[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

The remaining blended rat becomes cat-sup?

On 10/24/2010 11:43 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> I can't believe that someone would want a weedeater powered blender.
> I gather from the company promo that beach-party animals love it.
>
>> Haven't they heard about single malt scotch?
> Ah, well, *I* have.
>
>> You don't even use that much ice
> None, usually.
>
> My intro to blenders was when I was working for the Dairy Science
> department at the Stockbridge Ag School.  They would feed lab rats on
> some test diet for a few weeks.  Then they'd like to see just how much
> protein, minerals, fats, whatever the rats had incorporated into their
> bodies. How to do that?
>
> Take a bit of muscle here, a drop of blood there, some liver, a tad of
> brain and a sliver of bone?  No.  You put the whole rat [1] into a
> waring blender for a minute or two.  Then you just take a few ml of
> the resulting bree and are guaranteed an average.
>
> I have yet to see any currently sold consumer blender (including
> Waring, that they used in the lab) that would do whole rat.
>
> No back to our usual topic...
>
> - Mike
>
> [1] Whole rat: Whole skinned rat, that is.  They tried whole rat but
>      even their powerful Waring blender would snag and stall on the
>      hide.  You had to ask... :-)
>