your own address...... / pop tart fire - was it strawberry?

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Garmon pgarmon@... on Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 11:50:56

Message: with access to the internet and a microwave in the breakroom,

there should be no more boring nights in dispatch!

there is a webpage that goes over pop-tart combustion located

@ http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/

brief intro " Last year, an article by well-known newspaper columnist

Dave Barry noted that Kellogg's Strawberry Pop Tarts (SPTs) could

be made to emit flames " like a blow torch " if left in a toaster

too long. Given previous work in the field of food-entertainment

(see Fun With Grapes - A Case Study), it was obvious that this

was a new frontier that requires further exploration. The present

work describes our independent verification and experience with

SPT-based combustion "

" FUN WITH GRAPES - A CASE STUDY "

http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/grape/

Garmon KG4DWM

Commnications

FAUPD Boca Raton FL

>===== Original Message From 911consoleegroups =====

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On the drive next to the toaster was a glowing red mass. In talking

to my ex-wife I found she was heating up a pop-tart and the sugar

coating on it had caught on fire. She wisely had killed all the

breakers and left the house. One of

>the fire investigators asked me how she was and I said fine.

He

>then asked if she had a good sense of humor. I told him that

she did. He then went up to her and asked what flavor the pop-tart

was. When she told him, he immediately said, " Oh those are the

worst ones...... " For a couple of years, she was

>known in the fire department as the pop-tart lady.

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