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

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 7361

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- 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.


whoops, sorry, Rita, I posted before I read.....