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Halfbakery: Idea: Custard-themed
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Basically, a category for ideas featuring large amounts of custard. As custard is a thing dear to the hearts of many 'bakers, it would be a comfortingly pointless thing to have.
—up_on_cloud_nine, Feb 12 2009

One of the 'custard' greats... Custard-Filled_20Speed_20Bumps
[up_on_cloud_nine, Feb 12 2009]

jelly tops jelly_20tops
[po, Feb 13 2009]

Whitestable mum in custard shortage http://www.thisiske...detail/article.html
Note to self, work "last me quite a few crumbles" into conversation more often. [jutta, Jun 23 2009]

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       or a category based on themes lifted from popular culture/fiction
—FlyingToaster, Feb 12 2009
   

       If a joke gets common enough to make you think about giving it its very own category, maybe it's time to switch to something else. The device has become predictable, and is more often used by people who want to make sure they're funny than by people who actually thought of it afresh.
—jutta, Feb 12 2009
   

       so what's the etymology of that anyways ?... I recently re-read Tom Holt's "Earth, Air, Fire and Custard"
—FlyingToaster, Feb 12 2009
   

       You have a point [jutta]... I don't think this is one of my best ideas... :^§
—up_on_cloud_nine, Feb 13 2009
   

       The speed bumps idea is a quality idea that happened to use custard because of it's inherent properties - not because custard seems like a weird and funny basis for an idea.   

       I think what [jutta] is really getting at is that it's time to move on to jelly/jello based ideas.
—Jinbish, Feb 13 2009
   

       I did jelly technology ages ago
—po, Feb 13 2009
   

       Jelly? Hmmm... I see your point, but blancmange seems far superior in the fact that it is like jelly but *not* jelly :^)
—up_on_cloud_nine, Feb 13 2009
   

       In a genuine idea featuring custard, it is used as an example of a common substance with the required properties. Such ideas fit into whichever category the item belongs in, like 'vehicle:car: speed bump' not what they are made of, which is why there isn't a 'Plastic' category.
—marklar, Feb 14 2009
   

       re: jutta's link.

I notice that, although described as a 'keen baker' (aren't we all?), the woman in question wasn't so keen as to actually spend a few minutes to make her own custard rather than traipse around the town for hours looking for a tin of custard powder. There's no hope for some people.
—DrBob, Jun 24 2009
   

       bump!
—knowtion, Oct 18 2009
   

       OK, so not this, but "Halfbakery:Idea:non-Newtonian fluid themed"? That would imply that there were others. In fact, are there any non-custardy non-Newtonian fluid ideas on here?
—nineteenthly, Oct 19 2009
   
      
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