Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/21/turns-out-vinyl-gloves-can-be-made-into-grape-soda.html
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I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. It always seemed like he was getting so close, then he’d have to try yet another reaction. It’s like looking at the peak of a mountain and thinking, “it’s so close! I’m five minutes from the top”
Chemists are their own kind of maker geek, that’s for sure.
I must be in the minority. I prefer diet soda’s flavor.
I feel less thirsty after drinking it, compared to normal soda (although I have been on diet so long I have not much tried cane sugar sodas).
Yes, many artificial sweeteners have a bitter aftertaste. I also like gin, and radishes and IPA’s.
Lately I do not even drink diet soda. I get my costco’s membership worth from the 36 can packs of La Croix knockoff.
I think the next step in my adventure to cut down on aluminum can waste is a large carbonation system, and growing my own fruit trees.
I have started to research what kind of fruit trees grow in my climate, but so many are so sugary I might actually see about one which is all rind and no flesh. Buddha’s Hand seems a suitable option.
I have been doing some reading about how to cultivate Buddha’s Hand so I do not have to pay Whole Foods prices, but the changing climate presents me with the occasional frost as a hurdle.
You might think all this extreme. But hey, you clicked on an article about making grape soda from vinyl gloves.
I’m getting strong Gale Boetticher vibes from that video.
Next put the Buddha’s Hand in the vinyl glove
Something about artificial grape flavor always tasted better than real grape to me, although I’m not sure it actually tasted like grapes at all.
Not a chemist, so perhaps unnecessary alarm is present (I know, I know… “the poison is in the dose”, “different bonds & structures yield different characteristics”, etc…), but seeing phthalate anything in the context of edibility seems like a pretty poor idea to my simple mind.
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