tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 09 01:23:16 1996
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RE: yuch
What the fuck is wrong with you. Why would you think that I would be
interested in bullshit like this. Stop sending me your shit.
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Michiel Uitdehaag wrote:
> Greatly offtopic, but as a scientist I just can't keep my mouth
> shut (or my fingers from typing :]
>
> >>get refined sugar from. If there is a coco native to the Homeworld, it
> >>would be
> >>bitter like the Aztec beverages first imported to Europe from the New World.
> >It WOULD be? or it MIGHT be? Perhaps the native coco equivilant is
> >already sweet. For that matter, maybe something native to the soil makes
> >many of the edible plants sweet; like many of the veggies of Earth are
> >green.
>
> It's nothing in our soil that makes vegetables green.
> And nothing in soil would make plants sweet. Sweetness is a sugar and sugars
> represent fuel. So if the plant finds fuel in the ground, it will use it.
> If it decides to use it to attract animals, it will be sweet on non-sweet
> grounds too.
> Also, although we have artificial sweeteners, natural sweets would always
> be some sort of fats or sugars, because they're the only ones that contain
> energy for us (and klingons) to consume. By evolution, we would only like
> such energy providers, so only they will be sweet, so only those will be
> produced by plants, not the artificial ones (unless they have some other purpose).
>
> The coco is stuffed inside beans (or am I mistaking here?), where a high
> concentration of energy/weight is wanted. Sugars don't belong there, so
> coco beans will never be sweet by nature.
> Maybe the beans are surrounded by a fake-fruit like shell, that can be
> sweet. But when you make cocoa butter or candy, you'll extract the coco
> from the bean and have to add sugar to it. Maybe klingons don't experience
> coco as bitter, but terrans would probably experience klingon coco as
> bitter too.
>
> Sorry for this off-topic mail, and no, I can't say it in klingon :)
>
> jejQIb
>