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.

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[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.