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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • …if you’re specifically talking about modern malic-acid flavors, that technology wasn’t developed until the mid-seventies in east asia and wasn’t imported stateside until the early nineties, but it was an immediate hit and quickly swept through the domestic sour-candy market, with most brands offering ‘extreme’ variants of their existing products…

    …i can’t recall any time when sour candy wasn’t a major product sector and a quick perusal of candy history essays shows it dating back nearly as long as manufactured candy has been a thing, with a history of sour preserved confections before that…









  • …my wife came home from a chemistry demonstration with a cooler full of dry ice: we thought it would be fun to fill the master bathtub with hot water, dump it all in at once, and watch what happened…

    …besides the obvious violent commotion, our entire house filled with a waist-high impetrable fog, enough that we panicked and quickly evacuated the cats lest they be overwhelmed by carbon dioxide…