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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on February 18, 2010, 09:46:42 PM

Title: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 18, 2010, 09:46:42 PM
Can anyone explain how things such as pasta and red kidney beans can stay firm after sitting in a tin of soup for months or even years?
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on February 18, 2010, 09:52:47 PM
Sheer grit and determination, Diane. I sat in a bath of soup for several hours once, and I stayed... okay, you don't want to know this.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Tom on February 18, 2010, 10:29:35 PM
Ah, you see, that's the common misconception. People tend to think that the soup is liquid inside the tin. It isn't. Only once the tin is opened, it turns to a form of liquid.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 18, 2010, 10:33:19 PM
The vacuum created within the can, combined with the starch of pasta and the fibrous protein of kidney beans, means that...no, I haven't got a clue.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 18, 2010, 10:36:46 PM
It's the firmisity-factor that accelerates the firmation of food forms prior to can-containment; normally created in a sterile "sans-contamination" environment, every other Wednesday, by Audrey.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Bilthehut on February 18, 2010, 10:49:57 PM
If you believe they are firm, they will be.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 18, 2010, 11:04:24 PM
If you believe they are firm, they will be.

I had a girlfriend like that.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Bilthehut on February 18, 2010, 11:06:28 PM
Was she Audrey?
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 19, 2010, 02:17:26 AM
It is a wonder isn't it.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Vulture on February 19, 2010, 02:18:56 AM
Was she Audrey?

Only on a Wednesday.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Mince on February 19, 2010, 10:03:44 AM
Can anyone explain how things such as pasta and red kidney beans can stay firm after sitting in a tin of soup for months or even years?

They only lose their firmness when they are pasta their sell-by date and then they become has-beans.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Vulture on February 19, 2010, 10:50:20 AM
Can anyone explain how things such as pasta and red kidney beans can stay firm after sitting in a tin of soup for months or even years?

They only lose their firmness when they are pasta their sell-by date and then they become has-beans.

This boy is spending far too much time with his students!
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Bilthehut on February 19, 2010, 12:16:13 PM
You can get done for that.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 19, 2010, 12:42:14 PM
Can anyone explain how things such as pasta and red kidney beans can stay firm after sitting in a tin of soup for months or even years?

They only lose their firmness when they are pasta their sell-by date and then they become has-beans.

 ;D
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Tom on February 19, 2010, 07:43:22 PM
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 19, 2010, 07:47:03 PM
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Jack on February 19, 2010, 08:09:04 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Vulture on February 19, 2010, 08:46:40 PM
Just stop it! You're going to be all smilied out!!
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Jack on February 19, 2010, 10:14:23 PM
 :(
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 20, 2010, 01:07:40 AM
 :( :(
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Colin on February 20, 2010, 01:09:33 AM
 8)
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: peter on February 21, 2010, 05:49:41 PM
i want to know why glue does not stick to the inside of the bottle befor you use it
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: peter on February 21, 2010, 05:52:11 PM
and how do people know whether they are standing up or down this sounds odd till you think about it
if we in england are standing upright the people in aus will be upside down
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Vulture on February 21, 2010, 06:34:38 PM
and how do people know whether they are standing up or down this sounds odd till you think about it
if we in england are standing upright the people in aus will be upside down


I know that turning off unnecessary electrical equipment saves energy; what does making three sentences into one sentence save?
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Calvin on February 21, 2010, 07:14:11 PM
Two full stops?
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Tom on February 21, 2010, 07:23:56 PM
 ;D

Glue uses the same principle as tinned soup, in that once in contact with the air it becomes sticky, whereas soup becomes liquidy. It's called something like fundamental trans-mutational metamorphosis.

Walking upright is something historians have been pondering for years, but somehow people do it the same way wherever they are from.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Vulture on February 21, 2010, 09:24:29 PM
Two full stops?


.... and several capital letters...!
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Bilthehut on February 21, 2010, 10:38:33 PM
and how do people know whether they are standing up or down this sounds odd till you think about it
if we in england are standing upright the people in aus will be upside down

The people in Austria are yodelling on the mountains.  The people in Oz; well, that's another story.
Title: Re: The mystery of tinned soup.
Post by: Jack on February 22, 2010, 12:40:04 PM
and how do people know whether they are standing up or down this sounds odd till you think about it
if we in england are standing upright the people in aus will be upside down

The people in Austria are yodelling on the mountains.  The people in Oz; well, that's another story.

I understand they're marching around singing about lollipop guilds.