Being Mr. Kenny

How do they make the fondant centres of after-dinner mints? Well they use an enzyme. To a tablet of (mostly) pure sugar (sucrose) is added some of the enzyme invertase, which turns the sugar into that lovely gooey whatsitsname we all know and love and are allergic to (some of us, probably, not that I know anyone who is, mind you). This tablet is then wrapped in that most holy substance, chocolate. The whole thing is then left for a few weeks while the enzyme works its magic. Then, the enzyme is viciously killed by terrible, violent ionizing radiation captured out of the sun itself. This last part I made up.

See it in much more boring detail on the Something or other website. Although there are some quite pretty pictures.

As you may have guessed, my essay has reached waffling point. This is the mental temperature at which essays stop flowing naturally and must be hacked away at using the axe of waffling until such a point is reached where it is possible to change the subject, in the hope that the examiner has forgotten what you were on about. Once the subject is changed, one can write without the need for waffle for a few more paragraphs.

It is much like the temperature at which a river freezes to become a glacier. Axes (or should that be axen? no wait, that’s only with ox) must then also be used to ‘help it along’ until the next major global climate change occurs. Which, if scientists are to be believed, is coming upon us all too quickly.

Take a look at this guy. Hi there, Nick, thanks for helping me out with my essay. Oops, his name is Dan, not Nick. These pictures are amazing.