Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
On 3/27/2026 7:10 PM, john larkin wrote:
Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer by Nevil Shute
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
John, as an engineering entrepreneur yourself, this should be a good read for you.
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:56:46 -0700, Buzz McCool
<buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 3/27/2026 7:10 PM, john larkin wrote:
Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer by Nevil Shute
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
John, as an engineering entrepreneur yourself, this should be a good read for you.
OK, I'll get it.
I read really fast so burn up books. Then I have to get rid of most of
them.
We have Little Libraries around here, tiny boxes for book exchange. I
drop books into them as I walk to work.
I'm reading
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element Paperback ?
May 15, 2009
by Jeremy Bernstein (Author)
pretty cool.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I read really fast so burn up books. Then I have to get rid of most of
them.
...I'll put this on my reading list too.
I'm reading
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element Paperback ?
May 15, 2009
by Jeremy Bernstein (Author)
On 3/30/2026 9:08 AM, john larkin wrote:
I read really fast so burn up books. Then I have to get rid of most of
them.
My city has a public library that rarely doesn't have a book I want.
If they don't have it, they usually can request it for me from a local >university.
...
I'm readingI'll put this on my reading list too.
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element Paperback ?
May 15, 2009
by Jeremy Bernstein (Author)
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone ><cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused
the molasses to expand. There were other causes: ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The wiki article, with references, says they heated the molasses. How you can make a statement with such certitude about something that happened 107 years ago and about which you know so little, is beyond rational explanation.
Correction: it was the Scientific American article linked in the Wiki article.
And unseasonable warm typically refers to a brief daytime high of a few hours. The gazillion gallons in the tank represents the state corresponding to the long term average, which was probably very cold. Molasses has a specific gravity of about 1.5 ( I think), meaning it's going to take a while to thaw out.
On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:45:01 +0000, someone <cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
The wiki article, with references, says they heated the molasses. How you can make a statement with such certitude about something that happened 107 years ago and about which you know so little, is beyond rational explanation.
That's not how I read it. I read:
"... and the previous day, a ship had delivered a fresh load of
molasses, which had been warmed to decrease its viscosity for
transfer".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
Could I trouble to provide the location of where the Wikipedia article
said that they had "heated the molasses"?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:45:02 +0000, someone ><cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Correction: it was the Scientific American article linked in the Wiki article.
This one, I presume: ><https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/>
Again, I don't see anything that resembles "they heated the molasses".
A quote from the article would be helpful.
And unseasonable warm typically refers to a brief daytime high of a few hours. The gazillion gallons in the tank represents the state corresponding to the long term average, which was probably very cold. Molasses has a specific gravity of about 1.5 ( I think), meaning it's going to take a while to thaw out.
There's quite a bit of speculation in the above paragraph.
It's not a gazillion. It was a total of 2.3 million U.S. gallons
(8,700 cubic meters).
Change in viscosity with temperature. I have no clue which type of
molasses was involved:
<https://www.cpesystems.com/pages/specific-gravity-and-viscosity-table-for-various-craft-products>
Product Spec Grav Viscosity
A. First 1.4 - 1.46 1300 - 23,500 SSU @ 100?F
700 - 8160 SSU @ 130?F
B. Second 1.43 - 1.48 6535 - 61,180 SSU @ 100?F
3058 - 15294 SSU @ 130?F
C. Blackstrap 1.46 - 1.49 12,190 - 255M @ 100?F
I read a little more and concluded that the tank was badly designed,
badly built, badly maintained, and in poor condition. In my never
humble opinion, adding a load of warm molasses to the tank was
probably fly that broke the camel's back. The rood cause was the tank
was rusted and was probably falling apart. The tank and molasses >temperatures were probably incidental.
"Internal Cause was Explosion, Says State Chemist
It became known last night that W. L. Wedger, State police chemist in charge >of explosives, had reached the positive conclusions that the disaster
instead of being due to a collapse of the great tank was caused by an >internal explosion.
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:45:01 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
The wiki article, with references, says they heated the molasses. How you can make a statement with such certitude about something that happened 107 years ago and about which you know so little, is beyond rational explanation.
That's not how I read it. I read:
"... and the previous day, a ship had delivered a fresh load of
molasses, which had been warmed to decrease its viscosity for
transfer".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
Could I trouble to provide the location of where the Wikipedia article
said that they had "heated the molasses"?
Hmm, do you think there is essential difference between "had been warmed" >(present in the text you cite) and "heated"?
