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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gross. But also not much grosser than eating off delicious animal corpses.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 45 points 10 months ago

Would you like dirty bean water or dirty leaf water with your charred carrion, sir?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those honey stick ball spoon things are so fucking dumb. Just use a regular spoon, fork, or butter knife.

[–] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Never used one myself, but apparently lightly spinning them helps the honey not drip because it's so viscous. Stop spinning it and it can be drizzled.

Had to search online because I never understood why one would not just use a spoon either, but if it means there's not as many little honey trails on the edge of the container, I can see the point. Learned something new today!

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

You can do that rolling trick for the dribble with standard flatware, you do have to spin faster though to get it to work well.

The same idea applies to things you’re pouring out of; twist axially while tipping the container upright and you’ll have dramatically less spillage, even with viscous fluids like honey.

[–] boweeb@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honey is great, but probably my favorite most interesting bug byproduct is shellac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

chitin&chitosan
research
TLDR: "Chitosan and derivatives have been explored in the development of nanomaterialsbioadhesiveswound dressing materials, improved drug delivery systems, enteric coatings, and in medical devices."

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

...Why did they pour it into a contact lens though?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How many others have we tried? 🤨

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Two words: Ant milk. Imagine the marketing campaign.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 10 months ago

"We need child labor because only a child's hands are small and delicate enough to squeeze the ant teat."

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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for volunteering, for the sake of science! :-P