doublej5723
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The United States Army once paid Hershey's to make the worst chocolate bar in history....
It was 1937 and Captain Paul Logan of US Army Quartermaster General's office sat down with Hershey's chief chemist Sam Hinkle and gave him one of the strangest product briefs in the history of food manufacturing. He needed a chocolate bar that weighed four ounces, could withstand extreme heat without melting, delivered enough calories to keep a soldier alive in an emergency, and tasted, in Logan's exact words, only a little better than a boiled potato.
He did not want it to taste good. If it tasted good soldiers would eat it whenever they felt like it and have nothing left when they actually needed it. The solution was to engineer the palatability out of it deliberately. Make it just edible enough that a starving man would eat it. Make it just unpleasant enough that no one would eat it for fun.
Hinkle got to work. He cut the sugar dramatically. He increased the bitter chocolate liquor. He added oat flour, which created a dry, chalky, unpleasant texture. The resulting mixture was so thick and stiff that it could not be poured into molds at all. Every single bar had to be pressed in by hand. Before the war ended Hershey's had made more than three billion of them.
When American GIs discovered that European civilians, who had never encountered the D ration bar and had no established low expectations of it, would accept a piece of Hershey's military chocolate with genuine enthusiasm, some soldiers began trading their bars to unsuspecting locals in exchange for cigarettes, food and goodwill, then watching the civilian take their first bite with a mixture of guilt and private amusement.
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@aaak_Ellie Liberi only have 2 ears i think, so this took those and their head feathers
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@DesireeAmerica4 There is a major difference between a box and a trashbag. Trashbags can snag and tear on so many things it's not even funny, and trying to lift a heavy bag will likely just result in having to fill another bag again.
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A Chick-fil-A employee using a mechanical lift to throw away a single trash bag just sparked a massive culture war.
Blue-collar workers filmed it from above, laughing and saying modern men have gotten completely soft. Half the internet agrees, bragging about slinging 50lb boxes into trailers by hand all day.
The other half says Chick-fil-A is brilliant. Fast-food trash is incredibly heavy, and this machine saves employees' backs while preventing massive workers' comp lawsuits.
Are we becoming a weak society, or is this just smart corporate safety?
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@Distrbeachboy She would have killed you long before if it wasn't good.
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@neutral_af Are there any model markings. I have one like it but it's so worn out that none of the markings are visible
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It's seen better days but I won't turn down a free gun
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I planned to make this for a while,
Robin in OL situation.
Using minimum color.
#アークナイツ #Arknights #明日方舟
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