[HN Gopher] Egg Boxing
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Egg Boxing
Author : sbolt
Score : 34 points
Date : 2022-09-16 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| prepend wrote:
| I do this with hot tamales and sugar babies. I think it's funny
| that others have this form of food competition as well.
| drewzero1 wrote:
| I used to do this with my animal crackers. The ones with horns,
| ears, or pointy noses have an obvious advantage, with the
| stronger crust concentrated in a smaller area.
| ortusdux wrote:
| Reminds me of the old Copypasta:
|
| _Whenever I get a package of plain M &Ms, I make it my duty to
| continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species.
| To this end, I hold M&M duels.
|
| Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply
| pressure, squeezing them together until one of them breaks and
| splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one
| immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
|
| I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are
| tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have
| hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in
| the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and
| snack-food world.
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| Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or
| pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves
| to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy
| extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to
| its environment.
|
| When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the
| strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this
| one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M
| Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 07840-1503
| U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for
| breeding purposes." This week they wrote back to thank me, and
| sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I
| consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a
| grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the
| True Champion._
| planetsprite wrote:
| The experiment ignores the fact that the heat and pressure
| applied to the winning M&M's weakens them for future battles.
| metadat wrote:
| It's just normal wear and tear.
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| nwiswell wrote:
| Playing with our food again.
|
| We're alone in an empty universe, aren't we?
| shoo wrote:
| the juxtaposition of nan boxing with egg boxing on the frontpage
| is enjoyably confusing. what is this, boxing day?
|
| what if you boxed two nans, in the sense of egg boxing? which nan
| would emerge the victor? the answer is likely nan.
|
| what if you boxed two eggs, in the sense of nan boxing? perhaps
| one egg would contain a chicken, and another egg some other type
| of oviparous beast.
| maksum wrote:
| My family would play a similar game at Easter. We paint hard-
| boiled eggs a day or two before, then on Easter, we each pick our
| "fighter" and attempt to break the other person's egg. Point to
| point is allowed, and you have several attempts with the
| different sides of the egg before the bout is over.
| lxe wrote:
| Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tapping - an Easter
| game. Thought it was an Eastern European thing but apparently
| it's a thing all over the world anywhere you paint eggs for
| Easter.
| lynguist wrote:
| I am perplexed. After this juxtaposition of the boxings, and
| now the juxtaposition of Easter and Eastern I realized for the
| first time perhaps the connection between East and Easter.
|
| Eastern European suddenly looks like Easter European.
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