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patricksaurus

My lab group had a practice of keeping chocolate on the table near the door. No rules, everyone just brought in something nice and shared it. Guests could have a piece… honor system and all that. It worked great. One day, I’d been working with some really hazardous stuff, one property of which was that it burned if it got on mucous membranes — nose, eyes, mouth. I’d just spent about five hours of very careful, somewhat stressful work with this stuff. I’m stiff, a bit sweaty, and coming down from the adrenaline of handling a true chemical hazard for a prolonged period on an important project with precious samples. I waled into the office and grabbed a piece of very welcome chocolate — the first time my hand had been anywhere near my face in hours — and immediately my mouth started to tingle and then burn. I turned pale, my eyes grew as wide as saucers, and I started rifling through my desk for the MSDS sheet that I prepared that morning. I’m not naming names, but a certain National Medal of Science winner started laughing so hard he’s red in the face and choking on whatever soda he had in front of him. Between laughs and gasps for air, he’s spinning in his desk chair, rocking so hard I think he’s going to tip backwards. He manages to let out, “it’s chili chocolate.” I collapse in my chair, and then start throwing everything that wouldn’t cause serious injury from my desk towards him. Best office I ever worked in.


BadHorsesEvilWhinny

Great story and you tell it well!


TheBackPorchOfMyMind

Bad horse! Bad horse!


Anorion

The Thoroughbred of Sin?


tangomaureen

🎶bad horse, he’s bad 🎶


Sparrowhawk_92

The Evil League of Evil is watching so beware!


captainkenzie

The grade that you receive will be the last, we swear!


borobricks

So make the bad horse gleeful or he’ll make you his mare.


BadHorsesEvilWhinny

You’re saddled up There’s no recourse It’s Hi-Ho Silver Signed, Bad Horse


B1rdi

Haha, did not see that coming


DnkMemeLinkr

Hall of fame comment here


Massive_Region_5377

Chemists are such dicks, I love you so much. As a biologist, I was such a Pollyanna compared to the *absolute fucking savages* in the chemistry department, it was like always being the uncool little bro but with unfettered access to sulphuric acid.


patricksaurus

I know what you mean. Prank wars with chemists are always a losing proposition. It's also not liike we can pull good pranks without doing harm... "nah-nah, someone just swallowed C. diff!" We were a biogeochem group. You got to pick which basic science you wanted to kill you and wait until one of them did. That particular day, I was preparing a medium to mimic the composition of a particular acid mine drainage, where the pH was between 0 and 1, that also had the runoff of an industrial farm using organophosphates and some other nasty shit as pesticides and fertilizers. They found a host of microorganisms living in this liquid hell, and I wanted to see if I could characterize all of their other stress resistances. I couldn't get the organisms to grow individually on any normal medium, nor would they grow on simulated acid mine drainage plate (though I could never get the pH below 2). The authors only agreed to send me 1 mL of the original fluid with microbes, and I had to beg for that, so I was running out of options. Thankfully, if I made simulated acid mine drainage every nasty farming chemical, they'd grow in liquid. It turns out, they were resistant to everything... oxidatiive damage, radiation, hydrostatic pressure, some amount of sodium azide, dessication, salinity, and several antibiotics. They even survived the autoclave cycle for vegetative cells, but the spore cycle killed them. It's a good thing they weren't pathogenic, they would have been a nightmare.


Massive_Region_5377

Holy fuck, were they sporulated or freaky archaea or what?


ExperienceInitial364

material safety data sheet sheet


cdrt

Thank you


blazinazn007

Automatic teller machine machine


ExperienceInitial364

THATS WHAT ATM MEANS???????


nashpotato

Personal Identification Number number


Byting_wolf

Chai tea and naan bread


Zech08

oh sheets.


Clifford_the_big_red

we have to have these at all times for any food grade oil we sell too


Underwater_Karma

When Neil deGrasse Tyson tells this story, he calls you a little bitch


tg-ia

My graduate advisor walks into the lab as I'm locked in thesis-ing like mad on my laptop. She hands me an unmarked bag of chocolates and says I look like I could use some glucose fuel. I proceed to snack away on what tastes like a chocolate covered nut mix. Think nothing of it until I mindlessly bite one in half. Look down at the remaining half to realize these aren't cashews. I half dazed stumble down the hall to her office with said chocolates and hold them up. Between the panic concerned look I must've had-she bursts out laughing and asks if I liked them. I return a stare and she informs me they're chocolate covered grasshoppers! Overcome with relief, as it's not totally horrible. I answer that they're actually pretty good and turn back to the lab hearing her wailing in laughter as I go. I finished the bag later that week.


patricksaurus

haha beggars can't be choosers. I feel ever that pain.


