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ddvmor


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Here's something I think we can all get behind. Especially Shaz:

Project to reveal choc's DNA codeThe chocolate company Mars has announced that it is to decode the genetic structure of the cacao tree.

The research project, which is to be done in collaboration with the US Department of Agriculture and IT firm IBM, aims to improve cocoa production.

Scientists hope the Chocolate Genome Project can assist breeding programmes.

Understanding the tree's DNA could make crop production more resistant to pests, diseases, and water shortages that may come from a warming climate.
I wonder if I can persuade someone to research the genome of the Jammie Dodger...

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sha76jam


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Hmmmm. That's all well & good, & indeed quite interesting, but Mars don't exactly use the best type of cacao tree. Wonder if they'll do some comparisons against better tasting, but harder to grow varieties?

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Maybe you should do some of your own testing...

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Mapping DNA is such a chore though, especially when you could be eating it!

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Perhaps there's some way to map it by taste. Perhaps you should start by runny a study into whether it can be mapped by taste. It could basically consist of you eating a lot of chocolate and then writing a short paper.

As a bonus, because it's part of a scientific study, the calories don't count.

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Are you saying Shazza needs to watch the calories?

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I am not. I've never seen her so I have no idea whether she needs to. But as she's a girl, I'm making the assumption that she will anyway!

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There's calories in chocolate?!! Oh.

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ddvmor wrote:

I am not. I've never seen her so I have no idea whether she needs to. But as she's a girl, I'm making the assumption that she will anyway!



Sounded like you might have been - I wish you could be more tolernt and and inclusive wink.gif



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sha76jam wrote:

There's calories in chocolate?!! Oh.



Only in civilian chocolate. Science chocolate is calorie free!

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So, as I always carefully assess the data provided on any chocolate before I purchase it & will only eat that which falls within certain constraints, does that make it scientific?

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If you wear a white coat -

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That would work? Please excuse me, I'm off to make my fortune, promoting "The White Coat Diet".

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ddvmor wrote:
Only in civilian chocolate. Science chocolate is calorie free!

 



 I knew I should have paid more attention in science class!



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sha76jam wrote:

That would work? Please excuse me, I'm off to make my fortune, promoting "The White Coat Diet".



I'll want 80% because I own the concept - I posted it on a forum somewhere....



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Tough.

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sha76jam wrote:

Tough.



That is SO aggressive - you've gotten (an Americanism I think) very aggressive you know? you're quite scarey now...



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Understandable when there is chocolate on the line.

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It's on a line? Is it a special scientifically measuarble line?

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How thick does a chocolate line have to be before it becomes...erm...a chocolate log?

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Dunno. We probably need another scientific study to work it out!

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JonnyStead wrote:

That is SO aggressive - you've gotten (an Americanism I think) very aggressive you know? you're quite scarey now...


And that's just one of the things I like about her...wink...Ben



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