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Custard is of course a cliche here. In order to remedy this
problem, i suggest that we attempt to find the opposite of
custard and for every idea which involves custard, post an
equal and opposite idea. Then the custard and anti-
custard ideas will mutually annihilate, releasing enormous
amounts
of creative energy for us all to harness in some
kind of gym.
Possible examples: ketchup, silly putty, non-drip paint,
molasses, toothpaste.
The substance should be blue, of course.
Then you come up with an idea like this:
Ketchup (or something else)-filled speed bumps: prevent
slow vehicles from progressing while allowing faster ones
past, thereby encouraging traffic to speed through
residential areas.
Anti-custard in use
http://i122.photobu...hly/anti-trifle.jpg
(in anti-trifle) [nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009]
Planets Halfbakery
http://i122.photobu...thly/custardier.png
Sunaru and Enutpen [nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009]
Catastrophe theory
http://en.wikipedia.../Catastrophe_theory
Not necessarily custard-based. [8th of 7, Nov 17 2009]
Chilli chocolate
http://www.montezum.../showitem.asp?i=824
The best [pocmloc, Nov 20 2009]
[link]
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Properties of custard: yellow, warm, sweet, viscous fluid, nutritious, popular. |
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Would Anti-Custard have exactly the same physical properties, or exactly the opposite ? |
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Anti-hydrogen and Anti-deuterium have exactly the same physical properties as their normal counterparts; same boiling point, atomic mass, etc. |
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So is this Antimatter Custard, or Anti-Custard, which would probably be a thin, cold, blue-coloured poisonous bitter-tasting gas ? |
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Interesting point. Maybe i'm looking for bizarro
custard rather than anti-custard, but the thing is,
that wouldn't release energy if it collided with
custard. |
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If it did collide with custard, would speed make a
difference? |
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And yes, i can totally see that Uranus is made of anti-
custard. Or Neptune. |
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why is blue opposite? custard of the cornstarch type is white. yes, yes, egg custard is yellow, but I thought we had cleared up this confusion years ago... so based on non-newtonian white, I go with burnt marshmallows. |
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edit: thanks 8th, I thought it looked wrong. too lazy to spell check sometimes. |
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Marshmallow the plant is an oddly underexploited
material, i've long thought. Yes, definite possibilities
there. |
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If this is the basic custard recipe:
Ingredients:
2 cups milk
2 eggs
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
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I would think you could make it like this:
1/2 cup water
1 chicken
8 TBLS. pepper
1/2 teaspoon lemon bitters
there you have it! |
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If eggs become chicken, wouldn't milk become beef? |
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The scary part is that [xandram]'s suggestion might actually be quite edible ...... |
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This does rather beg the question of what's on the dessert menu in the LHC staff restaurant .... |
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// This does rather beg the question of what's on the dessert menu in the LHC staff restaurant ...//
Something with baguette. |
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"Do you want Bosons with that...?" |
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[Bigsleep]'s version is probably the closest to my
original idea. [Xandram]'s sounds edible. I've always
thought of the edibility of HB custard to be akin to
the edibility of certain minerals - not really relevant
to their properties. |
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What's the opposite of vanilla? |
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//WE discovered a substance we called dratsuc, laast night. Will it do, for now?
— UnaBubba, Nov 16 2009//
Did nobody else spot that? [8th of 7] has finally broken loose. We're all dooooooooooooooooooomed. |
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I always thought mustard was the opposite of custard! |
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I think the LHC will probably produce it in the end,
but we could just sit around and wait for Boltzmann
dratsuc to materialise somewhere in a large wobbly
heap. But would it be wobbly? |
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so [bungston] is right about about the milk/beef thing! I think we need to collaborate on this...
