Words of the day

[magid]

I brought a cheesecake to work today, for a going-away lunch. And we ended up talking about guar gum (one of the ingredients in the prefab cake). I had no clue, so I checked ever-useful Google (which any day now I'll stop typing as "Goggle" first), and found that guar is a bean, also known as clusterbean! This is wonderful. ("Bean" isn't the last syllable I'd think of first...)

So, clusterbean. And the gum that makes guar so useful? Also called galactomannan gum. Which is also excellent. Straight out of some SF story. A class of soldiers? A type of futuristic MRE? A weapon? A superhero? A humanoid alien race? A new communications technology?

So anyway, guar is a bean, and in some parts of the world it's eaten as a bean. Now I'm curious what clusterbeans taste like.

Comments

[hyounpark.livejournal.com]

Galactic Manna Gum? It's like Sci-Fi Biblical Gum. Ooh, the cross-marketing potential here is just amazing.

Greedily,
Hyoun

Galactic Manna Gum

[magid.livejournal.com]

Definitely a Wonka product!