Glucose (pronouced "glose") isn't actually any different from ordinary sucrose. It's just what they call it in England, where for a long time the only one allowed to refine sugar (not personally, you understand, but in an extended sense) was the Duke of Gloucester.
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He was famous for polishing his coat of arms to a gloucessy finish.
Posted by: rone | October 14, 2006 at 02:11 PM
You can take jokes like that and get loucest, rone.
Posted by: ben wolfson | October 14, 2006 at 02:13 PM
Yes, those jokes go from bad to Worcester.
Posted by: rone | October 14, 2006 at 02:58 PM
So, you hear about the farmer who strung a bell necklacewise from one of his cows? Yeah, he did it leicester approach go unnoticed.
Posted by: ben wolfson | October 14, 2006 at 03:00 PM
But the Duke of Sucroster was allowed to force meat into a tube of intestine, making sucrosages.
Posted by: Nakku | October 14, 2006 at 03:06 PM
making sucrosages
ITYM "getting him convicted on grounds of gross indecency".
Posted by: ben wolfson | October 14, 2006 at 03:07 PM
Ummmmm actually glucose is a 6-membered sugar ring while sucrose is made up of a glucose ring joined to a fructose (which is a five membered ring if anyone is counting).
Posted by: DrJ | October 15, 2006 at 01:55 AM
What’s sucrose for the goocrose is sucrose for the galnonder.
Posted by: standpipe b | October 15, 2006 at 12:51 PM
Best. Poucest. Ever.
Posted by: m. leblanc | October 15, 2006 at 02:46 PM
beicest.
Posted by: mcmc | October 15, 2006 at 05:00 PM
It's time we laid this conceit to reicest.
Posted by: standpipe b | October 15, 2006 at 08:18 PM
Though a year late, my sincerest British applesauce.
Posted by: KM | October 03, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Oh very well done indeed.
Posted by: ben wolfson | October 03, 2007 at 10:30 PM