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It seems that what all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t do is now at least partly being done by scientists.
After Humpty Dumpty’s great fall, it’s a pretty sure bet that the wall was splattered with clear gooey slime. If some thoughtless
servant had then tried to boil him up for the king’s dinner, that slime would have thickened and whitened.
CNBC reports that
this thickening/whitening process is caused by the tighter entanglement of egg proteins upon heating. Their original “clear and mucus-like” state then becomes “white and rubbery.”
Now it’s bad enough to be cracked into smithereens, but morphed into something white and rubbery? Not
this egg!
Court magicians therefore scrambled to come up with a way to unboil Humpty, but with no luck at all.
Nevertheless, time has a way of smoothing all tangles.
All it took were a few hundred years plus some ace “researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Flinders University in Australia.” These days, it’s even possible for Mother Goose to lay a golden egg without worrying about whether all that glitter will end up white and rubbery.
Resources
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102364302
Copyright January 25, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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