A friend worked at a lab and asked if we would take a transgenic mouse for a pet. "Sure". The little guy was pretty special, to say the least. I believe that he came from Switzerland and they paid like $2000 for him.
Mice don't have a long life span so when our friend finally passed, um, the lab friend who had an extremely interesting past decided our mouse needed a special procedure.
I have the little guy perfectly mummified with all that it means *as much as can be done on a tiny mouse.
@katylava, @Pavlov, @JonT, @Headly, @kidsandliz: Ok kiddies, here's this on that... There were 1,760 slices of Kraft Singles in my fridge at that moment (that's 110 12oz packages). And yes, @JonT, it's really real. Sorry 'bout that. LOL! I'm not a crazy coupon people, @Headly, I was challenged to see how many I could actually stockpile before the store turned me away. A sale price happened to coincide with a manufacturer's coupon that printed out at checkout, which also happened to combine with the store's "double coupon days" promotion. Purchased in 11 separate transactions, it cost me $0.07 in sales tax per 10 packages, for a total of $0.77 for 110 packages. After I realized they were going to do this as many times as I wanted... and also realized I was out of room to store cheese... I called it done. This experience has enlightened me to many things including... despite my initial assertion, there IS a limit to how many grilled cheese sandwiches I can eat in one sitting. Also, Kraft Singles actually freeze quite well. The texture is a bit off after thawing unless you melt them, so they work great in grilled cheese sammies, cheeseburgers, etc. I also discovered that everyone I know wants free cheese... for a week or so. After that... no dice. So I've frozen as many as I can reasonably use, kept a few fresh packages ("best by" date is about four months) and the remainder I'll be donating to a food bank.
@Pavlov Holy Crap - not cheese and doesn't mold? Yuck. I would have guessed, prior to reading that article, that it was plastic mixed with milk whey from China perhaps. Kraft has a big presence in China with oreo cookies (except those are wafers and not oreos as we know that sugar hit)
@ruouttaurmind We used to regularly freeze that crap. It's been forever since I've even eaten any. I don't miss it, though it's not bad as far as non-food ingestibles go.
@Moose Depending on what you want for it (if you'd part with it) I'd make an offer to have it in my small and unique prop house I have going on the side. I'd need more info (metal, wood backed, etc.) but it is a unique find.
Nothing a little penicillin can't help...
I've got a dead guy hanging a picture in MY kitchen.
And knowing is half the battle!
@Zelucifer
I have a dead guy in my kitchen too!
@JonT I hope that's not going in a fuku.
@JonT Cook 'em up with some nice taters. You know, po-ta-toes? I see you have a bag ready to go!
I discovered that my Chinese zodiac animal and element is a fire goat. Not that that means anything.
@Headly do you ever find yourself craving that mineral?
@EasyElric sometimes I crave goat cheese...
I think I might have posted about this before...but here is one of my prized possessions from my time working at Blizzard:
Those Mala Beads on top were given to me by an ordained Shaolin monk while I was working on a martial arts MMO for another game company.
@JonT Is this all you submitted for your resume when you applied at Meh?
@JonT You didn't get a retired WoW balde server?
@The_Baron Hah, no I didn't but I'm still a little sad that I was laid off before I got my 5 year sword.
A friend worked at a lab and asked if we would take a transgenic mouse for a pet. "Sure".
The little guy was pretty special, to say the least. I believe that he came from Switzerland and they paid like $2000 for him.
Mice don't have a long life span so when our friend finally passed, um, the lab friend who had an extremely interesting past decided our mouse needed a special procedure.
I have the little guy perfectly mummified with all that it means *as much as can be done on a tiny mouse.
@Headly 97 years to go.
@joelmw Cryogenics FTW!
Chemicals and lab equipment.
Calm down, calm down. My husband is a chemist and he was making shampoo.
@katylava Hey, my Dad was a chemist. He ended up working on the moon project, had little to do with chemistry, apart from the fuel tests.
@katylava blue meth would have been way cooler...
I've got change in my pocket going jing-a-ling-a-liiiiiing
no really; i do.
WAY too many packages of pasteurized processed cheese food...
Any guesses how many?
@ruouttaurmind 96?
@katylava 84?
@ruouttaurmind no...this...this isn't real, right? PLEASE DON'T BE REAL!
@ruouttaurmind sorry - replied to the wrong person - 84? (assuming the meat drawer is not as deep as the drawer above it)
@ruouttaurmind Are you one of those crazy coupon people they makes TV shows about?
@ruouttaurmind Actually, I'm going to revise my estimate to 68.
Is there a prize?
@Pavlov Yeah probably you will get the ones that are moldy
@Kidsandliz @ruouttaurmind I've actually never seen Kraft singles mold, come to think of it. In fact, I didn't realize that it wasn't considered a cheese by the FDA. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028736/krafts-new-campaign-wants-you-to-believe-that-kraft-singles-come-from-farms
@katylava, @Pavlov, @JonT, @Headly, @kidsandliz: Ok kiddies, here's this on that... There were 1,760 slices of Kraft Singles in my fridge at that moment (that's 110 12oz packages). And yes, @JonT, it's really real. Sorry 'bout that. LOL! I'm not a crazy coupon people, @Headly, I was challenged to see how many I could actually stockpile before the store turned me away. A sale price happened to coincide with a manufacturer's coupon that printed out at checkout, which also happened to combine with the store's "double coupon days" promotion. Purchased in 11 separate transactions, it cost me $0.07 in sales tax per 10 packages, for a total of $0.77 for 110 packages. After I realized they were going to do this as many times as I wanted... and also realized I was out of room to store cheese... I called it done. This experience has enlightened me to many things including... despite my initial assertion, there IS a limit to how many grilled cheese sandwiches I can eat in one sitting. Also, Kraft Singles actually freeze quite well. The texture is a bit off after thawing unless you melt them, so they work great in grilled cheese sammies, cheeseburgers, etc. I also discovered that everyone I know wants free cheese... for a week or so. After that... no dice. So I've frozen as many as I can reasonably use, kept a few fresh packages ("best by" date is about four months) and the remainder I'll be donating to a food bank.
@ruouttaurmind Wow. (and it takes a lot to impress me)
@Pavlov Holy Crap - not cheese and doesn't mold? Yuck. I would have guessed, prior to reading that article, that it was plastic mixed with milk whey from China perhaps. Kraft has a big presence in China with oreo cookies (except those are wafers and not oreos as we know that sugar hit)
@ruouttaurmind As a crazy always-looking-for-a-bargin shopaholic, I am humbled.
@ruouttaurmind Maybe Meh could offer Kraft Singles on a twofer tuesday...
@ruouttaurmind your username is a very fitting question to all of this.
@JonT
@ruouttaurmind We used to regularly freeze that crap. It's been forever since I've even eaten any. I don't miss it, though it's not bad as far as non-food ingestibles go.
@ruouttaurmind In the past when it was first introduced it was called Formaldehyde cheese. I eat it but its kind of gross if you think of it.
@ruouttaurmind
Found this in some of my dad's old stuff. Not sure where it came from, seeing as my dad was six in 1951, but I like it.
@Moose Email me please if you ever decide to part with it.
@Pavlov Any particular reason?
@Moose Depending on what you want for it (if you'd part with it) I'd make an offer to have it in my small and unique prop house I have going on the side. I'd need more info (metal, wood backed, etc.) but it is a unique find.