Published on May 2, 2007 By Texas Wahine In Blogging
Here's a little snack the boys and I made:









It didn't turn out as cool as it should have, but it was still a pretty neat snack. It's orange jello poured into a greased glove and set. Then you cut the glove away and use red jello or food coloring for blood. Well, orange and lemon jello mixed together might have yielded a more realistic color, and I'm not sure how I was supposed to get the jello out of the glove without destroying the hand. The blood didn't quite work out either. But it still made a pretty gnarly, mangled mess, which the boys seemed to appreciate.

Orian thought it was delicious, but Xavier said it tasted like glove. Haha.
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on May 02, 2007
Tex, my thought...I'd FREEZE the hand...then you could just split the glove and peel it off. Might make good snacks for a Halloween party!
on May 02, 2007
You bet your ass I am.


You know, I've never really understood what betting my ass means. If I lose the bet, what happens to my ass?

It's a lot more interesting than being completely sane, I'll tell ya


That, I know. (Try telling people you believe in dragons and see what they say)
on May 02, 2007
If I lose the bet, what happens to my ass?


I suppose it becomes forfeit and thus my property....so perhaps it's not the best idea to take such a bet...you could lose your ass.

~Zoo
on May 02, 2007
If you have a container with a small enough opening you can stretch a balloon over the vinegar/baking soda mix really fast and capture the CO2 that's produced. Depending on how much stuff you're using it could make it pop or fly off, fun either way.


back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, remco toys produced and sold a selection of modular 'science kits' packaged in cardboard cylindrical containers very similar in size to those commonly filled with quaker oats.

somehow i managed to acquire the one with which a kid could build a genuine working rocket. it consisted of the aforementioned rocket which--according to the instructions--was intended to be partially filled with vinegar (like up to the line) and a base/launch pad designed to accept a measured amount of baking soda.

there was also a rubber o-ring which hadda be installed for proper sealing. the base hadda lever-type trigger. according to procedure, after mating the rocket to the base, one was to shake the assembly once or twice and then place it in an open outdoor area, countdown from 10, press the trigger upon reaching 0 and then marvel as it blasted off into the 2-story-or-thereabouts-osphere.

as with all good things, the magic began to fade after a series of successful launches and that's when the real science began.

over the course of about an hour, we began increasing the amounts of fuel, countdown time and, having filled our notebooks with observed data, more fuel and longer countdowns combined.

as i sink further into the rapidly expanding morass that was once my memory, i'm no longer able to remember exactly how much more baking soda, vinegar and reaction time it took but i still vividly recall the historic moment when my associates and i invented the ied.
on May 02, 2007
but i still vividly recall the historic moment when my associates and i invented the ied


  

~Zoo
on May 02, 2007
kingbee: LOL. Maybe I should pour jello into some boots, too.

Gid: Great idea with the freezing. I think that's what I'll do next time.

kingbee: I agree with zoo. I can almost picture it.

on May 02, 2007
when they hadda throw their hands in.


*groan*

Tex--as always, I'm impressed!
on May 02, 2007
Shades: Thanks! I'd be more impressed if it even remotely resembled a hand! Haha.
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