I mean, you can heat any old rock & make it look like that ... what I'm saying is that every rock, when heated to 500+°C, will gain delicious orange flavour, but scientists don't want you to know that!!
I wanna taste that blue Cherenkov tang
Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.
What I'm saying is people have tasted these things.
I think it was when we got to toxic metals and radioactive elements that chemists where forced to stop tasting their discoveries.
I hope it went: Safety person: Hey! Stop tasting any elements or new molecules. It's been getting people severely sick or killed!
Chemist: "Ugh, fine, but ima bitch about it the whole time"
I believe the guy who tasted plutonium did so accidentally when the powder got in his mouth. The metallic taste probably has something to do with how radioactive it is.
Or the fact that it’s, y’know, a metal
I can still huff them though, right? How else will I know when my reaction is done?
What about butt-chugging them?
Demon core has entered the chat?
Demon buttplug
The food colouring they add to the orange juice (from those pods) makes it actually taste better!
...blue raspberry gatorade...
I wanted to say the same - that blue color reminds me of blueberry with some mint for freshness!
I was about to say that in the 40s and 50s someone ~~probably~~ taste it.
The best way to tell precisely how spicy your rock is, is to taste it. That's just basic science, if you ask me.
Zomg, where are all the warning labels???
Given that lead acetate is sweet, would plutonium acetate do the same?
anyone wants to help me set up a charity where we give "last meals" to terminal patients using toxic ingredients just for them to describe how they taste?
Fun fact: a gram of plutonium contains about 20 billion calories. Yum.
And it goes straight to my hips. By which I mean the bone marrow in my pelvis.
These hips don't lie : you got cancer
Hey, sexy bone-marrow pelvis, shake them atomic gains!
(OK, but like, if I produced synthetic plutonium I would make the box look like a chocolate box. Those workers & engineers deserve to have a fun work environment, engage in some shenanigans, make an oopsie from time to time.)
Why the pelvis specifically? How did it get there? What were you doing with it?
If you eat just one bite you'll never have to eat again for the rest of your life!
Not dietal calories.
The calorie numbers we assign to food, measure how much energy our body extracts from them when eaten.
In this context, plutonium is closer to 0
If we instead want to measure the actual total physical energy content of materia, we would turn to E=mc^2, telling us that a gram of anything has about 20 million kcal, no matter if its plutonium or diet coke. which is a slightly less useful value on food labels :D
Technically it measures how much you can heat up a known volume of water if you burn the food. We have no way of measuring how much of that energy released by combustion actually gets absorbed and translated to ATP in the body, but it’s the best estimation we have of the relative energy content of foods.
There’s some carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that our bodies don’t seem to convert to energy (or only partially convert) but still technically contain “calories” because they’re combustible. Sugar alcohols, fiber, etc.
Plutonium doesn’t combust, but it would heat up water in a calorimeter. Really the test method’s applicability kind of falls apart when you start testing undigestible materials.
Plutonium actually does combust^1^. Even worse, it's pyrophoric^2^. I couldn't easily find kcal/g though.
I did a little digging. The heat of decay (so plutonium 238 just sitting around, not burning) is about .48 kcal/hr per gram. So if we were able to convert that energy to ATP like we do carbohydrates, eating about 300g of plutonium would be like eating a twinkie (150kcal) every hour. In about 88 years the energy output of that plutonium would have reduced to about a half-twinkie per hour.
Assuming you need 2000 kcal per day to maintain weight, that’s only 83 kcal per hour needed. So, if you could survive eating it and actually utilize the energy generated, you’d be set for life on food after eating less than 300g. We’d have to come up with a dosing schedule or you’d have to work out pretty hard as a young person to keep from getting fat.
The heat of combustion for plutonium based on a very cursory search (take it with a grain of salt) is about 1 kcal/g. So assuming your body could oxidize it, you’d get a one-time burst of about 2 twinkies worth of energy immediately upon eating that 300g.
Equivalent-level of fun fact: 1 gram of hay contains that much calories too!
No wonder cows are so fat
We need a cosmological law dictating harmful to humans = boring-looking. I mean, it isn't just plutonium, look at uranium yellowcake! It's lemon flavouring!
that looks like a sponge x3
It looks like the underside of a microfiber towel
Yellowcake, sponge... lemon flavoured sponge cake?
Isn't it just that color because it's hot? Like, if you cooled those off to room temperature, wouldn't they be metallic gray?
Please reconsider
Wtf, no, you should not lick boron, fucking ever. Go lick a piece of lead, it's better for your health
And here I thought plutonium looked like this:
Kinda, in solution different oxidation states make pretty colors... 
if you can wait a few million years, after few decay steps it turns into lead, which is known to be sweet
This whole image is metal as fuck \m/
Yes, it does look delicious.
But I can't help but think about this being the consequences of dying everything we eat unholy colors. Maybe radioactive material wouldn't be so tasty looking if we didn't give kids candy that looks like radioactive material.
What would happen if you played hockey with that?
It is for sure delicious, but those who tested, never said it
Deliciously ever-hot orange pie
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