This is filtered costco heavy cream. It contains lots of blobs of snot-like material— “snot-like” is a highly technical chemical term but for purists you might say “mucinous”. Unlike snot though…This does not dissolve in cream nor water. It is not broken down by chlorine dioxide in 30 min. Here are the trials:

Directly from filtered cream

After sitting and prodding it about a little. ( BTW I didn’t want to touch this stuff then realized we’d been drinking it for a couple months thinking it was milk clots.)

After a minute of air and prodding.

This is the blob on a blue cotton surgical towel after 30 min. No change in form. The color is just light from kitchen. It looks white.

Another blob under uv flashlight.

This was another blob from same quart. We buy 6 quarts at a time. They all have these blobs. In this case I made it into a pyramid to show how solid it was.

That pyramid is nearly 3 cm tall with a sharpish defined point made from cream blob. It appears white to naked eye.

So if you watch the video above, i did several “kitchen lab trials. On the top of the blue cotton surgery towel is a plain mass after filtration from cream and rinsing in water in the strainer. It poured in as a blob and stayed together during washing and straining. Below that I took other blobs and subjected them to either chlorine dioxide activated, CD + DMSO, or plain 5% HCL. To simulate stomach reaction I split the HCL-only blob in half and added 1/2 to a shot glass with more HCL (like the fluid would be in a stomach although different concentration of HCL). I know the Ph is 1-2 in stomach acid but don’t have handy ph test strips. No its not fat. No this isnt failure of homogenization. I’m from Iowa. I grew up drinking raw cream from the cow across the street. From udder to me. This is not natural cream. And if it is the Gellan used as thickening agent it doesn’t seem to dissolve in water or HCL so it is indigestible and acting as a mass in your stomach.

Now I have covered with a mixing bowl for the night to keep nosy kittens who should not be on the counter ever but who knows what they do while we sleep. Until bigger they are stuck in at night and this is a makeshift lab. 😳😎. The report of follow up willl be in am.

Gellan gum on label is a thickener. If that is what is doing it I still don’t like it and it should not be in cream.

🇫🇷The French are giving up hygiene due to inflation: cleanliness comes at a high price

The economic crisis in France has led to shocking changes in the daily lives of citizens - almost half of the population is forced to save on basic hygiene products.

◼️According to local media, 47% of the French - almost every second resident of the country - have refused to buy hygiene products and cosmetics due to rising inflation.

The situation is so serious that 23% of citizens have stopped communicating with family and friends due to the inability to maintain basic hygiene. They simply do not have the means to buy such basic goods as soap and shampoo.

❌Almost a third of the French (31%) have stopped going out for walks because of the unpleasant smell, which is a direct consequence of saving on hygiene products.

❓Citizens of a G7 country can't afford a bar of soap?

My comment : Think how many bars of soap could have been purchased for the cost of six Caesar Howitzers and all the other armaments the French paid for and sent to Ukraine. And, I’m pretty sure the Russians aren’t interested in capturing or destroying personal hygeine products, but they were very capable at destroying all the military pieces. So I’d suggest, just as good economics, to stop funding senseless wars and start buying body wash.