h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I aspire to being a high class gal, here, Dr T

Not an high class gal?

Point taken!

B

Ben, seeing as this entry has largely been amalgamated into A845930, does it still have a place in PR? Can you take it out please?

B

It appears that this is a second major thread on the topic that I missed. Still it bears mentioning here:

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Mayo:

It's still a bizarre enough concoction that its appearance could have meaning.

Perhaps we have looked at it all wrong? The production of mayo is certainly not intuitive, and absBen was correct that it was not an evolutionary step from some other culinary product.

Perhaps, given time travel, Occam's Razor gives us a clue? Perhaps the simplest answer is that concoction that we have come to refer to as mayonaisse is the result of a complex computer program that could predict the final product and then reverse engineer the solution as to its production. This would probably take the form of a more complex version of the Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser.

Imagine some future person, low in weight and cholesterol, needing additional acids in their stomache and roughage in their diet, goes up to a 'Lithe & Portly Lunchomatic Salad Maker' that scans their anatomy, etc., etc., and invariably delivers a salad topped with a substance that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Italian Dressing?
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