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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I prefer my mustard solid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait? I am confused wasn't that gas called Mustard because of the color?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Based on smell.

Sulfur mustards are viscous liquids at room temperature and have an odor resembling mustard plants, garlic, or horseradish, hence the name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas

One of my relatives got hit with it in WWI. As a result, in later years, he went blind and had lung issues that ended up killing him way too young. He (and apparently others in his company) had to fight to get disability.

I was told the enemy would first fire a gas that would induce vomiting so soldiers would have to take off their gas masks to puke just in time for them to fire the really bad shit. I haven't verified that detail though so maybe it got mixed up hearing it third hand. He died years before I was born.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

From german wikipedia: It was a practice called Buntschießen, ~ multi-color shooting, as German chemical weapons were color-coded. One would start with "Maskenbrechern" ~mask-breakers (blue) , designed to force soldiers to remove their masks, which were then followed by lung-affecting agents (green).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Very interesting thank you for the info!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you thought mustard in gas form was bad, then wait until you hear about mayonnaise in plasma form...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bose-Einstein condiments will shook you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I personally prefer quark-gluon toppings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hear you can get those on DS9

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Look one man's weird ear rubs is another alien's umloks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not much of a mustard guy myself, but I'll take a whiff of Sriracha gas if you got any.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

You provide the Sriracha and I'll provide the Sriracha gas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If you want to be fancy there's Dijon Mustard Gas

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Must be Dijon mustard gas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Condiment warfare