PhitPhil

https://www.usbio.net/promos/salsa


arik_tf

I have absolutely no use for biological reagents, but now that I know they grow their own ingredients for their salsa, I wanna buy something just so I can try it 😂 Raspberry Agave and Pineapple Habanero sound exceptionally good


cigarell0

Ikr imma need OP to review this salsa for us


CrazybyRX

It's has a spicy ammonia umame.


potate12323

I hope it lists all the ingredients by chemical name and mole fraction.


IceColdDump

![gif](giphy|3rdNNPuMX7TYA)


Lovemybee

As someone who struggled through chemistry... yikes!


Parishdise

Well, you can always buy $50 lab grade salt. Relatively cheap for the market/ business you're working with and you can cook with both!


Pork_Chompk

"Lab grade salt" sounds like some sort of chemical weapon. Like they'll think it's just normal salt, so they'll put it on their french fries, not knowing it's actually lab grade salt that is so extra salty that they'll have dry mouth for months!


TheLab420

![gif](giphy|1mSUG1fM4fIu4|downsized)


c4ndycain

buy their salsa, get free biological reagents!


Gonji89

Buy some tryptophan decarboxylase and monoamine oxydase and biosynthesize some DMT. /s in case it’s needed, don’t actually do this.


tiny_birds

Gosh, and that olive and garlic! Never heard of such a salsa.


HuntingForSanity

That was the one that made me want to figure out how to purchase something on their website lol


CommiRhick

Could just buy METH and have the salsa as an added bonus


Teytrum

I work in electroplating and am thinking of ordering something just for the salsa varieties. I don't use biologics either.


MikeTheAmalgamator

They did however lose me at olive salsa. wtf man


nous_nordiques

Stupid hot salsa: "Darwinism is real, enjoy responsibly"


jdog7249

Why can't I just order the salsa. I just want the salsa and don't feel like wasting my money on getting an actual product.


microwavedcheezus

They probably wouldn't be able to handle the demand.


sat0123

All the ingredients say "vine-ripped fresh tomatoes". Is that a typo for "vine-ripened", or are they just really fucking aggressive with it?


MonstercatDavid

That roasted garlic and olive salsa sounds amazing


krigsgaldrr

That was the one I wanna try too 😩


Truly--Unruly

How to: good marketing.


Adventurous-Wash3201

Why did I never get any with my YNB order!!


andsendunits

The best part is the reasonable amount of sodium.


TheDivineRat_

Stupid hot salsa sounds great.


bfishr

Thorlabs still sends snacks with every order, but that looks and feels so much more legit. Random salsa is a move on a level I do not understand.


avoidance_behavior

lol, my boyfriend works for a medical supply company and they send out candy with every order, and apparently it costs a pretty penny to get the CEO's desired specific brand in bulk for some reason. but the guy insists, so they pay thousands a year for little candies nobody really cares about. salsa seems much more fun, tbh


AlmostLucy

There’s a dental supply company that sends candy with orders. Ain’t that some recursive shit.


soulpulp

My dentist is always eating candy. Always. Butterfinger is his favorite. I asked him if that wasn't a bad look, and he said it doesn't matter how much sugar you eat (to your teeth) it matters how long you leave it on there. That man must brush about 12 times a day.


Coders32

Why are you making me want a butterfinger at nearly midnight with no way to get one?


