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Date Posted: 00:17:13 11/17/11 Thu
Author: BB
Subject: Dry and wrinkly

I just had one of those daft conversations that leaves you flummoxed (lovely word). What is the difference between raisins, currants and sultanas?

An internet search suggests that currants and sultanas are types of raisin. All made from grapes, apparently. So if I drew a Venn diagram a big circle would represent the world of raisins, and currants and sultanas would be smaller circles (sub-sets) inside the big circle. If the smaller circles overlapped then there would be a sub-sub-set of dried grape that would be simultaneously a raisin, a currant and a sultana. Does such a thing exist? This is almost as important as the controversial dual identity of the electron as a wave and a particle that Einstein and others debated. Bit of a bugger really since nobody gives a fig about fruit physics.

(The latest contrived and pathetic science joke brought to you by the Blether Bar boffins. Those elderly former science teachers, saturated with alcohol and scribbling mathematical obscenities on blackboards in the cellar. God bless them. If we don't give them shelter, who will?)

I invite the Blether Bar community to share stories of their science teachers.

BB

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