Many unexpected, happy accidents have resulted from simple goofing around in the science lab—innovations from Penicillin to Silly Putty to low-cal/melt-free chocolate. What's that you say? There's no such thing as low-cal/melt-free chocolate. Oooooh, you are so wrong, friends.
Here's the story: Swiss scientists were playing around in the lab—working on some useless project completely unrelated to low calories or melting—when they realized that they had created (read the following in a Swiss accent, for maximum effect) "a very special chocolate, of a crispy, light consistency, like an airy foam, and we thought let's see if we can develop this further." They did develop it further and the result is Vulcano, a chocolate variety that contains 90% fewer calories and only melts above 131 degrees Fahrenheit (that's 55C for our pals across the Atlantic, and 328.15K, for those of you too smart for your own good). Which means no more chocolate-covered homework like the kind you get when you forget that you threw a Hershey's/Dairy Milk in your backpack.
Further taste-tests will be in order to see if Vulcano is a success (we'll take care of those, thank-you-very-much). But in the meantime, we have some requests for those food scientists. Here are some other problems we'd like you to solve—either intentionally or by accident, whatevs:
- Pizza that doesn't burn the roof of your mouth
- Kernel-free popcorn
- Asparagus that doesn't make your pee smell funny
- Chocolate that contains a day's worth of vitamins but tastes like regular chocolate
- Slushees and Popsicles that don't give you brain freeze
- Crackers that don't produce crumbs
- Gum that keeps you from biting your tongue
- Chocolate that continually replenishes itself
- Strawberries without those tiny little seeds
- Durian that doesn't smell like donkey butt and onions (but still tastes delicious)
- Powdered sugar donuts that keep the powdered sugar on the donut, instead of depositing it all over your face
- Corn on the cob that doesn't get stuck in your teeth
- Cantaloupe rind that changes color when the inside is ripe
- Chocolate that makes you smarter
- Bread that doesn't go stale
- Unbreakable eggs
- Purple oranges (just for fun, ya know?)
- Lima beans that taste good
- Cereal that never gets soggy in milk
- Breath-freshening garlic that still tastes like garlic
- Magical chocolate that gives you the ability to fly. (Okay, so we have a very slight chocolate obsession.)
What Wonka-like food improvements would you like to see? Or do you prefer your food science-free?
Topics: Life
Tags: food, inventions, chocolate
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