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FULL MOON PIE • The Mountain City Flour Mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee produced a lot of flour- so much so that they set up the Chattanooga Bakery whose purpose was to find new ways to use up excess flour. By 1910 the bakery had a product line of over 200 confections. In 1917 a bakery manager named Earl Mitchell was trying to think up new ideas for better products when he had a chat with some local miners. The miners said they wanted something to put in their lunch pails that was sweet, solid, filling, and big. “How big?” said Mitchell. About that time the moon was rising, so one of the miners held up his hands to frame the full moon and said, “About that big!” Thus, the MoonPie was born. The combination of cookie, marshmallow, and chocolate was so popular that by the 1950s the bakery stopped producing anything else but the MoonPie.
MYSTERY OF WINT-O-GREEN • If you go into a completely dark room, let your can this eyes adjust, then bite or smash a Wint-O-Green can this Life Saver, faint blue sparks can be seen. Why? Did you ever watch a car drag a metal object GRAND FORKS HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER along pavement? Ever see someone sharpenSign up today for this ongoing study online at http://ars.usda.gov/pa/gfhnrc ing a knife on a grinding stone? Ever brush *USDA is an equal Call 701-795-8396 or 1-800-562-4032 or opportunity provider your hair or pet the cat on a dry night in the and employer. scan the QR Code with your smart-phone darkness? Sparks. There are always sparks. If you energize an atom with heat or electricity or friction, that atom will give off light. A Wint-OGreen Life Saver is flavored with an oily chemical called methyl salicylate. When you bite on the Life Saver, you fracture sugar crystals and the energy is imparted to the methyl salicylate, which incandesces as a result. It doesn’t happen when you suck on the Life Saver because that does not impart any forceful kind of energy to the candy. It doesn’t happen with other flavors because methyl salicylate fluoresces easily and other flavoring agents don’t. P.O. Box 12861 • Grand Forks, ND 58208-2861 • (701) 772-8239 Cell: (701) 740-0968 • E-Mail: wickpub@yahoo.com
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