Quark: not just for breakfast anymore

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Thu Dec 5 14:53:19 CST 1996


On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Tod Mahony wrote:

> >From page 569 of GR, which of these things is not like the others:
> 
> 	"Townspeople break out beer, wine, bread, Quark, sausages."
> 
> Can anyone explain to me that fourth picnic item?
> 

According to _A Gravity's Rainbow Companion_, a "quark" is "curds packed
sausage-style in tubes".

Joe





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