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billybrobby

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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: What is the world's densest food? |
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I mean physically dense, not nutritionally. |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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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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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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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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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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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 Location: Down by the river
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:14 am Post subject: |
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Don't know, but nutritionally/calorically, I would say nuts. Lots of calories, lots of nutrients. |
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Bigfeet

Joined: 29 May 2008 Location: Grrrrr.....
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:46 am Post subject: |
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Has to be a fruitcake!  |
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petethebrick

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Drew345

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Juregen
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:20 am Post subject: |
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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

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:28 am Post subject: ... |
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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
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:36 am Post subject: |
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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 Location: Canada.
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Jawbreakers, of course. |
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