From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.cooks Title: Re: Sucrose Isomer, anyone?? Article-I.D.: floyd.251 Posted: Tue Jun 8 09:29:45 1982 Received: Wed Jun 9 00:58:35 1982 References: eiss.335 Something called levorotatory (lefthanded) sugar was discussed at great length about a year or so ago in the ARPANET HUMAN-NETS mailing list (newsgroup). The idea is that it's a molecular mirror image of the typical dextrorotatory sugar; it tastes good but your body doesn't recognize it. For you hackers out there, imagine trying to recognize characters with bad parity... If there is sufficient interest, maybe someone (not I) could dredge out a copy of the discussion and post it here. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491