Custard is of course a cliche here. In order to remedy this problem, i suggest that we attempt to find the opposite of custard and for every idea which involves custard, post an equal and opposite idea. Then the custard and anti- custard ideas will mutually annihilate, releasing enormous amounts of creative energy for us all to harness in some kind of gym.
Possible examples: ketchup, silly putty, non-drip paint, molasses, toothpaste.
The substance should be blue, of course.
Then you come up with an idea like this:
Ketchup (or something else)-filled speed bumps: prevent slow vehicles from progressing while allowing faster ones past, thereby encouraging traffic to speed through residential areas.-- nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009 Anti-custard in use http://i122.photobu...hly/anti-trifle.jpg(in anti-trifle) [nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009] Planets Halfbakery http://i122.photobu...thly/custardier.pngSunaru and Enutpen [nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009] Catastrophe theory http://en.wikipedia.../Catastrophe_theoryNot necessarily custard-based. [8th of 7, Nov 17 2009] Chilli chocolate http://www.montezum.../showitem.asp?i=824The best [pocmloc, Nov 20 2009] Properties of custard: yellow, warm, sweet, viscous fluid, nutritious, popular.
Would Anti-Custard have exactly the same physical properties, or exactly the opposite ?
Anti-hydrogen and Anti-deuterium have exactly the same physical properties as their normal counterparts; same boiling point, atomic mass, etc.
So is this Antimatter Custard, or Anti-Custard, which would probably be a thin, cold, blue-coloured poisonous bitter-tasting gas ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 16 2009 Interesting point. Maybe i'm looking for bizarro custard rather than anti-custard, but the thing is, that wouldn't release energy if it collided with custard.
If it did collide with custard, would speed make a difference?
And yes, i can totally see that Uranus is made of anti- custard. Or Neptune.-- nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009 why is blue opposite? custard of the cornstarch type is white. yes, yes, egg custard is yellow, but I thought we had cleared up this confusion years ago... so based on non-newtonian white, I go with burnt marshmallows.
edit: thanks 8th, I thought it looked wrong. too lazy to spell check sometimes.-- dentworth, Nov 16 2009 // neutonian //
Newtonian ?
Neutronium ?
Newts ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 16 2009 Marshmallow the plant is an oddly underexploited material, i've long thought. Yes, definite possibilities there.-- nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009 If this is the basic custard recipe: Ingredients: 2 cups milk 2 eggs 1/8 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar
I would think you could make it like this: 1/2 cup water 1 chicken 8 TBLS. pepper 1/2 teaspoon lemon bitters there you have it!-- xandram, Nov 16 2009 If eggs become chicken, wouldn't milk become beef?-- bungston, Nov 16 2009 The scary part is that [xandram]'s suggestion might actually be quite edible ......-- 8th of 7, Nov 16 2009 This does rather beg the question of what's on the dessert menu in the LHC staff restaurant ....-- 8th of 7, Nov 16 2009 // This does rather beg the question of what's on the dessert menu in the LHC staff restaurant ...// Something with baguette.-- gnomethang, Nov 16 2009 "Do you want Bosons with that...?"-- 8th of 7, Nov 16 2009 [Bigsleep]'s version is probably the closest to my original idea. [Xandram]'s sounds edible. I've always thought of the edibility of HB custard to be akin to the edibility of certain minerals - not really relevant to their properties.
What's the opposite of vanilla?-- nineteenthly, Nov 16 2009 //WE discovered a substance we called dratsuc, laast night. Will it do, for now? — UnaBubba, Nov 16 2009//Did nobody else spot that? [8th of 7] has finally broken loose. We're all dooooooooooooooooooomed.-- kaz, Nov 16 2009 I always thought mustard was the opposite of custard!-- MikeOliver, Nov 16 2009 I think the LHC will probably produce it in the end, but we could just sit around and wait for Boltzmann dratsuc to materialise somewhere in a large wobbly heap. But would it be wobbly?-- nineteenthly, Nov 17 2009 so [bungston] is right about about the milk/beef thing! I think we need to collaborate on this... be back later.-- xandram, Nov 17 2009 It suggests there could be alternating generations of custard and non-custard. Non-custard is some kind of meaty stew with some unusual herbal ingredients, then it gives way to custard, which in turn transitions into the stew.-- nineteenthly, Nov 17 2009 Is it a linear transition, or a quantum state change ?
<link>-- 8th of 7, Nov 17 2009 If you had an opaque bottle with a nipple/teat on the end, it could contain uncollapsed custardoid waves and you'd have to suck it and see.-- nineteenthly, Nov 17 2009 Custard (proper custard, not school "pseudocustard") tends to be homogeneous, with a smooth surface, particularly once it has cooled and a skin has formed, suggesting that it has anentropic properties.
