M&M’s THROWBACK!!!!!!!!1
I bought a baby pack of M&M’s today.
Why?
Because I was feeling nostalgic.
I used to have a very specific way of eating these packs of M&M’s for a good amount of my childhood/teenhood. This is how I would do it: I would dump the whole package out, sort the M&M’s by color, and then order each color’s candies by size from smallest to largest. I would then line up the ordered colors in the order yellow, orange, red, green, blue, brown. Finally, I would take the biggest candy from each color and order them from smallest to largest in a final row.
To eat them, I’d start with the smallest yellow M&M and just go up the lines.
I have no idea why I always used to do it this way, but I felt the urge to replicate this old ritual this afternoon.
So yeah. I know nobody cares, but it’s something I remember doing a lot when I was a kid/tween/teen.
Road Trip – Day 13: San Francisco (Giants/Braves Baseball)
Today Nate and I braved the streets of San Francisco to walk along the waterfront (with the secret motive to obtain candy) and then to get to the Giants/Braves game at AT&T Park.
The waterfront was a bit less terrifying than the non-tourist part of San Fran, at least. And we found IT’SUGAR, which is pretty much the best candy store ever (though it’s more expensive than our candy store in Calgary). We each got 2+ pounds of candy, ‘cause we’re addicts awesome.
The game was super cool, too. Baseball is so weird without the TV announcers! The Braves lost, which is too bad, but it was fun. Pictures!
Tomorrow we’re getting the hell out of San Francisco as fast as we possibly can.
This Week’s Science Blog is Sweet!
Well this is about the coolest study ever.
Windisch, Windisch, and Popescu (a trio of badass Austrian scientists) wrote a paper detailing the best way to enjoy spherical candies like M&Ms and Skittles.
The researchers placed whole and fractured candies into bowls of tap water (tap water has approximately the same pH as saliva) and mechanically agitated the water slightly to mimic movement in the mouth. They videotaped the candies from above to observe their dissolve rates.
As might be expected, they concluded that to maximize the life of the candy, consumers should try to maintain the candy’s spherical shape for as long as possible. Fracturing the shape increases the surface area, causing the pieces to dissolve faster.
But the best part is their conclusion: “Even though we now know how candies dissolve in time we stress that the best thing to do when eating a candy is to forget about these considerations, since they draw your attention away from what candies are made for: enjoyment.”
Read their paper and stats here.
Dear candy companies who feel the need to release peanut butter versions of their products:
KEEP IT UP.
Seriously. Peanut butter Twix cause little gustatory orgasms.
Anyway.
Am I the only one having trouble accessing the NaNoWriMo site? Every time I go to update my word count I get the “page cannot be displayed fart fart fart” message. So I think I’m still at like 420 words or something, haha. Prepare for my little graph to shoot skywards once I can actually log on.
Unrelated: I freaking love this!
Also, my stuff was “guaranteed” to come yesterday but it STILL ISN’T HERE…kinda freaking out, but whatev. I miss my books. And Giant Compy.
Vroom!
I’ve been waiting years for this
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the statistically perfect pack of M&Ms!
How is it statistically perfect, you ask? Well, if you take a look at Mars’ website, you can find the percentage of all M&Ms that each color represents. 30% of all M&Ms are brown, red and yellow both make up 20%, and orange, green and blue each make up 10%. Therefore, in a bag of 23 M&Ms, we would have seven brown, five red, five yellow, two orange, two green, and two blue. For a perfect example of this, see above photo.
My day has just been made.
(And yes, I know this boosts my dork level to even higher levels; I don’t care!)
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