Especially if the gum is placed by a teen girl that often “accidentally” shows her panties in front of a flummoxed immature dude. 

I thought xanthan gum was what happens when you sit a stick of Wrigley’s in front of a Piers Anthony novel.

Somehow, I was certain it was some sort of thickener made from seaweed.

There shall be lots of hydrocolloid things, because hydrocolloid is one of my favorite words to say out loud. It just has such a nice ring about it. 

I believe xanthan gum is also the reason why ketchup maintains its texture in the bottle but loses viscosity when you shake it (allowing it to be pourable). Shear thinning for the win!

And with the last bite of the best item being the best part of the best item, e.g. the tenderest, most perfectly done bite of the steak. This is to be followed by the last swig of the beverage at hand, the beverage having been carefully portioned out to coincide with the last bite. This is why I refuse to share the…

That is the antithesis of how I eat.

Can I get a star from my fellow syrup-on-egg people? 

. to replace it would cost millions as well, with Brexit on going the house of commons has been proven to be useless left to it own devices.

But isn’t that the epitome of power? You could do a thing if you wanted to but are CHOOSING not to?

This is not really responsive to my point. Royals can’t just “leave”; they can abdicate, but then the crown goes to the next in line. It’s not like the monarchy would end without a change in the laws that govern it. It’s super weird to blame the monarchy for continuing the monarchy when it is the voters and Parliame…

The Queen is 93 years old and has worked and continues to work most days of her life, mainly doing what other people tell her to. I doubt she thinks she has a “cushy job” that she is desperate to keep. I think she does what she does because she took an oath to do so (when she was only 25!) and feels responsible for…

Whatever you do, don’t marry someone that’s the opposite of you in this regard.. then you are fighting over the “saved” bits while they have wolfed down their best parts first.

This was one of the first key problems found with the marshmallow test - the children have to actually trust the adults running it for it to work as intended, and feel materially secure. Parents or guardians unreliable? Family in an economically precarious position and thus food insecure? Surprise, those kids aren’t…

I would have done very poorly on the marshmallow test had someone given it to me when I was a kid, mostly because when you learn as one of your first memories that you can’t trust people’s word (thanks Mom, and teachers, and uncles, and peers), you take the sure thing now because you don’t really believe you’re…

I didn’t say Tories don’t have the votes to pass a good bill. They absolutely could have. Hell, May’s bill came within a hair’s breath of passing, and it really sucked. I said they are paralyzed as a party by a minority rump.

It doesn’t take a village to drive a bus though, my man. It takes one chubby dude with a whack-ass haircut.

The people were conned into voting for Brexit, but be that as it may.... The problem with actually achieving Brexit is that there are no good ways to do so. The Irish border issue, in and of itself, is seemingly unsolvable — neither nation will allow the free flow of goods without a customs deal, but the UK opposes…

That’s not even the best part of the Black Rod tradition. At the opening of Parliament they come to fetch the House of Commons and, as part of tradition, get the door slammed in their face.

Technically she’s the “Lady Usher of the Black Rod.”