Littlestan

I've ordered from moped and motorcycle supply chains that do this as well. It's the first thing I think of when I open a new box, wondering what flavor I'll get this time.


jugstopper

My childhood dentist in the 1960s always gave us a lolipop.


lizardgal10

I had one (2000s) that gave out fresh cookies. As in, they had one of those Otis Spunklemeyer ovens IN THE OFFICE.


ostrich-party-

I had an orthodontist that had Otis Spunklemeyer when I was younger!


saladmunch2

Alot of the online gun parts shops send some candy and stickers. Its a nice touch.


pewpew_lotsa_boolits

I often say I have a very expensive sticker habit that just happens to come with free gun parts. I’ve also found that if you shamelessly compliment them while also asking for swag, you can get other things like can coozies, branded pocket knives, “tactical” pens that have the high density ends for breaking car window glass, Velcro patches, molle magazine pouches, and even cool hand-drawn artwork. But, yeah, stickers rule!


saladmunch2

I have so many motocross oriented stickers from over the years, those are from the manufacturer vs the vendor though. I may have to try the compliment thing. I spent almost a whole rack for billet transmission parts, and all I got was 1 sticker and a coozie, I would have loved a sweatshirt.


ThoughtfulPenis

Delight the customers.


fawn_take_two

A little while ago I ordered some 20cm debakeys and a couple rat tooth forceps— the little mint they sent really brightened up my day:)


HillarysFloppyChode

The place I order car parts from sends cards for wine subscriptions.


forkedquality

They do! [https://imgur.com/a/iljkUdp](https://imgur.com/a/iljkUdp) (Considering how much I spend there, they'd better!)


Teledildonic

What kind of snack is that? That packaging is hilariously vague.


bouldersandmountains

When I ordered some stuff through them a few years back it was an assortment of snacks like small bags of trailmix. I forget exactly what was in it but it was a fun little surprise.


cityBassTX

Just got one a few weeks ago that had Welch’s fruit snacks (the best), trail mix, and a few bags of PopCorners in crazy flavors I’d never seen before


RychuWiggles

It's miscellaneous snacks like fruit gummies, chex mix, fig newtons, granola bars, rice crispy treats, etc. They change every now and then, but you usually get a handful of snacks. That vague packaging is just their mascot


anthonystank

We periodically get hypodermic needles delivered by specialty pharmacy. They always include a caramel (just one) in the package.


UncleCeiling

Radwell sent me candy with a pressure transducer controller.


Sufficient_Wasabi956

I came here to say the same thing as I munch on my lab snacks


Mand125

I went to a conference once and they had a sign that said they shipped 300,000 pounds of Lab Snacks in a year.


h2ohbaby

I swear USA Bluebook keeps the Tootsie Pop factory in business. They send 4 of them out with each order.


viasavannah

Goulet Pen Company sends out lollipops and stickers with their fountain pens.


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SF2431

Newport?


cityBassTX

Love me some Lab Snacks


filthy_harold

I read the label too quickly and assumed this was some sort of NIST cilantro lime hot salsa reference product and was a little surprised they had such a specific item.


TheApprenticeLife

This reminds me of Dexter Holland, the lead singer of The Offspring. He has a PhD in molecular biology and also started the hot sauce company *Gringo Bandito*, which is actually really good hot sauce.


MobiuS_360

It's legitimately the only hot sauce I ever buy, it's the perfect mix between spicy and tasty. I've bought every flavor and the green and red are the best. I think I've gone through maybe 10 bottles in the past year


Delicatesseract

I’m this way with Marie Sharp’s original flavor, it’s so good. Highly recommended. I’ll try the Gringo Bandito though.


Anxious_Mango_1953

I was not expecting to learn the lead singer of The Offspring has a PhD in molecular biology today, well, *ever*, but here we are.


1HungryDwarf

Fun fact, he came up with the line "you gotta keep 'em separated" on Come Out and Play while he was working in the lab with samples No clue he was making salsa now though lol


Sparrowhawk_92

Brian May (Queen) has a PhD in Astrophysics.


whoyoumei

Sugar, spice and everything nice One day the professor accidentally also added Salsa


FloridianRobot

Nile Red vibes. Ordered chemicals, but they included salsa? Probably made the salsa out of balloon rubber & Lego plastic or something.


FishnAndBowln

Glad I wasn’t the only one that thought this. Nordihydrocapsaicin flashbacks from his hot sauce vid


WebAlarming4759

What if whoever sent them to you is evil and the chemicals are actually in that jar 🤔


pressNjustthen

I can guarantee with 100% certainty there’s chemicals in that jar. But that’s just chemistry, not villainy 😉


nick_oreo

Well have to wait till they post an * /10 for the spiciness to know whether or not any villainy is afoot.


borazine

“OMG F chemicals, am I right, lads?!”


