Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 5 mo. ago

Italian herbs and spices

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"Um actually,"

The inner core is solid, the outer core is liquid, and the mantle is kinda...solidish-slushy-sorta.

So the earth is like one of those fancy cherry cordials with the 2 fillings?
- I think a Ferrero Rocher is a good fit. The solid core is the hazelnut, the molten core is the Nutella, the rocky crust is the wafer, and the chocolate and hazelnut coating is the topsoil.
  
  That's great! Ratios are a bit off but we are talking about food, there's no 1:1.
  
  I think the wafer makes sense as the mantle, the chocolate as the oceanic crust and the hazelnut as the continental crust.
  
  A Ferrero Rocher does look like it has mountains on it as well so this tracks.
- Ravioli with meat
- Takoyaki maybe?
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- It won’t be frozen for long.
  
  Self-heating hot pocket 🤤
- Something something Xena tapes.
relevant XKCD
- That alt text is absolutely a mood that I can only respect
Ok, hear me out. It's a scotched egg, but the egg is soft boiled.
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The liquid center bursts out sometimes, it's a soup dumpling
I like to think of the Earth more as a pizza roll. Eating one right out of the oven sure feels like tasting magma to me.
raviolo*
I don't think I've ever had a ravioli that's "molten inside". I'd say most of the time the pasta is the most soft part.
- The mass produced one are like that
Not a ravioli, the casing was not made by pressing or folding two layers of the solid material together
- So subduction zones don't count as "folding" anymore?
  
  Not really, that brings magma currents into the equation, which actually make the comparison even worse since raviolis don't undergo plate tectonic movements
Why is the core of your ravioli molten?
And a ravioli is a filling placed between two grain-dough based layers of even thickness; making it, and thus by extension, the Earth, a sandwich.
- Is a toastie a ravioli or a sandwich?
  
  As I’m going with the ‘ravioli as a subset of sandwich’ paradigm… Yes.
  
  Of course, I recommend referring to the original text for reference.
Xiaolongbao earth.
The core is mostly solid. It's the mantle that is mostly liquid (probably).
- So more like a soup dumpling.
And now I’m hungry.
Sounds microwaved. Molten center with icy parts.
It's more like a mince pie hot from the oven. You can hold it but the insides burn your mouth if you bite into it.
Dont tell Thanatos or he'll float over with some marinara sauce

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