Fat

Fat has become the ultimate insult in our culture. It is the last 'safe' characteristic to make fun of, unlike other physical attributes like skin color, height, or national origin.

Yes, this author realizes that she sounds like a whiny bitch, but she is merely tired of seeing fat used as an unjust vilification in so many different circumstances.

I may be fat, but I can lose the weight. You'll always be a jerk.

The FAT file system is very simple, and it has no corruption prevention methods like NTFS or HPFS.

When Windows 95 was released, it had an updated form of FAT called VFAT. VFAT allowed 255 character filenames with embedded spaces, multiple periods and case preservation. The old FAT was restricted to the old 8.3 format, or 8 characters, a period, and a 3 character file extension. VFAT also creates a directory that is readable by FAT-era devices.

Tracklisting:

My Dad Sucks (0:36) - Very loud, very angry teenage rant, finishing as quickly as it opens, almost before the listener has time to breathe. Try and guess what the lyrics are about.

Mr. Bass (2:06) - Twisted surf rock with bizarre lyrics about fishing. Contains the memorable line: "They were biting at an alarming rate / Mr. Bass, he was irate."

I Like Food (0:18) - "I like food, food tastes good / I like food, food tastes good / Juicy burgers, greasy fries / Turkey legs and raw fish eyes / Teenage girls with ketchup too / Get out of my way or I'll eat you / I like food, food tastes good / I like food, food tastes good / Gonna turn dining back into eating / I like food, food tastes good / I like food, food tastes good."
(The Descendents were not an overtly political band.)

Hey Hey (1:33) - The foetus of punk-pop. Milo perfects his early, booming vocal style over a brutally simple three-chord punk backing.

Weinerschnitzel (0:13) - More warped, food-based humour: "Welcome to Der Weinerschnitzel, may I take your order please?" "Yeah, I want - TWO LARGE COKES, TWO LARGE FRIES, CHILI-CHEESE DOG, LARGE PEPPER SUPER DELUXE WITH CHEESE AND TOMATO!" "You want bill sperm with that?" "NO!"

Global Probing (1:07) - Classic hyperspeed teen angst singalong. "It takes a long time to get what you want, no matter how hard you try..."

Fat was the band's first release with singer Milo Aukerman, and stands in stark contrast to the much gentler surf-pop of their only previous release, the "Ride the Wild" single. They grew up somewhat before the Milo Goes to College album, so this is definitely the loudest and most "hardcore" of their early records.

Besides sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami, yet another taste has been found and researchers said that it would be likely to find even more in the future.

The taste is fat. Yes, fat. Researchers had been debating on whether fat is a taste or not for half a decade, and according to Newsweek, they decided. Purdue University, after much speculation concluded that fat is not only a taste carrier (carries and amplifies taste), but a taste all its own, meaning that receptors on the tongue pick up the prescence of fat as one of the elemental tastes.

This is likely the reason why french fries, meat, potato chips, and the like are so tasty-- they have a taste all their own (this research comes hot on the heels of another study that found that the taste of fat will cause people to synthesize fat within their own bodies-- just tasting cream cheese will cause one to gain fat!). This knowledge may be used to explain why fat-free versions of food just don't taste as good and may help us eventually find ways to improve fat-free food.

Sources:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/12/011204073223.htm
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/html/alumni/spr2002/tasteimprovement.htm

Fat (?), n. [See Vat, n.]

1.

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24.

2.

A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

Hebert.

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Fat, a. [Compar. Fatter (?); superl. Fattest (?).] [AS. f&aemac;tt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr. pi to swell.]

1.

Abounding with fat

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

2.

Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson.

Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10.

3.

Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

4.

Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.

5.

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift.

6. Typog.

Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.

Fat lute, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.

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Fat (?), n.

1. Physiol. Chem.

An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.

⇒ Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found, as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc.

2.

The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

3. Typog.

Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

Fat acid. Chem. See Sebacic acid, under Sebacic. -- Fat series, Fatty series Chem., the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. -- Natural fats Chem., the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.

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Fat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. atting (?).] [OE. fatten, AS. fttian. See Fat, a., and cf. Fatten.]

To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak.

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Fat, v. i.

To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. Mortimer.

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