MithandirsGhost

I bet if you had it analyzed you would find it contains a substantial amount of dihydrogen monoxide.


MistaRekt

I bet that salsa is full of dangers Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons. Those are all found in poisons and radioactive waste.


illiterate_charlie

H(ot)2matO


odin_the_wiggler

Cue the entire poison scene from The Princess Bride


underprivlidged

Sounds good. Let us know if you like it. Personally, I love anything with lime. Cilantro is decent too.


-lukeworldwalker-

I’d trust a chemical company to get the ingredients right way more than Walmart


Worried_Archer_8821

That both came from the same supplier should raise some flags😳


Mindful-O-Melancholy

You’d be surprised how much food is made by chemical companies, it became pretty common during WW1, WW2 and then stuck around afterwards. A lot of them back in the day got military contracts to create easy/ready to eat, food to sustain soldiers in battle and later became the military rations we have now that even come with flameless ration heaters you just add a little water to.


NotAPreppie

I mean, cooking is just chemistry for hungry people.


Jimnyneutron91129

Everything physical is or was just chemistry.


yaboiiiuhhhh

Or physics But thats the basis of chemistry


Dominus-Temporis

https://xkcd.com/435/


yaboiiiuhhhh

Principia de mathmatica


Numerous-Stranger-81

Zyklon B was also chemistry for hungry people.


VedjaGaems

I did a project for pharmaceutical company and they gave us honey. They were environmentally conscious and kept beehives to help pollinate the local flora on their site. Don't know if they sold it, but it was good honey.


NotRelevantQuestion

Just make sure you lean the flameless ration heaters on a rock or something.


jonnyredshorts

I know the guy that made that art and wording.


Mindful-O-Melancholy

Nice! 👍


Numerous-Stranger-81

It's cute you thing a chemical company would have less strict safety standards than your local Taco Bell.


Wide_Environment3107

Do you know why? Because people like to say *salsa*...


NotAPreppie

As a r/LabRat, I wish to own a jar of this salsa.


iprocrastina

"Made with real experiments!"


eatthecheesefries

I think this is how you get superpowers.


voretaq7

. . . . . . . I need some. We’ll serve chips and salsa alongside the [NIST Standard Reference Peanut Butter](https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=2387&cclcl=en_US) & jelly sandwiches!


elswampthing7

When i worked in a brewery, the grain supplier would send candy bars tucked between grain sacks to encourage brewers to unload pallets. 1/2 corporate brain fuck 1/2 employee pizza party. 


PeteRock24

This is obviously a r/LostRedditors thing. The label clearly indicates this should be in r/hotlyinteresting


Ghost_Hunter_13

https://www.usbio.net/promos/salsa


dshookowsky

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/823055-what-are-the-three-most-important-rules-of-the-chemist


PoopSlinger23

We have vendors that give us hot sauce and stuff all of the time. I’d rather this than another useless keychain or something.


cactuscoleslaw

Never underestimate the power of smart people to do hilarious pointless things with their knowledge


EpicTedTalk

Never thought I'd be intrigued by a jar of salsa, but here we are. It's both extremely suspicious and potentially excellent.


BilkySup

![gif](giphy|Rs05vfoiXpIOc|downsized)


OldeFortran77

Did the chemicals come in the exact same type of jar as the salsa?


HammerTh_1701

Sigma Aldrich uses tin cans as outer packaging for their chemicals. The inner packaging is the usual brown glass bottles and they put a polyurethane packing foam and sometimes a spill binder in between.


Mousse-Full

Their marketing department missed a home run when they didn't name it ' Soilent Green'.


FuckThisShizzle

Research chemicals can give you the munchies too.


towiwakka

The lab chemicals you ordered included cilantro, right?


pumpkinspicenation

Aw they changed the label! The jar I got had a label that mimicked a lab reagent. I kept the jar.


kenziep44

If it's anything like Gale's coffee, I'd say you're in for a treat


OtherwiseExternal777

Well, cilantro tastes like chemicals.


MFCEO_Kenny_Powers

Eat it


propagandhi1

Now you can perform your double dip test.


