Chocolate galaxy

[starsurfer]

If you could eat a chocolate representation of a galaxy, which one would it be and why?

I would love to eat a large chocolate version of the LMC with maybe all the different nebulae being made with melted white chocolate on top and the various star clusters could be nutty flakes!

[Nitpicker]

Sheesh, what a contentious topic. There are already two different versions of the Milky Way chocolate bar on the market:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_(chocolate_bar)

... although that is probably fair enough, no one really knows what the Milky Way looks like from the outside, exactly.

[Beyond]

Nitpicker, your link didn't have anything to say about a Milky Way chocolate bar.
But as you said, it comes in two versions... milk and dark chocolate.

I suppose the dark chocolate one is the 'dark matter' version

[geckzilla]

If you took a few seconds to read the very first line on those pages you'd find that it says "Did you mean: Milky Way (chocolate bar)"

This will continue to happen anytime someone pastes a link that isn't urlencoded which ends in a parenthesis.


There are some sparkly frostings I'm dubious about eating (if it's sparkly going in, is it sparkly coming out?) that would make a good galaxy-inspired treat swirled on top of a cupcake. I can't say that I would discriminate against any single galaxy if it were made of chocolate. I've thought about creating a cake with a galaxy inspired design on the top. You could do a dark chocolate frosting mixed with white chocolate to create some gradients and swirls with and then dot round sprinkles of various sizes to represent globular clusters or bright individual stars.

[Nitpicker]

Oops, I often forget the URL tags ... now fixed. An important link about chocolate bars too!

[neufer]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[Ann]

Well, there are few elliptical galaxies I would eat. They are all made of slightly yellow-white chocolate. Boring. (Except for those fantastic elliptical shell galaxies.) But as for the ordinary elliptical stuff, well, look at that too-filling ESO 325-G004 - there's just too much vanilla there! Ah, but look at that delightful little spiral galaxy "below" it! Look at those graceful, sweeping arms, and look at those clusters! Look at that intensely blue-green little jewel of an emission nebula inside it - bet that would taste just amazing to eat!

Oh, there are so many spiral galactic tidbits that I would like to sink my teeth into! Look at NGC 4631 - isn't it good enough to be served up at a three-star Michelin restaurant? Oh, that symphony of blue, pink and yellow, those billowing shapes and glittering clusters - how could it be yummier?

Oh, but there are so many mouth-watering galactic tidbits! What about M106? What about NGC 772? What about NGC 1309? What about M82? What about M83? What about M61? What about NGC 922? What about Arp 256? What about Arp 273? What about tiny little NGC 6822 and its bubbles? And what about our own galaxy, the Milky Way?

Imagine getting a whole box of chocolate galaxies. I would sure eat until I went POOOF!!!

Ann

[starsurfer]

Well, there are few elliptical galaxies I would eat. They are all made of slightly yellow-white chocolate. Boring. (Except for those fantastic elliptical shell galaxies.) But as for the ordinary elliptical stuff, well, look at that too-filling ESO 325-G004 - there's just too much vanilla there! Ah, but look at that delightful little spiral galaxy "below" it! Look at those graceful, sweeping arms, and look at those clusters! Look at that intensely blue-green little jewel of an emission nebula inside it - bet that would taste just amazing to eat!

Oh, there are so many spiral galactic tidbits that I would like to sink my teeth into! Look at NGC 4631 - isn't it good enough to be served up at a three-star Michelin restaurant? Oh, that symphony of blue, pink and yellow, those billowing shapes and glittering clusters - how could it be yummier?

Oh, but there are so many mouth-watering galactic tidbits! What about M106? What about NGC 772? What about NGC 1309? What about M82? What about M83? What about M61? What about NGC 922? What about Arp 256? What about Arp 273? What about tiny little NGC 6822 and its bubbles? And what about our own galaxy, the Milky Way?

Imagine getting a whole box of chocolate galaxies. I would sure eat until I went POOOF!!!