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank."They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/ >>
the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 øF (-17 to 5.0 øC)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And
located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank."They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/ >>>
the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And
located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in
Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to
my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker
terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import
facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served
by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused >>>> the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And
located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >>molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in
Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to
my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served
by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or
Bananas Foster.
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> >>>> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused >>>>> the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And
located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >>>molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>>my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>>by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse. >>
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> >>>>> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite
unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused >>>>>> the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 øF (-17 to 5.0 øC)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East
Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >>>> molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in
Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>> industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end
residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian
restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>>> my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker
terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import
facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>>> by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or
Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people
don't like rum.
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> >>>>> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused >>>>>> the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >>>>molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>>>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>>industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>>>my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>>>by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse. >>>
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>>Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people
don't like rum.
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> >>>>>> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused >>>>>>> the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today>
"Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm
temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>>>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >>>>>molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>>>>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>>>industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>>>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>>>>my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>>>>by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>>>Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people
don't like rum.
I do like rum.
I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used
to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay.
I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)
So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and
eaten slowly.
Very Good
Joe
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:19 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> >>>>>>> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused >>>>>>>> the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today> >>>>>>>> "Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm >>>>>>>> temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>>>>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and >>>>>>molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>>>>>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>>>>industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>>>>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>>>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>>>>>my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>>>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>>>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>>>>>by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>>>>Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people
don't like rum.
I do like rum.
I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used
to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay.
I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)
So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and >>eaten slowly.
Very Good
Joe
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Find a Bananas Foster recipe. It's a classic dinner dessert or brunch
treat in New Orleans.
Cooked bananas have a different flavor. The hot
banana-cream-cinnamon-rum sauce is the best part.
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:12 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:19 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> >>>>>>>> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused
the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today> >>>>>>>>> "Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm >>>>>>>>> temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>>>>> Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and
molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in
Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>>>>> industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end
residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>>>> restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>>>>>> my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>>>> terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>>>> facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>>>>>> by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>>>>> Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people
don't like rum.
I do like rum.
I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used
to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay.
I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)
So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and
eaten slowly.
Very Good
Joe
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Find a Bananas Foster recipe. It's a classic dinner dessert or brunch
treat in New Orleans.
I did look at that, and it seemed over the top for SWMBO, but I'll
tempt her. Maybe for a party.
Cooked bananas have a different flavor. The hot
banana-cream-cinnamon-rum sauce is the best part.
Yes.
Joe
On 04/10/2026 03:52 PM, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:12 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:19 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>>> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>>
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to
expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow >>>>>>>>>>> faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot
which caused
the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes> >>>>>>>>>> "...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today> >>>>>>>>>> "Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm >>>>>>>>>> temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for
design. And
located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and >>>>>>>> East
Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw
goods (and
molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in
Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were >>>>>>>> major
industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>>>>>> residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>>>>> restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food,
compared to
my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>>>>> terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>>>>> facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still >>>>>>>> served
by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics >>>>>>>> warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice
cream. Or
Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people
don't like rum.
I do like rum.
I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used
to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay. >>>> I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)
So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and >>>> eaten slowly.
Very Good
Joe
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Find a Bananas Foster recipe. It's a classic dinner dessert or brunch
treat in New Orleans.
I did look at that, and it seemed over the top for SWMBO, but I'll
tempt her. Maybe for a party.
Cooked bananas have a different flavor. The hot
banana-cream-cinnamon-rum sauce is the best part.
Yes.
Joe
Cherries Jubilee, then for something like "Pears Cointreau".
Pie filling and ice cream, ....
Nilla wafer nana pudding?
Never tried Jaeger on ice cream, or, Sambuca or Cumbia, ...,
they're good cold, though.
Rum like anything else is for avoiding adulterants.
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:12 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:19 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>>wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> >>>>>>>> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused
the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes>
"...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today> >>>>>>>>> "Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm >>>>>>>>> temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>>>>>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and
molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>>>>>>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>>>>>industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>>>>>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>>>>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to >>>>>>>my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>>>>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>>>>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served >>>>>>>by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>>>>>Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream. >>>>>Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people >>>>don't like rum.
I do like rum.
I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used
to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay.
I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)
So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and >>>eaten slowly.
Very Good
Joe
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Find a Bananas Foster recipe. It's a classic dinner dessert or brunch
treat in New Orleans.
