A salt of cyclamic acid formerly used as an artificial sweetener, especially:
Sodium cyclamate.
Calcium cyclamate.
It is funny... these cyclamates, they sound positively evil. Machine-like. Alien.
I love how, in The Matrix, all of the machine hardware is portrayed to be so insectoid. Insects are as alien as our imaginations can conceive. Spiders, for some reason, bring such a deeply rooted cultural horror to us. It's fascinating.
But back to the Mighty Mouse vitamins... cyclamate free is the way to be. It's almost like the phenylalanine that phenylketonurics can't process, found in Aspartame (aka. Nutrasweet... a nice and friendly name there), but phenylalanine is just plain incomprehensible. Not as alien as 'cyclamate.' Ooh.
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Date: 2003-11-11 06:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-11-14 06:12 pm (UTC)AFAIK, no.
I found an image of Mighty Mouse Vitamins online somewhere, and on the box it said that.
I just thought it was funny.
I never heard of cyclamates before, but it sounded so dangerous, like:
Mighty Mouse Vitamins contain no phencyclidine...
That's PCP.
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Date: 2003-11-14 07:48 pm (UTC)A salt of cyclamic acid formerly used as an artificial sweetener, especially:It is funny... these cyclamates, they sound positively evil. Machine-like. Alien.
I love how, in The Matrix, all of the machine hardware is portrayed to be so insectoid. Insects are as alien as our imaginations can conceive. Spiders, for some reason, bring such a deeply rooted cultural horror to us. It's fascinating.
But back to the Mighty Mouse vitamins... cyclamate free is the way to be. It's almost like the phenylalanine that phenylketonurics can't process, found in Aspartame (aka. Nutrasweet... a nice and friendly name there), but phenylalanine is just plain incomprehensible. Not as alien as 'cyclamate.' Ooh.