Ann

Whatever you have to say always elicits a great feeling of happiness but this one is just off the charts! I can't stop laughing, I almost fell out of my chair. I knew I'd get the desired response from you!

A chocolate version of NGC 6822 with the bubbles made out of either Turkish Delight or strawberry creme fondant would be heavenly (pun intended)!

What about NGC 5394? What about M33? So many nebulae, they could be carved out of dry fruit segments and the clusters could be made out of edible sparkles! Similar to this creation by a Swedish chocolate person thingy. Or maybe a M33 chocolate could have an outer crispy shell with a pistachio praline centre!

Ann, me and you could make beautiful chocolate galaxies together! Maybe our company could be called Schaffhäuser to sound slightly mysterious?

[Ann]

NGC 5394 is a favorite of mine too!

So you and I should make chocolate galaxies together - well, why not? Although it's hard to beat the real thing. Maybe we should make some coffee to go with the galaxies too - what about this brand?

Schaffhäuser, hmm? It doesn't ring a bell, I'm afraid.

Ann

[Chris Peterson]

If you could eat a chocolate representation of a galaxy, which one would it be and why?

I would love to eat a large chocolate version of the LMC with maybe all the different nebulae being made with melted white chocolate on top and the various star clusters could be nutty flakes! :D

I don't much care for chocolate, but galaxies often make me think of coffee with Bailey's swirling in it...

[Beyond]

If you could eat a chocolate representation of a galaxy, which one would it be and why?

I would love to eat a large chocolate version of the LMC with maybe all the different nebulae being made with melted white chocolate on top and the various star clusters could be nutty flakes!

I don't much care for chocolate, but galaxies often make me think of coffee with Bailey's swirling in it...

I don't know what "Bailey's" is, and I'm not sure if I've had coffee this decade or not. But have you ever tried white chocolate It tastes different and has the added advantage (in your case) that if you get any on you and it melts from body heat, the white spot will just blend in.

[geckzilla]

Don't know what Bailey's is, missed most of Monty Python... how did you get them to run that internet cable into the cave you live in, Beyond?

[Beyond]

Don't know what Bailey's is, missed most of Monty Python... how did you get them to run that internet cable into the cave you live in, Beyond?

As Burt Reynolds once said to Sally Field in one of them dar Smokey and the Bandit films... the part of the country you come from, determines just how dumb you really are about things. Or words to that effect, it's been a long time.
Oh, the cable company will run a line just about anywhere. All it takes is some of that green rectangular paper with pictures of dead people on it. But apparently it doesn't last very long, as they keep wanting more pictures every month. So i just keep printing more to keep them satisfied.

[starsurfer]

NGC 5394 is a favorite of mine too!

So you and I should make chocolate galaxies together - well, why not? Although it's hard to beat the real thing. Maybe we should make some coffee to go with the galaxies too - what about this brand?

Schaffhäuser, hmm? It doesn't ring a bell, I'm afraid.

Ann

I don't drink coffee!

Also of course the name doesn't ring a bell, you wouldn't use an old name for a new company? At least it sounds mysterious!

[kiaraptruger]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Where can I get these????

[BMAONE23]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Where can I get these????

The voice sounds alot like Claudia Black(Farscape & Stargate SG1 among 52 credits). If it is her voice then they are likely available Down Under at least.

[Nitpicker]

It may be Claudia Black, but it sounds like a British ad to me. I've never seen these yummy looking things in Oz, but they may be here. A number of "traditional" chocolate bars have been re-invented as ice-cream confections in recent years. Good times.

[geckzilla]

It's sold in the UK. I think anyone not from there is going to have to settle for some local hot cocoa mix and marshmallows.

[neufer]

<<Galaxy Minstrels, previously known simply as Minstrels, are milk chocolate buttons with a hard glazed shell sold in several countries including the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Kenya, Cyprus, France, Malta, Australia, and Spain. In line with Mars' re-branding, Minstrels were brought under the Galaxy brand and are now sold as "Galaxy Minstrels", referring to the use of Galaxy chocolate in them. An advertising campaign was accompanied by a new slogan: "Sophisticated sharing". One advertisement featured two women, consuming Minstrels, ostensibly in an upmarket theatre, commenting knowledgeably on their seats and the theatre acoustics, only to be revealed as viewers of a male strip act.>>

.

