Posted on 07/28/2017 3:44:37 PM PDT by SMGFan
When celebrating birthdays, blowing out a cake full of candles and singing a public domain song is a time-honored tradition. Yet has it ever occurred to you that this ritual means that the birthday celebrant is just blasting spit over the candles and the top layer of the cake? Well, now it has.
The Journal of Food Research in Canada recently published a study, which we learned about from The Atlantic, that will make every celebration that you’re part of seem just a little more gross. Logically, some saliva must end up on cakes when you blow out candles, but the daughter of Paul Dawson, a professor at Clemson University, wondered how much more.
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You didn’t know that? Needed a study to tell you? And when you talk a cloud of spit surrounds the mouth. We’re not all dead yet so it doesn’t matter.
I just hope that Gottfried wasn't telling his version of "The Aristocrats" joke while he was in the room.
Me either.
I make everybody lean in close and then I blow them out with cigarette smoke.
How have we ever survived?
Well, duh. They just now figuring that out?
Better than what Grandpa used to put out his candles. LOL!
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