Gross. But also not much grosser than eating off delicious animal corpses.
Would you like dirty bean water or dirty leaf water with your charred carrion, sir?
Those honey stick ball spoon things are so fucking dumb. Just use a regular spoon, fork, or butter knife.
Never used one myself, but apparently lightly spinning them helps the honey not drip because it’s so viscous. Stop spinning it and it can be drizzled.
Had to search online because I never understood why one would not just use a spoon either, but if it means there’s not as many little honey trails on the edge of the container, I can see the point. Learned something new today!
You can do that rolling trick for the dribble with standard flatware, you do have to spin faster though to get it to work well.
The same idea applies to things you’re pouring out of; twist axially while tipping the container upright and you’ll have dramatically less spillage, even with viscous fluids like honey.
Honey is great, but probably my favorite most interesting bug byproduct is shellac.
chitin&chitosan
research
TLDR: “Chitosan and derivatives have been explored in the development of nanomaterials, bioadhesives, wound dressing materials, improved drug delivery systems, enteric coatings, and in medical devices.”
…Why did they pour it into a contact lens though?
How many others have we tried? 🤨
Two words: Ant milk. Imagine the marketing campaign.
“We need child labor because only a child’s hands are small and delicate enough to squeeze the ant teat.”
Thank you so much for volunteering, for the sake of science! :-P