Mrs. Bon's Transitory Meal (was: Thermodynamics & Wizarding

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 7354

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
wrote:

> Oh, wouldn't this be the *best* diet plan ever?
> Mrs Bon's Transitory Meal Replacement System (R)

Robert Heinlein invented it in one of his novellas. MAGIC INC if I 
recall correctly. The narrator is a businessman who can't afford to 
be less mentally sharp after lunch than in the morning, so he orders 
the beer that costs more because a wizard put a vanishing spell on 
the alcohol in it (so it vanishes about the time the beer reaches 
his stomach). He lunches with a female [City Council member?] and 
observes that she orders all her items off the vanishing side of the 
menu.

While this would work for craving the TASTE of chocolate, and I 
suppose could be accompanied by eating ice cubes or such to keep the 
stomach from feeling empty, it won't work for getting the sugar 
high or fat tranquilizer or other drug-type effects that people count 
on getting from food.