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How Flammable is Margarine???
Dear Scientists,
"A teenage wrong-way driver was killed when his car crashed into a truck loaded with highly-flammable margarine…. 'Basically, margarine is oil and it burns quite well,' Mark McKinnon, Georgia Department of Transportation spokesman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution."
Huh! Talk to us about this "highly-flammable" spread, in words of science! (via)








Margarine is butter. Butter is fat, right? And fat is candles. So!
Dude. I'm not a pyro but one of the coolest flammable food items are doritos. Cheezie Puffs are great too –they burn with all the colours of the rainbow. Deep fried fat candles.
The only time my old man ever hit me was when I was 11. It was a Sunday afternoon, late November, just after Thanksgiving, and it was cold out. We were sitting in the TV room with the fire going watching Space:1999 and once the flames began to die down, daddy sent me out back to bring in a new load of fire Cheetos. I said I would soon as the next commercial comes on. "Bring it in now," he said," before it goes completely out." I let out one of those dramatic sighs that kids do and stomped off. I made a big show of slinging my jacket on and putting my boots on and huffed and puffed, the whole angry-little-put-upon-kid works, including slamming the door hard on the way out. The fire Cheetos were stacked out back behind the garage. By the time I got back there I was pretty worked up. And hungry, too. When I get mad I get hungry, which Angie says is why I put on so much weight when I was working for that asshole Tom Jenkins. But that's a whole different thing. I was too young to put anger and eating together back then. I just knew I was hungry and to be honest I probably wanted to get back at dad in some passive aggressive way. You know where this is headed, right? Yep, I sat down and I ate every last one of those goddamn fire Cheetos. No sooner had I put the final one in my mouth when I heard the back door slam. I looked up and saw daddy standing behind me shaking, literally shaking with rage. "Stand up!," he yelled. So I did. And he hit me with an open hand. Right in the face. I guess I deserved it. I spent the rest of the afternoon with hurt pride and a sore jaw chopping Doritos! Hahaha! The real irony is that the following winter we stopped burning cheese-flavored snack foods altogether and switched to plastic.
Awesome.
I want to develop a log-sized Cheeto. For burning in the TV room.
any kind of chips are fun to burn
Ass butter will make a pretty good sterno.
Yup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc_Tunnel#The_1999_fire
That picture makes me hungry for fat.
Any Crisco ignition footage? It can't be pretty.
"It's not nice to fuel Mother Nature!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8
This is the kind of thing that really makes me love the internet.
Ugh, I have such a good music video idea involving spontaneous human combustion…
"I can't believe it's not napalm!"
It's not flammable anyhow. It's inflammable. You kids.
I love the smell of margarine in the morning. It smells like…toast.