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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?

Comments

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

To what precision does the alignment occur?

[graydon.livejournal.com]

I imagine the dough is kneaded and pressed with devices that have a definite orientation to their actions, before the chips are cut into triangles and baked. Or the seeds are deposited from nozzles that exert some regularizing force.

Or they are magical homing seeds, straining to return to the source of their power.

[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?

[diaryarena.livejournal.com]

Sample size too small. Eat several gross more.