I did look at that, and it seemed over the top for SWMBO, but I'll
tempt her. Maybe for a party.
Follow-up item at bottom.
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:52:14 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:12 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:19 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>>>wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>>
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused
the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes> >>>>>>>>>> "...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today> >>>>>>>>>> "Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm >>>>>>>>>> temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>>>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>>>>>>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and
molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>>>>>>>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major >>>>>>>>industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>>>>>>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>>>>>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to
my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>>>>>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>>>>>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served
by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>>>>>>Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream. >>>>>>Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people >>>>>don't like rum.
I do like rum.
I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used
to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay. >>>>I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)
So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and >>>>eaten slowly.
Very Good
Joe
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Find a Bananas Foster recipe. It's a classic dinner dessert or brunch >>>treat in New Orleans.
I did look at that, and it seemed over the top for SWMBO, but I'll
tempt her. Maybe for a party.
Turns out that SWMBO had Bananas Foster at a business conference held
in a major hotel in New Orleans. She liked it a lot, commenting that
it was not too sweet, which she likes. This was well before we met,
but we agree on the too-sweet issue.
So we may make it someday. Or just buy it, if someone local is making
a not-too-sweet version in the Boston metro area.
Joe
On Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:11:25 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
Follow-up item at bottom.
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:52:14 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:12 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:19 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>>wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:06:22 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:15 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>>>>wrote:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:50:50 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>>>
On 3/31/2026 2:05 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:21 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000, someone
<cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> wrote:
Another disaster caused by a transport ship looking to expedite unloading. They heated the molasses to make it flow faster into the tank.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
"They" didn't heat the molasses. It was unseasonably hot which caused
the molasses to expand. There were other causes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Causes> >>>>>>>>>>> "...air temperature rose from 2 to 41 ?F (-17 to 5.0 ?C)" >>>>>>>>>>>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood#Area_today> >>>>>>>>>>> "Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm >>>>>>>>>>> temperatures contributed to the disaster".
The tank was built cheap and fast and never reviewed for design. And >>>>>>>>>> located in a very bad place.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
All of the waterfront of the North End, Charleston/Everett, and East >>>>>>>>>Cambridge were heavily industrialized in the early 1900s. Raw goods (and
molassess apparently) in the NE, petroleum products in >>>>>>>>>Charleston/Everett, and coal gasification in East Cambridge were major
industries.
Nowadays the historically Italian North End is mostly high-end >>>>>>>>>residential/tourist trap area, with a shrinking number of Italian >>>>>>>>>restaurants that tend to serve rather average Italian food, compared to
my childhood recollections.
Only main legacy of the industrial history is the large LNG tanker >>>>>>>>>terminal in Everett, longest-operating liquefied natural gas import >>>>>>>>>facility in the U.S. Remarkably there is only one industry still served
by freight rail inside the Boston city limits, an ABEX logistics warehouse.
There are some good books about rum, like
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91CZYWB>
and the role that Boston played in the Triangle Trade.
Try a tablespoon of good rum on a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Or >>>>>>>>Bananas Foster.
Hmm. I already have the rum and the vanilla bean ice cream. >>>>>>>Hmmmmmmmm.
Joe
Tell us what you think. It seems impossible to me, but some people >>>>>>don't like rum.
I do like rum.
I used some from an old bottle of Myer's Original Dark Rum. (I used >>>>>to have some Capt Morgan, but it was used up. I still have Mount Gay. >>>>>I don't drink these as fast as I did in the day.)
So, I cut up a nice ripe banana into a bowl, put some scoops of >>>>>Vanilla Bean Ice Cream on top, followed by a shot of rum. Stirred and >>>>>eaten slowly.
Very Good
Joe
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Find a Bananas Foster recipe. It's a classic dinner dessert or brunch >>>>treat in New Orleans.
I did look at that, and it seemed over the top for SWMBO, but I'll
tempt her. Maybe for a party.
Turns out that SWMBO had Bananas Foster at a business conference held
in a major hotel in New Orleans. She liked it a lot, commenting that
it was not too sweet, which she likes. This was well before we met,
but we agree on the too-sweet issue.
So we may make it someday. Or just buy it, if someone local is making
a not-too-sweet version in the Boston metro area.
Joe
"Too sweet?" What does that mean?
BF starts by carmelizing brown sugar and butter, and that gets dumped
onto vanilla ice cream. Some sweetness is unavoidable.
People come with very different calibrations.