be back later. |
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It suggests there could be alternating generations of
custard and non-custard. Non-custard is some kind
of meaty stew with some unusual herbal ingredients,
then it gives way to custard, which in turn
transitions into the stew. |
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Is it a linear transition, or a quantum state change ? |
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If you had an opaque bottle with a nipple/teat on
the end, it could contain uncollapsed custardoid
waves and you'd have to suck it and see. |
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Custard (proper custard, not school "pseudocustard") tends to be homogeneous, with a smooth surface, particularly once it has cooled and a skin has formed, suggesting that it has anentropic properties. |
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Stew has a rather more fractal quality... does this support the concept of onion gravy being "anti-custard" ? |
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It was invented, but failed in the marketplace in competition with the Cream Horn. |
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And the tuba made of bread |
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No, pasta ... haven't you heard of the "Cannelonium" ? |
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Sounds like some kind of Trumped up Jam |
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What will you play, "Strawberry Fields", or are you just planning a jam session ? |
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The whole thing sounds a bit drastuc. |
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Now i wonder what cistard would be, and how i'd spell it. |
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Isn't that more properly known as pustard ? |
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My eyes get all unglazed when I think of smooth
yellow custard sliding down my throat. |
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That's the precise reason i hate custard as a food
item (not as a fluid or whatever though). |
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Abscesses make the heart grow fonder... |
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You are so right, [UB]. Who'd've thought we have
that in common? |
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What would an Einsteinian fluid be? |
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[marked-for-deletion] "bad science"/ "theory"/ "we should research..."/ "magic" |
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/so [bungston] is right about about the milk/beef thing! I think we need to collaborate on this... be back later.'/ |
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Depends on which came first, the chicken or the egg. |
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Let's pour some into the LHC, and see if we can find the fabled Birds-Tickle particle/anti-particle rotating pair |
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Every time I think of custard, images of abscesses spring unbidden to my mind. I can't stand the stuff.
— UnaBubba, Nov 19 2009 |
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When did you last have abscess and does it spred well om toast? |
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Got me and improved upon. :) |
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I've decided that the opposite of milk is Chocolate Milk, therefore something like Chocolate chicken soup with lots of pepper should do it for me. |
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//What's the opposite of vanilla?//
If we use the definition of vanilla as "a flavouring substance...used in ice cream, chocolate and other foods." [thank you, Chambers Dictionary], then surely the opposite of vanilla would be "substance removed from ice cream etc to unflavour it". Sounds like vanilla to me! Ergo, everything is the opposite of itself. |
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//which came first, the chicken or the egg// I don't understand this question, it's obvious that there were egg-laying animals millions of years before chickens or any other kind of bird had evolved. |
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[Hippo], whereas i would hesitate to defend this
idea on the grounds that it isn't frivolous, i do
have a what passes for serious here intention in
posting it. |
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There are many good custard-themed ideas here
and some other ideas which use custard. On the
whole, they use custard to mean a shear-
thickening fluid which happens to be edible rather
than an edible fluid which happens to be shear-
thickening. There are also shear-thinning fluids,
for instance ketchup. My imagination is
sometimes paralysed by custard, and for all i know
"ketchup", i.e. something whose viscosity would
describe a complementary curve when plotted
against shear or strain to custard, has just as many
applications. Moreover, there are other non-
Newtonian fluids which behave differently again.
All i'm really doing here is expressing a wish to
think up applications for other types of non-
Newtonian fluid and regret that my ability to think
of them is impaired by the thought of custard
whenever i try. But then maybe the reason for
that is that escaping custard involves gentle but
persistent thought rather than brute-force
thought, so it's also mentally shear-thickening. |
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For that reason, i would resist the proposition
that this be deleted unless you suggest it more
gently. |
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// Chocolate chicken soup with lots of pepper // |
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Interestingly, there is a variation on the classic Mexican "Chilli con Carne" which uses Xocolatl - chocolate. |
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The Aztecs were fond of drinking a concoction of dark, bitter chocolate spiced with Chillis. Making a Chilli con carne using chicken and dark, bitter chocolate sounds remarkably enticing. |
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I haven't made that exactly, but i did make it with
tofu instead of chicken. It was interesting to try
once, not disgusting, but i wouldn't care to try it
again. |
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//Now i wonder what cistard would be//[nineteenthly] |
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The inverted isomer of transtard of course. |
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Does it have enantiomers too? |
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Nicht so viele wie Zweistein, wahrscheinlich. |
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What's the sound of one hand - no, what's the sound of a knocker - no, what's the sound of a door without - er ... |
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Got it: If a 'Baker responds to [UB], do they make sense? |
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