vouch for the often amazing longevity of donuts. I once had > a standard sugar-glazed one a girl gave me in H.S. in my locker, as a small > experiment in food preservation, for the whole year. Didn't get moldy at > all. Sure got hard though. In college, we kept a bowl of jello with ``whipped cream'' around for an entire school year. The jello hardened into a cloudy lump, but the topping remained completely unchanged, either in consistency or color, for the duration of the experiment. Makes you wonder what it does when you eat it. - Jim Mayfield "It's a floor wax." ... "It's a dessert topping." WAIT -- You're both right. It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!