"There are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material," says Gregory Weiss, professor of chemistry and molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of California Irvine.
You get to sit among out-of-work actor friends and remind yourself you're one of the lucky ones; you're actually in employment as an actor, rather than being a chugger, or a receptionist, or signing on and spending the day smoking weed, debating if it's worth dressing up as a gummy bear and serving vodka shots at an all-night bar for the minimum wage, because at least you'll be "in character".
"If I want to eat gummy bears, I will eat gummy bears.
Marie Smith, growing up there, knew there was a particular word in Eyak, her language, for the silky, gummy mud that squished between her toes.
In a spare and remarkably uncomfortable dining room that at night you can see glowing from the sidewalks of Columbus Circle, Robert offers corporate food of the most anodyne variety: tasteless tomato sauces over gummy pastas ($15 to $26), rubbery scallops ($25), wooden chicken ($21), a pan-roasted breast of Pekin duck that might have been created out of tofu or modeling clay ($28).
Hans Riegel, the boss of Haribo, a confectioner that invented gummy bear sweets, was in post for 63 years.This strategic patience has proved particularly useful in two quite different businesses: newspapers and luxury goods.
Young Muslims relish sickly flavours of tobacco such as fizzyberry, gummy bear and blueberry-vanilla much as non-Muslims savour pineapple Bacardi Breezers.
Since the separated phospholipids are rather waxy or gummy solids, the term degumming was quite naturally applied to the separation.
The incisions were stitched, and the body was placed in nitre (potassium nitrate, or saltpetre) for 70 days, after which it was washed, wrapped in cotton bandages, dipped in a gummy substance, and finally coffined and entombed.
Retting, process employing the action of bacteria and moisture on plants to dissolve or rot away much of the cellular tissues and gummy substances surrounding bast-fibre bundles, thus facilitating separation of the fibre from the stem.
Enzymes secreted by B. mesentericus change the starch inside the loaf into a gummy substance stretching into strands when a piece of the bread is pulled apart.
