Corn Meal Mush

Corn Meal Mush
From Aunt Teresa
Unbelievably yummy. Not your normal corn meal mush, this is sweet.

½ stick butter (4T)
2C milk
1/3 C corn meal
¼ - ½ C sugar



Melt butter
Add rest of ingredients.
Cook over medium heat, stirring it until it thickens ( about 5 – 10 min)

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Prompts - Your Favorite Booze Under The Microscope

I’m sure that when most of you are sipping on your favorite cocktail- be it a piña colada or a cosmopolitan- the first thing that comes to mind is not “I wonder what this would look like under a microscope…” But just in case you did, an awesome company called BevShots has combined art, booze and science to give you a magnificent array of colorful microscope photographs of your favorite tipple.

How do they do it? They first crystallize the beverage on a microscope slide, and then take pictures using a polarized light microscope with a camera attached. As the light passes through the crystals, some amazing colors and patterns show up. The result is pretty mesmerizing. Check out a few of our favorites:


Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/your-favorite-booze-under-microscope#2mmljmiAUQdgYwAe.99

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Drabble Cascade #62 - 'cork'

FB3X Drabble Cascade #62 - Cork

Title: Your Favorite Drink Under The Microscope (m/m, science in action. PG)
Author: charisstoma
Word count:100
Prompt: cork
crystalized alcohol under the microscope


Phillip opened another bottle and James giggled, who said research couldn’t be fun. They were careful to take a sample from the first pour out and another from the dregs, labeling each specimen with precise and accurate lettering. The rest of the bottles’ contents, well one had to do something with them. Surprisingly, even after the hang-overs, it turned out scientific method had been maintained,
each sample crystallized on a microscopic slide and ready to photograph.

“What the fuck, what’s on this one?” James held up the slide labeled “Phillip”.

Phillip blushed grinning, “You said you liked my flavor best.”