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Oct 14, 2006

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.

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on 2006-10-14 14:11:26.0, rone commented:

He was famous for polishing his coat of arms to a gloucessy finish.

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and, further, on 2006-10-14 14:13:49.0, ben wolfson commented:

You can take jokes like that and get loucest, rone.

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and, further, on 2006-10-14 14:58:32.0, rone commented:

Yes, those jokes go from bad to Worcester.

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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.

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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.

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and, further, on 2006-10-14 15:07:29.0, ben wolfson commented:

making sucrosages

ITYM "getting him convicted on grounds of gross indecency".

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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).

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and, further, on 2006-10-15 0:51:27.0, standpipe b commented:

What’s sucrose for the goocrose is sucrose for the galnonder.

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and, further, on 2006-10-15 14:46:42.0, m. leblanc commented:

Best. Poucest. Ever.

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and, further, on 2006-10-15 17:00:47.0, mcmc commented:

beicest.

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and, further, on 2006-10-15 20:18:35.0, standpipe b commented:

It's time we laid this conceit to reicest.

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and, further, on 2007-10-03 22:22:49.0, KM commented:

Though a year late, my sincerest British applesauce.

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and, further, on 2007-10-03 22:30:54.0, ben wolfson commented:

Oh very well done indeed.

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