Awkward Hand Turkey Theatre Presents: Splenda Is Discovered (1084 hits)
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Submitted by Spencer Thompson (View user info) at 2006-08-14 13:09:28 EDT
This is the first AHTT I've done in amonth, due to the facts that I've been on vacation in Michigan for part of that time, and for the rest of that time I didn't really feel like making one. I don't think anyone here was under ther impression I wasn't half-assing this.
Hey, anyone here remember my JALA article? I think I found out who JALA is. It's my seventh grade science teacher. But that's impossible, because my seventh grade Science teacher was awesome, but JALA is the single pure essence of evil in the universe. We imagine that what JALA must do is take the forms of unwitting people on the surface to play trivia, because if he were to show his true form, people wouild know he was balding.
All people legitimately interested in my trivia playing: http://players.buzztime.com/bt_profile.php?pid=39336
If anyone here has StumbleUpon ( http://www.stumbleupon.com ) make a point of it to please go to the AHTT site and give it th thumbs-up thing. Or, if you really hate AHTT, give it the thumbs down. I don't control you, you can do whatever you want (withing legal and moral means).
Have fun everybody.
Love,
Spencer
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:43:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You've finally gone back to half assing it again instead of writing. We've missed you.
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2006-08-15 16:11:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:44:47 (#)
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Wow, today I post a comic about Splenda featuring a diabetic, two hours afterwards I find out one of my closest friends has diabetes.
This is not a good thing, everybody.
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Tell him to skate it off.
Think diabetes is bad - try being a hypoglycemic.
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-08-15 15:45:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2006-08-15 06:31:31 (#)
Ranking: 2
sugar substitute used by diabetics because of the use of sugar alcohol instead of straight sugar.
they are able to digest it without insulin, thus they do not go into a coma.
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Not just diabetics use it, though. Some people use it just because it's supposed to be healthier in general.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2006-08-15 06:32:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sucralose was discovered in 1976 by scientists from Tate & Lyle, working with researchers at Queen Elizabeth College (now part of King's College London). It was discovered by Leslie Hough and a young Indian chemist, Shashikant Phadnis. The duo were trying to make an insecticide. On a late-summer day, Phadnis was told to test the powder. Phadnis thought that Leslie asked him to taste it; so he did. He found the compound to be ridiculously sweet (the final formula was 600 times sweeter than sugar). They worked with Tate & Lyle for a year before settling down on the final formula. They did not find any use of the compound as an insecticide. [Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, May 22, 2006, p 40]
It was first approved for use in Canada (where it has sometimes been marketed as Splendar) in 1991. Subsequent approvals came in Australia in 1993, in New Zealand in 1996, in the United States in 1998, and in the European Union in 2004. As of 2006, it has been approved in over 60 countries, including Brazil, China, India and Japan.
Front of yellow Splenda consumer packet.
Back of yellow Splenda consumer packet.Tate & Lyle manufactures sucralose at a plant in McIntosh, Alabama, with additional capacity under construction in Singapore. It is used in products such as candy, breakfast bars and soft drinks. Sucralose mixed with maltodextrin and dextrose (both made from corn) as a bulking agent is sold internationally by McNeil Nutritionals under the Splenda brand name. In the United States and Canada, this blend is increasingly found in restaurants in yellow packets, in contrast to the pink packets commonly used by saccharin sweeteners and the blue packets used by those containing aspartame.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2006-08-15 06:31:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
sugar substitute used by diabetics because of the use of sugar alcohol instead of straight sugar.
they are able to digest it without insulin, thus they do not go into a coma.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-08-15 06:26:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What is Splenda?
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-08-15 06:16:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
funny
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-08-15 04:05:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was really good. The cutaway was cool too.
Submitted by Creepy_guy (user info) at 2006-08-15 02:47:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"I'm trying to kill myself, but instead I'm eating candy"
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2006-08-14 19:28:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-08-14 17:43:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I was kind of amused, but just barely most of the way through. Then that last line got me.
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2006-08-14 17:13:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
YOU GOT SUGAR IN MY PESTICIDE!
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-08-14 17:03:38 EDT (#)
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What was that about not wanting to open another one of my posts ever again, ETS?
=)
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-08-14 16:44:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-08-14 16:42:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I logged in just to +2 this.
LIKE REESES PEANUT BUTTER CUPS..
EXCEPT MAYBE YOU DIE
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:53:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:44:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Wow, today I post a comic about Splenda featuring a diabetic, two hours afterwards I find out one of my closest friends has diabetes.
This is not a good thing, everybody.
Submitted by Feety (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:42:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i wanna play with the hand turkeys
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:36:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by OfficeZombie (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:36:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I tried doing a hand turkey show once, by my hands are abnormally thin and long.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:30:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:04:35 EDT (#)
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hahahhahahaha nice
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-08-14 14:03:39 EDT (#)
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"Exactly like Reese's Cups, except maybe you die".
VIVA LA AHTT
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:52:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
there were some GREAT lines in this
Submitted by Defect (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:43:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:38:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I forgot to include the URL, so JUST IN CASE ANYBODY FORGOT AND IS TOO LAZY TO CHECK ONE OF THE OLDER POSTS
http://handturkeytheatre.box43.net
Seriously, if you have StumbleUpon I'd appreciate you up-thumbing it.
Submitted by awesome_face (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:26:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
*throws another one in the best ever label.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:22:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was one of my favorites.
I wrote something about Splenda too.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/75820
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:15:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked the cutaway.
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:14:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yum
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-08-14 13:10:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
AUTO +2 FOR AHTT WOO!