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[zustifer]

This is sort of weird: I was just eating some corn chips with flaxseeds in them, and I noticed after a while of eating them in front of my monitor that the seeds generally seemed to align their long axes in the same direction. See? Isn't that odd? I can't think how the seeds could be deployed in a way that would keep them directionally uniform, or how cornmeal could have a property that would hold them there.
Anyone know?

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[jwgh]

I think if the dough is put through rollers then the flax seeds would tend to point along the axis of the rollers, while if they were extruded through a long, thin opening they would tend to point in the direction that the chips were being extruded in. Does that make sense?

[jwgh]

One could probably set up an experiment with cookie dough and, hmm, something vaguely cylindrical or needle-shaped -- dates maybe? -- and a rolling pin to see how it works out.

Hmm, cookies. I will think upon it.