Fashionable abiogenesis

I used to live on this stuff in the good ol' days.

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Now you can get it on a t-shirt through the University of Texas at Austin School of Biological Sciences. Although, you know, "Texas flavor" does sound like it's setting up the punchline for a joke.

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Eating primordial soup? Oh what utter sacrilege! You could be stopping a whole new tree of evolution from growing!

By Ross Nixon (not verified) on 16 Nov 2007 #permalink

If you have some spare agar there is no point in wasting it. Add a little kiwi fruit, chill it in the fridge, delicious. However, avoiding confusion between fresh unused agar and agar that has had someone's sputum smeared on it is rather important.

After reading the list of ingredients on the back, I'm struck by how little attention the scientific community has paid to the role of barbecue flavor in abiogenesis. This could be a revolution in the making.

All Texans started out as slime. Is that what you are saying?

By JohnnieCanuck, FCD (not verified) on 17 Nov 2007 #permalink

"T-sip flavor"...still this Aggie finds it pretty clever.
Probably does have a hint of tea in it. It also seems to have a hint of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in it, too. Ramen!

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I think the soup needs a bit of flavoring,though. I'm partial to the flavor imparted by the chaos of ID - to the point where I sometimes binge-feed on the critters. The down side, is, or course, all those empty calories.