mystery meat

[kismet09]

I have, at minimum, the following meats in my freezer: bacon; chicken apple sausage; pork sausage patties; ground beef; hot dogs; sweet italian sausage. Trouble is, they're all wrapped in waxed paper, and then in foil, and I have no concept of which one is which, especially at 7 in the morning when I'm trying to make breakfast (meat over rice is a breakfast of choice for me). Someone needs to invent transparent aluminum foil. I recognize that alumnium foil is made of aluminum, and thus unlikely to be made transparent due to its intrinsic chemical properties, but come on, scientists -- I know one of you out there is up for the challenge. Or I suppose I could just start wrapping my foods in freezer bags instead, or labelling them.

Comments

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Transparent aluminium!

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

[sharkycharming.livejournal.com]

Hey cool! I should quickly grab the idea for foil and patent it. Not that I know anything about inventing, or science, or business, or patents for that matter. Also, I am sure that someone has beat me to it.

I have no entrepreneurial spirit.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

eee! now as soon as it costs less than the bacon itself, i am totally going to get some!

[sharkycharming.livejournal.com]

Seriously -- if they can make colored bubbles then they can make transparent foil. But also, Kate, yes, you could just label the foil while you're waiting for the invention. You could even pre-make some stickers that say "bacon", "sausage," "ground beef," etc., and then all you would have to do is stick one on there.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

stickers!

or i could get those bacon-looking bandages, and put those on the bacon packages -- now they'll just have to make bandages in other common meat varieties.

[sharkycharming.livejournal.com]

You could get these meat stickers.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

those are so great! as are the parasite pals! eee!

[rmfleming.livejournal.com]

Bacon to keep in the car! (http://www.accoutrements.com/products/11076.html)

[raencloud.livejournal.com]

Transparent aluminum is a Star Trek movie reference.. or am I the only person nerdy enough to know that?

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

hm. i'm sure there are others as star-trek-knowledgeable as that, but i am not one of them. did they use it to wrap their meat products?

[raencloud.livejournal.com]

I'm used to being the only nerd around. In Star Trek IV, they travel back in time to procure two humpback whales to save the world and they make the tank they keep the whales in for transport out of transparent aluminum.

The scene where they discuss the transparent aluminum is one of the funnier parts of a painfully late-80s Star Trek movie with a heavy-handed environmental message.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Ziplock bags even have a place for you to write on them :-)

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

it's like they were designed for that purpose or something ;)

[nicci.livejournal.com]

... damn the labelling and think of it as breakfast roulette!

[vavaverity.livejournal.com]

Or I suppose I could just start wrapping my foods in freezer bags instead, or labelling them.

LOL That's what *I* was going to say! ;)