[b][color=#0000FF]Galaxy (i.e., Mars) Minstrels[/color][/b]

---

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[b][color=#0000FF]Screenshot from Steve Squyres presentation celebrating 10 years of the Mars Rovers. A rock suddenly appeared where there was none 12 sols earlier. [/color][/b]

---

The Rock that Appeared Out of Nowhere on Mars
by Nancy Atkinson on January 17, 2014

<<During last night’s celebration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of ten years of the Mars Exploration Rovers, mission principal investigator Steve Squyres shared several stories about the exploration and discoveries made by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity since they landed on Mars in 2004. An intriguing recent mystery is a strange rock that suddenly appeared in photos from the Opportunity rover in a spot where photos taken just 12 sols earlier showed no rock. “One of the things I like to say is that Mars keeps throwing new things at us,” Squyres deadpanned. Squyres described the rock as “white around the outside, in the middle there’s low spot that is dark red. It looks like a jelly donut,” he said. “And it appeared. It just plain appeared and we haven’t driven over that spot.” They’ve named it “Pinnacle Island,” and the team is contemplating a few ideas of why the rock mysteriously showed up. “One theory is that we somehow flicked it with a wheel,” Squyres said. “We had driven a meter or two away from here and somehow maybe one of the wheels managed spit it out of the ground. That’s the more likely theory.”>>

[Ann]

That Mars thing looks like white chocolate.

Gimme the milk or the dark stuff!!!



Ann

[BMAONE23]

<<Galaxy Minstrels, previously known simply as Minstrels, are milk chocolate buttons with a hard glazed shell sold in several countries including the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Kenya, Cyprus, France, Malta, Australia, and Spain. In line with Mars' re-branding, Minstrels were brought under the Galaxy brand and are now sold as "Galaxy Minstrels", referring to the use of Galaxy chocolate in them. An advertising campaign was accompanied by a new slogan: "Sophisticated sharing". One advertisement featured two women, consuming Minstrels, ostensibly in an upmarket theatre, commenting knowledgeably on their seats and the theatre acoustics, only to be revealed as viewers of a male strip act.>>

.

[b][color=#0000FF]Galaxy (i.e., Mars) Minstrels[/color][/b]

---

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[b][color=#0000FF]Screenshot from Steve Squyres presentation celebrating 10 years of the Mars Rovers. A rock suddenly appeared where there was none 12 sols earlier. [/color][/b]

---

The Rock that Appeared Out of Nowhere on Mars
by Nancy Atkinson on January 17, 2014

<<During last night’s celebration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of ten years of the Mars Exploration Rovers, mission principal investigator Steve Squyres shared several stories about the exploration and discoveries made by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity since they landed on Mars in 2004. An intriguing recent mystery is a strange rock that suddenly appeared in photos from the Opportunity rover in a spot where photos taken just 12 sols earlier showed no rock. “One of the things I like to say is that Mars keeps throwing new things at us,” Squyres deadpanned. Squyres described the rock as “white around the outside, in the middle there’s low spot that is dark red. It looks like a jelly donut,” he said. “And it appeared. It just plain appeared and we haven’t driven over that spot.” They’ve named it “Pinnacle Island,” and the team is contemplating a few ideas of why the rock mysteriously showed up. “One theory is that we somehow flicked it with a wheel,” Squyres said. “We had driven a meter or two away from here and somehow maybe one of the wheels managed spit it out of the ground. That’s the more likely theory.”>>

The Daily Mail has an article on it too
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ffled.html So apparently it is Opportunity on day 3540 but the image 1/2 way down the page is an image of Curiosity with the caption

Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 in what was to be a three-month mission. 10 years later, and it is still active on the red planet
Here is a good view of the rock's relative position from the Opportunity Archive

Click to view full size image

And a B/W close-up comparison

Click to view full size image