“The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.”
Art Buchwald (1925–2007) journalist, humorist, United States Marine
On liquid diets, in New York Herald Tribune (29 December 1960).
“Mix together saltpetre, luru vopo vir con utriet [powdered charcoal], and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the method of mixing them.”
Source: De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae et de Nullitate Magise, Ch. 11, in a reference to Bacon's knowledge of making gunpowder, as quoted by Thomas Thomson, The History of Chemistry (1830) Vol. 1, p. 36.
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