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What is the world's densest food?
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billybrobby



Joined: 09 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:24 pm    Post subject: What is the world's densest food? Reply with quote

I mean physically dense, not nutritionally.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My mother's brownbread that failed to rise. I'm not sure it would qualify as food though. I took it out back and shot at it with my pellet gun, barely scratched the surface.
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JustJohn



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm suddenly very interested to know the answer to this.

Water is probably up there, actually. No idea what the most dense is though.
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ED209



Joined: 17 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could probably compress sugar or salt until it was really dense (if you consider these foods)
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JustJohn



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I googled it and came up with some sort of berry, but it hardly seems like the official word on the subject.
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aka Dave



Joined: 02 May 2008
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't know, but nutritionally/calorically, I would say nuts. Lots of calories, lots of nutrients.
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Bigfeet



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has to be a fruitcake! Laughing
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petethebrick



Joined: 25 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bigfeet wrote:
Has to be a fruitcake! Laughing

Yeah, like dundee cake maybe! reminds me of this alan partridge bit...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fusl0zPfD44
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Drew345



Joined: 24 May 2005

PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I remember one of those Yahoo Top 10 lists that put the Baskin
Robbins Peanut Butter Cup Shake as the most calories in a drink.
93 grams of fat in one drink!

http://www.baskinrobbins.com/Nutrition/product.aspx?Category=Beverages&id=BV230

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Juregen



Joined: 30 May 2006

PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't Salami the densest food?

By definition, they try to cram as much meat as is possible into a well defined container.
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climber159



Joined: 02 Sep 2007

PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems the food that is physically the most dense would also be calorically the most dense since the space not taken up by air must be taken up by something else. And, water is not particularly dense; there are plenty of foods and other ingestible liquids denser than water.
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Nowhere Man



Joined: 08 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:28 am    Post subject: ... Reply with quote

That intestinal stuff served in some local restaurants.

It's basically chewing gum, but intestinally flavored.

My first director knew I liked meat, so he picked all the intestines out of the floating pool of red sauce and piled them before me to eat.

It was a long dinner. I still wake up in cold sweats thinking about it.
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visitorq



Joined: 11 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

climber159 wrote:
It seems the food that is physically the most dense would also be calorically the most dense since the space not taken up by air must be taken up by something else. And, water is not particularly dense; there are plenty of foods and other ingestible liquids denser than water.

yeah, I was just thinking of corn syrup myself. As for solid food, assuming it had to be something that was actually 'cooked' or prepared (as opposed to just 'edible', like a rock-hard kernel of nutmeg or something) I'm guessing it would be some kind of root vegetable (a baked potato for example). Fresh fruits containing a lot of water like melons or apples are quite heavy. Same goes for meat, though I'm not sure which would denser: a rare steak or beef jerky...
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Temporary



Joined: 13 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll go with Dok.. That stuff sits in your gut like a friggen bar of lead.
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sillywilly



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jawbreakers, of course.
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