Traditional_Key_763

I got a bag of M&M bags once, put it on a table at work with a hand drawn "Free Candy" sign. took people a day to start taking them.


besee2000

When you have a side hustle?


waterturtle28

Nope, wouldn’t eat that


rkpjr

So is it good?


veryfynnyname

This is how the zombie apocalypse starts lol


Weekly_Example_4770

Woah


PotatoAvenger

Amazon?


diamonds106

Don’t eat this


pivazena

We used to order just enough reagents from thermo to get the stuffed animals and an iPod nano


Chief-Sqwuid

I wouldnt trust it 😂


KenaDra

Is it really *mildly* interesting?


phoenixxl

I hope it came with a sheet you need to fill in describing the effects it had after you ate it.


Terrible_Shake_4948

# NO THANK YOU ![gif](giphy|STfLOU6iRBRunMciZv)


pertnear

Wow that’s really cool! /r/fuckcilantro tho


cracquelature

That bottle of salsa cost $8900


Szygani

That is _mild_ly interesting indeed. That's a mild salsa everybody at the table can enjoy


Sky_the_Dragon

This is the opposite of a problem


donmreddit

Carefully read the label …”this product made on same machines as … bio-lab chemicals.” Could be a Bad sign.


Numerous-Stranger-81

Only if you're the type of ignorant person who thinks chemicals are inherently bad.


nim_opet

“And if you order 4 bars of plutonium, we’ll throw in some salsa in there for free! (Best enjoyed in dark for full effect)! “


TheRoscoeVine

Watch out, it says poison right on it: “cilantro”.


PrestonTX

US Biologicals is a chinese products company. Better check the ingredients for that chip dip.


tionong

We order shower caps to cover stuff at work and they send us ramen and giant mouse pads with cosmetic adds on it.


Outrageous_Vanilla35

Ai ai aiii!!!


flacidhock

It’s good for keeping away mosquitoes and women


kirksucks

Side hustle. Lol


ImpliedHorizon

Soap salsa


adamosity1

I once received free toothpaste from the post office in South Korea after mailing several boxes.


LimpTeacher0

Cooking is chemistry


Tnasty1128

I wouldnt be mad lol


sactomkiii

r/spicy needs to get on this


pandascuriosity

The place we order custom stickers from always includes a bottle of hot sauce in our orders


Snarky_McSnarkleton

Now with Extreme Toxic Waste!


hildissent

I totally trust surprise salsa from a biology lab.


flapper_mcflapsnack

Patient zero of the zombie apocalypse is gonna be the lab tech who eats biological material thinking it was salsa. Great.


elpajaroquemamais

The best hot sauce I have is from a sticker company.


tacotruck5

Stickermule sends hot sauce


dustygultch

r/mildlysalsa


hpspiker

$100 on stickermule.com will get you some stickers and hot sauce


CitizenKing1001

Whats the bright neon green bit inside the jar?


Geno_Warlord

I bet it tastes like soap even if you don’t have the gene just to troll you.


Pork_Chompk

**JESSE! IT'S TIME TO COOK!**


jodupher

Well, I mean Sweetwater sends out candy with every order so I guess that's where we're at as far as consumer culture goes.


ThayerRex

Don’t think I’d dip a chip


GreatDune

Wow show off


torch9t9

Bonus


trshtehdsh

That's amazing.


verfemen

I wonder what r/salsasnobs would think of this


Beginningenz

Strange it's red when the main ingredients in the title are green


IHeartRasslin

South Bronx Paradise!


MonsterMashGrrrrr

They’re just keeping things spicy


Ishidan01

Guys. You do this with [yogurt.](https://youtu.be/7JVyGo3lQBU?si=JY4rpuTXeUV3OWKc)


anotherpredditor

The cake is a lie.


PomPomGrenade

I once ordered liquid gold for hard plating. A smaller can came with it, same label. Somewhere in the small print it said that it was actually iced coffee. I am pretty sure that making food look like industrial chemicals is a no-no.


ChalkSpoon

i thought that said “cilantro lime NOT salsa” and read the post title and was about to comment “huh it clearly says it’s not salsa right there”


No_Butterscotch_7865

This is not a salsa, this is a dissolving creme!


rrickitickitavi

OK, what's the cheapest thing I can order to get a bottle of that?


toxicspocksyndrome

![gif](giphy|3ornka9rAaKRA2Rkac)


Kevroeques

**Caution:** This salsa processed in a plant that also processes carbolic acid. And peanuts


Murky-Plastic6706

Is it organic?