{"id":979,"date":"2008-11-09T02:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=979"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:22:56","slug":"chocolate-ninja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Ninja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas comes early at the Grille. We have a brand new (powerful) triple-headed, Hamilton Beach milkshake machine bringing our current working total up to five mixers. Of course, the rate-limiting step is still the rate at which milkshakes can be scooped. but this makes possible a mechanical efficiency when multiple employees coordinate tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Two hours of quiet. No milkshakes ordered and I was left doing random prep in the short interval. The rush didn&#8217;t come until 11:30 and didn&#8217;t let up. Thirty shakes in a straight line. All the mixers were occupied. And my hands, holding the cup, were frozen as the cold steel developed frost. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know it, but I was losing grip. The cup slipped axially. Static friction was overcome. It started to spin on its frost-covered base. Luscious chocolate milkshake with centrifugal force escaped the cup in all directions as the colloid was forced up the side of the container. <\/p>\n<div class='center'>(CHOCOLATE EXPLOSION!)<\/div>\n<p>It was like a Cocoa Puffs commercial. I ended up with a line of brown across my apron and shirt. I looked like I had been slashed across the chest by a chocolate ninja.  Everything else in the plane perpendicular to the rim of the cup was also splattered. Including Hope, standing nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas comes early at the Grille. We have a brand new (powerful) triple-headed, Hamilton Beach milkshake machine bringing our current working total up to five mixers. Of course, the rate-limiting step is still the rate at which milkshakes can be scooped. but this makes possible a mechanical efficiency when multiple employees coordinate tasks. Two hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}