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Table of Condiments

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If you're anything like me, you can open your fridge and immediately find several condiments you haven't used in months... maybe even years. I know we have a bottle of soy sauce lurking in ours that's probably from, oh, 2007. According to the Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad, that Kikkoman needs to be tossed immediately. Cheez Wiz, however, has an indefinite shelf life. Scary. If you're wondering about some of your condiments, check it out - it has a total of 75, so the odds are pretty good that you'll find your answer.

http://backtable.org/~blade/fnord/condiments.html

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Terrific post Stacy. I don't know if all the items were ones kept in the fridge. I never keep peanut butter there. Same for grated Parmesan cheese until I read on the container it would taste better if kept there. Being set in my ways I go by the simple rule if it doesn't have any fuzzy stuff growing on top it's okay to eat. GGG Bout only time that happens is on chip dip. A sub rule of mine is canned goods and things in the freezer will out last me. But I did toss a large bag of unopened cooked shrimp last night that had been there for ages. Almost brought a tear to my eye. GG

Speaking of things going bad. Have any oldsters noticed how milk doesn't curdle nearly like it used to? That is a GOOD thing. Nothing worse than lumpy milk. gggg

They aren't condiments but potato chips usually last forever. They go stale but I imagine when something is coated in salt it lasts a long time.

Oh yeah, I really enjoyed all the comments. We have some smart people here!

Brian, I used to always use the Kraft Parmesan until I got a container of their Parmesan & Romano by mistake. I loved it and now it's what I always get. I highly recommend you give it a try.
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This is not really accurate at all, Honey is actually the only food that never spoils, so the fact that it is on the list makes the whole list suspect. Now Vegemite, whilst the rest of the world hates it is the king of spreads(esp with cheese) but it lasts longer than 2 months, or the 750Gm jar I have in the pantry would be gone months ago, ditto the peanut butter, so basically the validity of this whole list is being called into question.
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The story behind the name is a tad creepy:

"It is mostly known in the folk culture as kis gömböc, a round creature in the loft that remained from a killed pig, which swallows everyone one after the other who goes to see what happened to the previous ones"
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Or what about Daruma Dolls, a centuries-old Chinese toy that rights itself no matter how you tilt it? In fact its the reference for a popular Chinese proverb about picking yourself up after a fall (metaphorically). Just doesn't seem very impressive, unless I'm missing something here.
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Yeah, what about an egg? I was thinking the same thing. A thing shaped like an egg also rights itself up, no complicated math, no mail-order needed...
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An egg doesn't right itself - it doesn't always end up resting on the same point no matter what orientation it starts in. You can see this yourself. Put an egg on the counter. Wait until it stops moving. Pick it up and mark the point it was resting on. Put it back down on another point. It won't end up resting on the same point, unless it has an air bubble that isn't along the axis of symmetry, in which case the object's density makes it self righting - which is what the challenge stated: "three-dimensional thingy that purely by dint of its /geometry/ had only one possible way to balance upright."
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The point is that Weebles and Daruma Dolls rely on *varying density* to accomplish the feat. They have a center of gravity that is very low on account of a weighted or hollowed out section. This widget does it WITHOUT that -- it's got uniform density and the action is accomplished purely through external geometry.

I can't see how by any stretch of the imagination an egg rights itself -- the egg just rolls over on its side and can from that point roll around all over the place. If you plotted the locus of possible points the egg could rest on, you'd get a circle, not a single point.
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A sphere would right itself, wouldn't it? You can't exactly determine which point is the top and which is the bottom. Well, you could, but it would be open to interpretation...
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