July 21, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Texas is where we take hot seriously. I’m sure you’ve heard that Dallas reached 110 today, but it’s really gonna get hot tomorrow.
I told my son we bought some steaks today and if he would come over and grill them tomorrow, he could have one. “Oh, cool,” he replied, “I won’t even have to light the grill.”
But that ain’t nothing.
Wanna see tortilla chips spontaneously combust?
Gotta come to Texas for that.
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I tell you, those jalapeno, sour cream, and lithium chips are just killer.
1I luv yew too.
We will yet save TX, US, and the planet.
2NYC, not Texas, but:
3You know it’s hot when your electric bill matches your rent, and
One summer, Fiorello LaGuardia used the steps of City Hall to fry an egg.
But…but…but… Global warming is a myth, right? /s
4Nothing says Texas like spontaneously combusting tortilla chips.
5Unless armadillos were somehow involved.
Damn straight.
Sorry but, anyone have more specifics on how those chips can autocombust? I mean, as a nerd, combustion and tortilla chips…
6Had to be that tongue-singeing Texas hot sauce they added to the recipe. Next time pack in dry ice and send to Mar a Lago.
7@Old Fart: it’s called spontaneous combustion; a combination of high carbon and an enclosed space which results in anaerobic heating and then to the point of fire when air reaches it.
It happens on a smaller scale in a compost heap, and I’ve seen it happen on gardening trucks which have piles of chipped vegetation within the truck.
8@ Old Fart: I expect this was due, not to the new Ghost Pepper Chip recipe, but to excess oil in an enclosed, heated space. Here’s an article on spontaneous combustion of oily rags – probably a similar mechanism:
Oily tortilla chips, dumpster left in the sun…
9Here in Arizona 110% is called a cool day. [Sissy’s]
10Wow, I thought it was hot here in New England. When I hear about heat and fires, tornados and mud slides, I say” i love “New England”. We have snow ( sometimes) but if you remember to close the windows it never get inside the house, or takes away your house. I do no know how you guys can take that heat! Our hurricanes are little too, not like the old days I hear myself saying…
11@rastybob: Try that 110° with 40+% humidity.
12There’s a cable show called “ Hack My Life”. One of the first hacks they ever showed was using a bag of tortilla chips to start the charcoal in a grill. Not spontaneous combustion, but all that pure, dry carbohydrate produces a nice hot flame. And no nasty fumes or toxic residues like liquid charcoal starter.
I imagine that potato chips would work as well or better, since they’re also coated with oil.
13A comic started his act at a local DFW improv club the other night with this line.
“I am not from around here but it was 109 degrees here today. Just what the he*l did you people do to piss Jesus off?”
14Rasty: same here in New Mexico. “But it’s a dry heat”
15Yeah, like a kiln.
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