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Re: LEGO sighting on TV
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 03:48:51 GMT
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In article <G89Ew4.8s@lugnet.com>, "Rick Kujawa" <spacerocks@iname.com>
wrote:
> I was watching a show called Good Eats, I think, on the food channel
> yesterday. The show was all about beans and they where trying to show
> why they give you gas. They showed the food going through your small
> intestine as little clumps of LEGO blocks on a conveyor belt with a
> bunch of hands reaching out and grabbing the clumps. The bean clumps
> where bigger clumps of LEGOs that where too big for the hands to
> grab. Thus they went on to the large intestine undigested. Never saw
> food represented as piles of blocks before
Alton Brown (the guy who writes, hosts, and created Good Eats) is always
doing weird stuff like that. That's one of the things that makes him the
coolest cook on TV. In this case, the whole Lego thing was inspired by
the origin of the word "legume", which IIRC was a latin word that looks
and sounds like "lego" (though of course it has nothing etymologically
to do with the naming of our favorite building toy).
--
Mark D. McKean - The Quantum Panda - qpanda@quantumpanda.com
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