Yes. And younger people like sweeter foods. What changes over time
is the desired ratio of sugar (glucose, sucrose, and fructose) to lard
or tallow or butter. (Things like Palm Kernel Oil are substitutes for
lard and tallow.)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:20:23 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
Yes. And younger people like sweeter foods. What changes over time
is the desired ratio of sugar (glucose, sucrose, and fructose) to lard
or tallow or butter. (Things like Palm Kernel Oil are substitutes for
lard and tallow.)
Please add lactose to the list. Lactose is a disaccharide composed of >galactose and glucose. Anything that ends in -ose is likely to be a
sugar:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ose>
I'm 78 years old. It's quite possible to develop lactose intolerance
as we get older: ><https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lactose-intolerance/symptoms-causes/syc-20374232>
"Increasing age. Lactose intolerance usually appears in adulthood".
About one year ago, I began experiencing gas, farting, diarrhea, and
pain in the lower intestine area. The symptoms became progressively
worse with time and with the amount and frequency of eating food made
from ingredients containing milk. After a few weeks of volcanic
misery in the bathroom, I isolated the potential culprits to ice
cream, cream cheese (on lox and bagel), peanut M&M's, milk chocolate,
and possibly Nutella hazelnut spread.
On Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:40:19 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:20:23 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
Yes. And younger people like sweeter foods. What changes over time
is the desired ratio of sugar (glucose, sucrose, and fructose) to lard
or tallow or butter. (Things like Palm Kernel Oil are substitutes for
lard and tallow.)
Please add lactose to the list. Lactose is a disaccharide composed of
galactose and glucose. Anything that ends in -ose is likely to be a
sugar:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ose>
I'm 78 years old. It's quite possible to develop lactose intolerance
as we get older:
<https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lactose-intolerance/symptoms-causes/syc-20374232>
"Increasing age. Lactose intolerance usually appears in adulthood".
About one year ago, I began experiencing gas, farting, diarrhea, and
pain in the lower intestine area. The symptoms became progressively
worse with time and with the amount and frequency of eating food made
from ingredients containing milk. After a few weeks of volcanic
misery in the bathroom, I isolated the potential culprits to ice
cream, cream cheese (on lox and bagel), peanut M&M's, milk chocolate,
and possibly Nutella hazelnut spread.
Lactase pills are great with a big bowl of ice cream or cookies and
milk.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
On Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:40:19 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:20:23 -0400, joegwinn@comcast.net wrote:
Yes. And younger people like sweeter foods. What changes over time
is the desired ratio of sugar (glucose, sucrose, and fructose) to lard
or tallow or butter. (Things like Palm Kernel Oil are substitutes for >>>lard and tallow.)
Please add lactose to the list. Lactose is a disaccharide composed of >>galactose and glucose. Anything that ends in -ose is likely to be a
sugar:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ose>
I'm 78 years old. It's quite possible to develop lactose intolerance
as we get older: >><https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lactose-intolerance/symptoms-causes/syc-20374232>
"Increasing age. Lactose intolerance usually appears in adulthood".
About one year ago, I began experiencing gas, farting, diarrhea, and
pain in the lower intestine area. The symptoms became progressively
worse with time and with the amount and frequency of eating food made
from ingredients containing milk. After a few weeks of volcanic
misery in the bathroom, I isolated the potential culprits to ice
cream, cream cheese (on lox and bagel), peanut M&M's, milk chocolate,
and possibly Nutella hazelnut spread.
Lactase pills are great with a big bowl of ice cream or cookies and
milk.
Joe Gwinn wrote:
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|"[. . .] ice cream that is in fact made of cream, not|
|milk." | >|-----------------------------------------------------|
I believe that cream is made of milk.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:45:57 -0000 (UTC), Niocl?s P?l Caile?n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:
Joe Gwinn wrote:
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|"[. . .] ice cream that is in fact made of cream, not|
|milk." | >>|-----------------------------------------------------|
I believe that cream is made of milk.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
You're both wrong:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream>
"Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that
has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative,
and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as
strawberries or peaches."
So it is written. So it must be.
On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:45:57 -0000 (UTC), Niocl?s P?l Caile?n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:
Joe Gwinn wrote:
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|"[. . .] ice cream that is in fact made of cream, not|
|milk." | >>|-----------------------------------------------------|
I believe that cream is made of milk.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
You're both wrong:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream>
"Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that
has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative,
and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as
strawberries or peaches."
So it is written. So it must be.
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