they laughed at Bozo the clown
Sep. 12th, 2006 12:01 amand then he discovered the squirting lapel flower!
They laughed at the Wright brothers, and then they invented the Wankel rotary engine!
Black pepper ice cream is churning as we speak. Next stop: quinine.
They laughed at the Wright brothers, and then they invented the Wankel rotary engine!
Black pepper ice cream is churning as we speak. Next stop: quinine.
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Date: 2006-09-12 11:12 am (UTC)Also, my first reaction to this post was "Quinine ice cream?". I guess that's one way to go about curing malaria. (Or, for that matter, lupus, if it's the 19th century.)
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Date: 2006-09-13 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-09-12 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 02:52 pm (UTC)Black peper, now -- definitely. If it's not ideal, try it with blueberry or chocolate! I'll eat the failures.
No, wait. I won't.
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Date: 2006-09-12 05:40 pm (UTC)I will eat your ice cream.
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Date: 2006-09-12 06:27 pm (UTC)Quinine (which comes from cinchona bark) is useful for treating things like malaria and influenza. Freshly ground black peppercorn is my favorite treatment for a runny/stuffy nose. Add garlic and/or cayenne and you'd have a really useful all-around virus treatment!
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Date: 2006-09-13 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-13 03:43 am (UTC)Next stop: quinine.
Just very, very worried about your brain.