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Nitrogen cocktail iced after woman is hospitalized in Miami
Toronto Sun ^ | May 16, 2014 | ZACHARY FAGENSON, REUTERS

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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To: rickmichaels

What kind of farging idiot would drink something like that?


41 posted on 05/16/2014 9:38:01 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: ClearBlueSky
No sympathy from me. That`s naked singularity stupid and stupid SHOULD hurt,
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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.

42 posted on 05/16/2014 9:38:22 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

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.


43 posted on 05/16/2014 9:39:37 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: dsc
What kind of farging idiot would drink something like that?

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.

44 posted on 05/16/2014 10:31:05 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: posterchild
“WTF? Doesn’t anyone study thermodynamics anymore?”...

That is no longer covered due to the “new math” taking precedence.

45 posted on 05/17/2014 4:09:43 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: cripplecreek
The Muriatic acid colonic is out now too?

I hear the farts can be corrosive to ironwork...

46 posted on 05/17/2014 4:58:09 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: rickmichaels

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.


47 posted on 05/17/2014 5:49:14 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: rickmichaels

Hot damn! Well sort of.....


48 posted on 05/17/2014 10:42:16 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
I really believe people are more stupid than they’ve ever been, in the entire history of the world.

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.

49 posted on 05/17/2014 2:41:51 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Old Yeller
Did she have a brain freeze?

That occurred before she ordered the drink.

50 posted on 05/17/2014 2:45:33 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: posterchild

thermodynamics of fluids........ how far does liquid nitrogen travel before freezing the esophageal track?


51 posted on 05/17/2014 2:49:05 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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52 posted on 05/17/2014 2:49:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: cloudmountain
Furthermore, as it evaporates liquid nitrogen releases a large volume of gas, which means it can burst the stomach if swallowed in a sufficiently large amount.

The ratio is a bit over 800 to 1.

53 posted on 05/17/2014 2:50:24 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim
The ratio is a bit over 800 to 1.

"Yeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

54 posted on 05/17/2014 3:16:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Furthermore, as it evaporates liquid nitrogen releases a large volume of gas, which means it can burst the stomach if swallowed in a sufficiently large amount.
The ratio is a bit over 800 to 1.

That wasn't my quote but thanks for the information anyway.

55 posted on 05/18/2014 6:09:27 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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