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I know the name, but what's the reference? edit: ah wait, is it the thin slices?
Terry Pratchett.
that's the author, not the reference
A street snack that has baffled botanists
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Re: A street snack that has baffled botanists
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I don't know why you thought that personal attacks were merited here, but the fact remains that Subway removed azodicarbonamide from their bread years ago, as did many other fast food chains. https://www.eater.com/2016/8/8/12403338/subway-yoga-mat-chem...
That doesn't make a difference. You called azodicarbonamide harmless. Companies have a culture. Their history reflects that.
Just a pedantic observation. They never claimed any specific level of harmlessness. What they said was:
> I'm sure they replaced it with some other equally harmless dough conditioner
That could easily mean they replaced a toxic chemical with an equally toxic one.
That being said, the words used certainly imply the thought that the chemical is 'mostly harmless'.
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Indiana Jones wouldn't get tenure, yes he found the ark of the covenant, but what did he find afterwards (which was delivered to the gov/museum?)
Indiana Jones and the Street Snack of Bangalore. Kid getting ready to take bite of snack, then, "This belongs in a museum." Cue theme song.
Episode 5?
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I'm not sure that I get the point of your analogy. To be clear, I'm saying that genetic match supersedes any list of superficial attributes to determine identity. If it's established that X and Y are an 89% DNA match, even though X tastes and looks like Z, the fact that Y and Z belong in distant genetic branches should be enough to dismiss X as a possible Z.
Humans and chimps share 98% of their DNA, We also share like 84% with pigs. 89% doesn’t really seem like a case closed kind of stat.
You should look up DNA barcoding. We don't have an 84% barcode match with pigs.