Stew has a rather more fractal quality... does this support the concept of onion gravy being "anti-custard" ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 17 2009 It was invented, but failed in the marketplace in competition with the Cream Horn.-- 8th of 7, Nov 17 2009 And the tuba made of bread-- pocmloc, Nov 17 2009 // tuba made of bread //
No, pasta ... haven't you heard of the "Cannelonium" ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 17 2009 Sounds like some kind of Trumped up Jam-- gnomethang, Nov 17 2009 What will you play, "Strawberry Fields", or are you just planning a jam session ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 18 2009 The whole thing sounds a bit drastuc.-- csea, Nov 18 2009 //drastuc// sp.-- pocmloc, Nov 18 2009 Now i wonder what cistard would be, and how i'd spell it.-- nineteenthly, Nov 18 2009 Isn't that more properly known as pustard ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 18 2009 My eyes get all unglazed when I think of smooth yellow custard sliding down my throat.-- blissmiss, Nov 18 2009 Ew!
That's the precise reason i hate custard as a food item (not as a fluid or whatever though).-- nineteenthly, Nov 18 2009 Abscesses make the heart grow fonder...-- 8th of 7, Nov 19 2009 What bigsleep said.-- DrBob, Nov 19 2009 You are so right, [UB]. Who'd've thought we have that in common?-- nineteenthly, Nov 19 2009 What would an Einsteinian fluid be?-- nineteenthly, Nov 19 2009 [marked-for-deletion] "bad science"/ "theory"/ "we should research..."/ "magic"-- hippo, Nov 19 2009 /so [bungston] is right about about the milk/beef thing! I think we need to collaborate on this... be back later.'/
Depends on which came first, the chicken or the egg.-- outloud, Nov 19 2009 Let's pour some into the LHC, and see if we can find the fabled Birds-Tickle particle/anti-particle rotating pair-- Dub, Nov 19 2009 Every time I think of custard, images of abscesses spring unbidden to my mind. I can't stand the stuff. — UnaBubba, Nov 19 2009
When did you last have abscess and does it spred well om toast?-- outloud, Nov 19 2009 // spred //
Sp: "Spurt"-- 8th of 7, Nov 19 2009 Got me and improved upon. :)-- outloud, Nov 19 2009 I've decided that the opposite of milk is Chocolate Milk, therefore something like Chocolate chicken soup with lots of pepper should do it for me.-- xandram, Nov 19 2009 //What's the opposite of vanilla?// If we use the definition of vanilla as "a flavouring substance...used in ice cream, chocolate and other foods." [thank you, Chambers Dictionary], then surely the opposite of vanilla would be "substance removed from ice cream etc to unflavour it". Sounds like vanilla to me! Ergo, everything is the opposite of itself.-- DrBob, Nov 19 2009 //which came first, the chicken or the egg// I don't understand this question, it's obvious that there were egg-laying animals millions of years before chickens or any other kind of bird had evolved.-- pocmloc, Nov 19 2009 [Hippo], whereas i would hesitate to defend this idea on the grounds that it isn't frivolous, i do have a what passes for serious here intention in posting it.
There are many good custard-themed ideas here and some other ideas which use custard. On the whole, they use custard to mean a shear- thickening fluid which happens to be edible rather than an edible fluid which happens to be shear- thickening. There are also shear-thinning fluids, for instance ketchup. My imagination is sometimes paralysed by custard, and for all i know "ketchup", i.e. something whose viscosity would describe a complementary curve when plotted against shear or strain to custard, has just as many applications. Moreover, there are other non- Newtonian fluids which behave differently again. All i'm really doing here is expressing a wish to think up applications for other types of non- Newtonian fluid and regret that my ability to think of them is impaired by the thought of custard whenever i try. But then maybe the reason for that is that escaping custard involves gentle but persistent thought rather than brute-force thought, so it's also mentally shear-thickening.
For that reason, i would resist the proposition that this be deleted unless you suggest it more gently.-- nineteenthly, Nov 19 2009 // Chocolate chicken soup with lots of pepper //
Interestingly, there is a variation on the classic Mexican "Chilli con Carne" which uses Xocolatl - chocolate.
The Aztecs were fond of drinking a concoction of dark, bitter chocolate spiced with Chillis. Making a Chilli con carne using chicken and dark, bitter chocolate sounds remarkably enticing.-- 8th of 7, Nov 19 2009 I haven't made that exactly, but i did make it with tofu instead of chicken. It was interesting to try once, not disgusting, but i wouldn't care to try it again.-- nineteenthly, Nov 19 2009 //Now i wonder what cistard would be//[nineteenthly]
The inverted isomer of transtard of course.-- BunsenHoneydew, Nov 19 2009 Does it have enantiomers too?-- nineteenthly, Nov 20 2009 Nicht so viele wie Zweistein, wahrscheinlich.-- nineteenthly, Nov 20 2009 What's the sound of one hand - no, what's the sound of a knocker - no, what's the sound of a door without - er ...
Got it: If a 'Baker responds to [UB], do they make sense?-- nineteenthly, Mar 20 2010 random, halfbakery