Did you know?
Glucose (pronouced "glose") isn't actually any different from ordinary sucrose. It's just what they call it in England, where for a long time the only one allowed to refine sugar (not personally, you understand, but in an extended sense) was the Duke of Gloucester.
Comments
on 2006-10-14 14:11:26.0, rone commented:
He was famous for polishing his coat of arms to a gloucessy finish.
and, further, on 2006-10-14 14:13:49.0, ben wolfson commented:
You can take jokes like that and get loucest, rone.
and, further, on 2006-10-14 14:58:32.0, rone commented:
Yes, those jokes go from bad to Worcester.
and, further, on 2006-10-14 15:00:35.0, ben wolfson commented:
So, you hear about the farmer who strung a bell necklacewise from one of his cows? Yeah, he did it leicester approach go unnoticed.
and, further, on 2006-10-14 15:06:14.0, Nakku commented:
But the Duke of Sucroster was allowed to force meat into a tube of intestine, making sucrosages.
and, further, on 2006-10-14 15:07:29.0, ben wolfson commented:
making sucrosages
ITYM "getting him convicted on grounds of gross indecency".
and, further, on 2006-10-15 1:55:27.0, DrJ commented:
Ummmmm actually glucose is a 6-membered sugar ring while sucrose is made up of a glucose ring joined to a fructose (which is a five membered ring if anyone is counting).
and, further, on 2006-10-15 0:51:27.0, standpipe b commented:
What’s sucrose for the goocrose is sucrose for the galnonder.
and, further, on 2006-10-15 14:46:42.0, m. leblanc commented:
Best. Poucest. Ever.
and, further, on 2006-10-15 17:00:47.0, mcmc commented:
beicest.
and, further, on 2006-10-15 20:18:35.0, standpipe b commented:
It's time we laid this conceit to reicest.
and, further, on 2007-10-03 22:22:49.0, KM commented:
Though a year late, my sincerest British applesauce.
and, further, on 2007-10-03 22:30:54.0, ben wolfson commented:
Oh very well done indeed.