Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Yo quiero

Following a link to a link to a link led me to "Cleaning pennies with taco sauce" on Cruftbox.
When I was in high school back in the 80s, I worked at Taco Bell. Work was not really tough at Taco Bell, so I had lots of time to goof off. One of the things I discovered was that the hot sauce would clean pennies. I've showed the trick to people many times over the years, but never really understood why it works so well.

I looked on the internet and found a wide variety of explanations from the silly ideas, like the idea the somehow hydrochloric acid is forming to the more reasonable ideas involving the acid already in the sauce. None of them seemed to make complete sense to me.

I decided to do a little investigative journalism and find out.
|| Andrew, 4:00 PM || ||

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