Have you ever opened up a box of Corn Pops and thought to yourself, "Why are these in a silver bag?" Could Corn Pops have originally have served as a emergency rations for Moon-bound astronauts? Are they recycled from used emergency blankets? Well, here's possibly the real reason thanks to the folks at Straight Dope. Thanks SD!

(1) Corn Pops and Smacks apparently are the only "puffed grain" cereals Kellogg's makes. (Post also has Super Golden Crisp, which is a cheap Smacks ripoff.) So, they're fundamentally different from the other cereal types, which typically are ground grains.

(2) This difference means that the cereal itself is unflavored (most cereals start as a pasty mix which is then turned into whatever shape cereal is desired), and also a bit prone to drying out, and therefore it must be sugar-glazed.

(3) Sugar glazing is hygroscopic (absorbs water), and if these cereals absorb water vapor, they stick together. You can do this experiment yourself by leaving one of these cereals open in an even slightly humid place.

(4) Evidently, the folks at Kellogg's decided that these cereals got stale too quickly inside the normal bags, suggesting that water vapor can penetrate them. Therefore, they developed the foil-lined bags (which would indeed be impermeable) and solved the problems that way.

Alright amateurs. It's time to step up to the big leagues this year with St. Patty's Day. This is going to be another year where you're going to have a couple Green Guinesses and some Jamison's and say that you properly honored the great St. Patricks. Fuck no! This year, you're going to do it right and honor the Saint right like a big boy. You're gonna start drinking at the crack of 9 (am) and go until your liver starts yelling, "Praise Jesus!"

9 am: Start off with some Irish Coffee to wake you up and buzz you up

2/3 part freshly brewed coffee
1/3 part Irish whiskey
2 tsp brown sugar
lightly whipped cream

Stir it up well. And make it in a Big Gulp so that 1/3 is like 1000/3.

Noon- 5 pm: Make some boiled potatoes to soak up some of that whiskey and have a Pint of Guiness every 2 hours just to keep the buzz going during work.

5 pm: Take the bus home.

5 pm - Midnight: Celebration!! Here are the drinks I recommed. At least one drink an hour.

Irish Shillelagh

1 ½ ounces Irish whiskey

½ ounce light rum, ½ ounce sloe gin

1 teaspoon powdered sugar

1 ounce lemon juice

¼ cup of diced peaches,

¼ cup raspberries.

Combine the ingredients in a blender, and garnish with raspberries.

Depth Charge

Mix 2 ounces Green Apple Pucker with a pint of Guiness. Pour the Pucker first and stir slightly.

Irish Car Bombs

1/2 pint Guinness (in a glass)
1 oz Jamison
1/2 oz Bailey's Irish cream

Drop the Jamison's into the Guiness. Drink before it curdles <---IMPORTANT. Otherwises, gross.

And for my favorite, Mooing Irish Pepsi

3 oz Bailey's Irish cream
2 oz Pepsi cola
2 oz milk

Mix together and enjoy!

I hope these recipes help make your St. Patty's Day the best it ever was. If you don't black out on St. Patty's Day, you haven't celebrated it right.

I am so hungry right now! But my fatigue is keeping me from cooking something or going out to grab a bite. So I have resorted to watching food porn. Oh, you thought this was gonna be about straight up porn?! Psssshh! That's so 2007.

Food porn is what I watch when I get hungry but am too tired, lazy, or sick to cook. Food porn is video of food being prepared or eaten. But never being excreted. That's key.

Now, I don't get any weird pleasure from it, but it gives me hope for the future. Hope thatcome a new day, I will hunger no more. Kind of like Moses leading his people to the land of milk and honey. I guess you can call me the modern day Moses. But for myself and not for anybody else.

And here's the video I watched. I was too tired to find the Food Network.

Pretty Legit Food Even Fucksticks Like You Can Make:

Easy Pasta Dish

What you need:

2-3 tomatoes

2-3 cloves of garlic (thats how you count the small crap you find in a whole garlic)

2-3 fresh basil

Linguine (flat spaghetti)

Lemon

Salt

Pepper

Olive Oil

How to Make:

first cut up some tomatoes into little cubes

then cut the garlic into pretty small portions

start boiling the pasta

put the tomatoes and garlic into a bowl

once the pasta is ready, put it in the bowl, shred up some basil, administer some salt, pepper and lemon, then dunk some olive oil on there (olive oil can be replaced by vaginal juices since you'll be getting alot because girls love it when you know how to cook*)

mix the shit out of it, serve and eat. pretty simple

*or she thinks your gay

Ingedients

 1lb Wheat boiled for 30 minutes

3lb wheat malt

3lb honey

1.0oz Sterling

0.5oz NB

1.0oz Tettnanger

 FYI

Alcohol: 5.5%

Makes about 55 beers

Procedure

 Bring to a boil 5 gallons of water. Add 1lb of generic wheat grain in a seeping bag (easy removal) and continue to boil for 30 minutes. Remove the bag and slowly mix in the 3lb wheat malt, and the 3lb of honey. Boil for 20 minutes and adjust for evaporated water. For the hops boil in seeping bags and remove before pouring into the carboy. Add 1.0oz sterling hops and boil for 15 minutes. Add 0.5oz Northern Brewer and boil for 20 minutes. Add 1.0oz Tettnanger and boil for 10 minutes. Cool the pot in an ice bath (bath-tub works well) until the temperature reaches 76 degrees F. Pour the pot into the carboy and add selected yeast (your preference). Put the stopper and air lock on top and store dark room in a temperature range of 65-74 degrees (or depending on your yeast used). Racking the beer is recommended but not required. After 2 weeks or when little if any bubbling is viewed at the air lock, bottle the beer. Add about a table spoon of corn sugar to each bottle and cap. Beer will be ready at about 10 days.

modifications may happen down the line but stay tuned