Posted on 05/16/2014 7:08:22 PM PDT by rickmichaels
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A trendy South Beach restaurant has pulled liquid nitrogen cocktails off its menu after a woman was served a drink with too much of the sub-zero liquid and was rushed to the hospital with a burned esophagus.
Luxury "cryogenic cocktails" have become popular, with bartenders using small amounts of liquid nitrogen to create smoking drinks. The liquid can also instantly freeze everything from ice cream to fruit, which then easily shatters into glass-like shards.
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What kind of farging idiot would drink something like that?
Ditto.
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There is an ice cream store here, called Smitten, which uses the liquid nitrogen to keep their ice cream REAL cold.
I called them just a couple of hours ago and had explained to me the dangers of eating the stuff.
We did several interesting things with the liquid oxygen...
We soaked a cigarette in it, then with the cigarette in a petre dish we lighted it...puff, it was gone!
We heated a carbon rod (one for carbon arc lights in the old time 35 mm movie projectors) in a meeker burner to where it was glowing, then put the tip into a beaker of liquid oxygen...it burned every bit as bright as it would have in the projector.
Someone who assumed that an exotic drink served in a public restaurant would be safe for human consumption. The real idiots are the people who served it to her.
That is no longer covered due to the “new math” taking precedence.
I hear the farts can be corrosive to ironwork...
I really believe people are more stupid than they’ve ever been, in the entire history of the world.
Illiterate 10th century peasants would drop their jaws in mind-boggled amazement at such insanity.
Hot damn! Well sort of.....
Think about this. Several thousand years ago (at the least) someone designed and constructed the Great Pyramid. It has stood there ever since. Nothing we build will last that long, and we don't know how they built it. We could not build it now, using the tools that we know they had.
We have created so many 'conveniences' that most of the public cannot survive with them. Many people are smart. But usually it is focused in one area.
We aren't as 'smart' as our ancient ancestors because we don't have to be smart to survive anymore.
That occurred before she ordered the drink.
thermodynamics of fluids........ how far does liquid nitrogen travel before freezing the esophageal track?
The ratio is a bit over 800 to 1.
"Yeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." 
That wasn't my quote but thanks for the information anyway.
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